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Easy-Walking Europe: Tips and Suggested Tours for the (Somewhat) Mobility Impaired. Find insightful discussion of the physical challenges of Europe and useful tips on how to minimize them. Read invaluable pointers on traveling in general and specifics on planning an overseas trip, including a reassuring timeline that lays out everything you need to do and when you should do it. Learn easy-walking principles that you can apply to anyplace you want to visit, including and beyond the places in this book. Capping off the general travel advice are chapters bursting with travel information for specific cities and their surroundings—Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, and Munich. Each chapter includes a possible travel plan (if you want detailed guidance on what to do) and information about transportation, lodging, and sightseeing in each city. Click here to order or learn more.
French Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel with Confidence in France. This information-packed mini-course concentrates on preparing readers to travel in France in a limited time by focusing on what is most useful or interesting and cutting out unnecessary vocabulary and grammar. It prepares travelers for what to expect and how to deal with it, what to say and when to say it. It’s like three books in one–a phrase book (so you know what to say), a grammar book (so you know how to say it), and a culture book (so you understand daily social expectations)–all focused on a traveler’s needs. French Survival Guide is packed with culture notes, study tips, travel hints, and reality checks galore. It includes optional exercises for practicing material from the lessons, as well as French-English and English-French dictionaries. Enjoy the inside-the-cover Survival Summaries travelers can use on the spot! Click here to order or learn more.
French Twist: A Refreshingly Frank Travel Memoir by a Modern American Puritan. There’s the fantasy of a visit to France, and then there’s the reality. See what happens when in-the-cloud dreams collide with hard truths on the ground.
When two middle-aged women leave their families behind in rural Iowa for two weeks of exploring France, they are sure to find trouble. Join Libby and Micki as they bumble their way through failing métro passes, irate policemen, continual language challenges, and endlessly baffling maps and road signs. They visit the magical sights, glimpse the brutal history, and are shocked by the sexual openness of France, all the while struggling to get things right in a country that seems to do everything backwards from what they are used to. Click here to order or learn more.
German Shepherd: A Guided Tour Through Germany and Austria with a Faithful Companion. Libby and Micki are back in Europe, this time touring Germany and Austria. Following the call of beer, pretzels, and The Sound of Music, they start off in Berlin, fly to Munich, and then brave the Autobahn through Bavaria and Austria. They stay with Libby’s beloved German “mother,” hearing her vivid first-hand accounts of life as a child refugee after WWII and then as an adult in the police state of East Germany. Their stay–and their story–weave back and forth between East and West, between past and present, in a fascinating historical overview. In Bavaria they delve into the life of King Ludwig II (the “crazy” king who might have been murdered) and battle the hordes at his fairy tale castle. In Austria they explore the glorious landscape celebrated in one of the most famous movies of all time. And through it all, despite wilting heat, incessant rain, their typical travel confusion, and recurring sleep deprivation, they get a rich taste of local life and a heaping helping of Gemütlichkeit. Click here to order or learn more.
German Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel with Confidence in Germany and Austria. A down-to-earth, bare-bones introduction to German that aims to make a trip abroad as smooth and enjoyable as possible. This information-packed mini-course concentrates on preparing readers to travel in Germany and Austria in a limited time by focusing on what is most useful or interesting and cutting out unnecessary vocabulary and grammar. German Survival Guide prepares travelers for what to expect and how to deal with it, what to say and when to say it. It’s like three books in one–a phrase book (so you know what to say), a grammar book (so you know how to say it), and a culture book (so you understand daily social expectations)–all focused on a traveler’s needs. Enjoy the inside-the-cover Survival Summaries travelers can use on the spot! Click here to order or learn more.
Italian Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel with Confidence in Italy. This book contains a lot of vocabulary, basic grammar instruction, and a healthy dose of cultural information, all in one slim volume. It concentrates on preparing readers to travel in Italy in a limited time by focusing on what is most useful or interesting and cutting out unnecessary vocabulary and grammar. Italian Survival Guide reveals what to expect and how to deal with it, what to say and when to say it. It’s like three books in one–a phrase book (so you know what to say), a grammar book (so you know how to say it), and a culture book (so you understand daily social expectations)–all focused on a traveler’s needs. It’s an information-packed mini-course! Enjoy the inside-the-cover Survival Summaries travelers can use on the spot. Click here to order or learn more.
Italian Dictionary with Phrases for Travelers: A Practical, Hands-On Resource for Actually Using Italian. An extensive tourist dictionary that breaks the rules to make it more useful. Start with key phrases (located inside the covers) and fill in with whatever words you need from the dictionary. Word entries are in easy-to-find alphabetical order and include pronunciations for virtually everything. Also includes a grammar summary and loads of help with genders, articles, plurals, and verb forms. The bulk of the book is made up of an English-Italian dictionary and an Italian-English dictionary, all in an easy-to-use format. Click here to order or learn more. Pairs well with Italian Survival Guide.