Eye candy for Francophiles, this beautiful hardcover volume is full of Dr. Angelika Taschen’s personal Parisian favorites- hotels, boutiques, restaurants, bars, cafés, and more. The photographs make you feel like you’re traveling along with her and her recommendations are accurate and insightful. Consider this “required reading” for your next Parisian adventure. What makes Lonely Planet great is they provide different itineraries based on budget. So if you’re looking for luxury, Lonely Planet will have you in the finest hotels and restaurants. Daniel Klein takes off to the small Greek island of Hydra. Here, he hopes to discover the secrets of old age by following the teachings of his friends, ancient philosophers, and more. No internet? No problem – you can access them offline, too, so you won't get an expensive phone bill, either. They really are your best friend when travelling on a shoestring budget. This book is a wonderful combination of travel tales, science, data and psychology, mixed in with some of Erics famous sense of humour. In his search for answers, he will teach you the key takeaways from the world’s happiest nations.

Love With A Chance Of Drowning is the travel memoir of Torre, who reluctantly leaves her corporate lifestyle to live on a sailboat with a man she just met, and their adventure across the South Pacific together. The thought that exotic travel has to break the bank is an assumption as sad as it is untrue, and long-time travel writer Tim Leffel proves it in The World’s Cheapest Destinations. Active storytelling and honest facts on not only where to go but how to travel once you get there. On The Road is a classic American travel book. It’s the semi-autobiographical story of Sal Paradise (based on Kerouac himself) & Dean Moriarty’s cross-country hitchhiking and train-hopping journey across rural America in the 1940’s. It's a pleasure to dive into this well-researched historic fiction set in Belle Epoch Bucharest over just thirteen days as 1897 draws to a close. There are elements of science fiction and fantasy here, with the plot being set off by the mysterious appearance of a time-traveling journalist whose sudden arrival contrasts the daily lives of the other characters, their quotidian business interrupted by the strange event. But the various threads of plot and character are so firmly centered in bustling Bucharest that you feel that you are there – and that the city is a character in and of itself. The Netherlands Offering a unique look into the region with a firsthand account, Under the Tuscan Sun is an excellent read before a trip to Italy.If you are anything like Peter Mayle, you will love spending A Year in Provence . This is one of the 10 travel books that take your heart to Europe I love the most because it is so close to home. Granted, I’d drive more than 8 hours to Lubéron, but Marseille, which is the capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône in Provence, is just a stone’s throw away from Mayle’s 200-year-old stone farmhouse that is the setting of this fascinating story. The area has not changed much since the novel had its first edition in 1989: goats still roam freely on the main streets of the village, and ladder snakes are right at home. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler looking for some tips, a tourist visiting Europe for the first time, or a gap year student looking to make the most of your time — Rough Guides Europe is for you. Gerald Durrell is part of an unusual family. So, when they decide to up and move to the sunny Greek island of Corfu, it was nothing out of the ordinary.

Following him through the action and eventually when he and a Spanish girl fall in love, Jordan experiences every part of the war.

Founded by Hilary Bradt in 1974, the pioneering brand is one of your favourites, having taken the top spot at the Reader Travel Awards many times in recent years. A moody, sometimes brooding, yet beautifully rendered novel captures late 19th-century Bruges. In Rodenbac's time, the city struggled with a sense of faded glory after the River Zwijn filled with sand and ceased to connect the Bruges' canals to the North Sea. The novel's protagonist meditates on the losses that haunt him much as Bruges is haunted by its own Golden Era, even as the city inspires a new generation of French and Belgian artists and composers. Europe A deep travel book, and an interesting love story, Illyrian Spring is one of the best books to read before traveling to Europe. Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes is one of the first travel books I ever read. It takes you on a walking journey with Robert and his donkey Mosestine across a mountainous region of France. Americans in particular have a unique obsession with France, both real and imagined, and New Yorker veteran Adam Gopnik taps into that Francophilia in his memoir of moving to Paris in the mid 1990s with his young family. He conjures up Jardin du Luxembourg, the famed Left Bank, the Jardin des Tuileries, Musée d'Orsay, and endless bistros as he examines the expat experience, and what makes the City of Light so endlessly special.