Rick Steves Amsterdam & the Netherlands by Rick Steves; Gene Openshaw

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Bike cobblestone streets, cruise on charming canals, and stop and smell the tulips: with Rick Steves on your side, the Netherlands can be yours Inside Rick Steves Amsterdam & the Netherlands you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Amsterdam and the NetherlandsRick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favoritesTop sights and hidden gems, from the Van Gogh museum and Rembrandt's home workshop, to cozy "brown" caf s How to connect with local culture: Explore Amsterdam by bicycle, sample distinctive Dutch cheeses, and chat with a friendly local over beer brewed from 1,000-year-old recipesBeat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insightThe best places to eat, sleep, and relax over a pint of beerSelf-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums Detailed maps for exploring on the goUseful resources including a packing list, a Dutch phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended readingOver 500 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you downComplete, up-to-date information on Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delft, Alkmaar and Zaanse Schans, Edam, Volendam, Marken, Hoorn, Enkhuizen, the Historic Triangle, Flevoland, Keukenhof, Aalsmeer, Leiden, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, and moreMake the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Amsterdam & the Netherlands. Spending less than a week in Amsterdam? Try Rick Steves Pocket Amsterdam. ...Show more

Rick Steves Belgium: Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp & Ghent by Rick Steves; Gene Openshaw

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Stroll through medieval squares with soaring bell towers and along quiet canals: with Rick Steves on your side, Belgium can be yours Inside Rick Steves Belgium: Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp & Ghent you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring BelgiumRick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favoritesTop sights and hidden gems, from the European Parliament and Flanders Fields to wafel trucks and popular breweriesHow to connect with local culture: Lose yourself in the art of the Flemish masters, taste fish fresh from the North Sea at the Vismarkt, and sip Trappist ales with friendly locals Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insightThe best places to eat, sleep, and relax while you indulge in a chocolate truffle (or two) Self-guided walking tours of lively town squares and inspiring museumsDetailed maps for exploring on the goUseful resources including a packing list, Dutch and French phrase books, a historical overview, and recommended readingOver 300 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you downComplete, up-to-date information on Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, and moreMake the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Belgium: Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp & Ghent. ...Show more

Rick Steves Rome 2019 by Rick Steves; Gene Openshaw

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Explore ancient ruins and view Renaissance masterpieces in this truly modern Eternal City. With Rick Steves on your side, Rome can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Rome 2019 you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Rome Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from the Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel to corner trattorias and the perfect scoop of gelato How to connect with local culture: Indulge in the Italian happy hour tradition of the aperitivo, savor a plate of cacio e pepe, or chat with fans about the latest soccer match Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and experience la dolce far niente Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and sights like the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Vatican Museums Detailed neighborhood maps and a fold-out city map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, Italian phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 500 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Annually updated information on Central Rome, Vatican City, Trastevere, and more, plus day trips to Ostia Antica, Tivoli, Naples, and Pompeii Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Rome 2019. Spending just a few days in the city? Try Rick Steves Pocket Rome. ...Show more

Rick Steves Best of England by Rick Steves

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Hit England's can't-miss art, sights, and bites in two weeks or less with Rick Steves Best of England! Rick's expert advice on what's worth your time and money Short itineraries covering the best of London, Bath, the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, Liverpool, the Lake District, and York, including Wind sor Castle, Cambridge, Oxford, Stonehenge, and more Rick's tips for beating the crowds, skipping lines, and avoiding tourist traps The best of local culture, flavors, and haunts, including step-by-step walking tours of world-class museums and atmospheric neighborhoods Trip planning strategies like how to link destinations and design your itinerary, what to pack, where to stay, and how to get around Over 400 full-color pages with detailed maps and vibrant photos Suggestions for side trips and excursions Experience England's Old-World sophistication and modern-day excitement for yourself with Rick Steves Best of England! Planning a longer trip? Rick Steves England is the classic, in-depth guide to exploring the country. ...Show more

Cereal City Guide: Paris by Rosa Park (Editor); Rich Stapleton (Editor)

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Category: Travel Guides

From the leading independent travel and style magazine Cereal comes Cereal City Guide: Paris a portrait of the French capital offering a finely curated edit on what to see and do for discerning travelers and locals alike. Rich Stapleton and Rosa Park, Cereal's founders, travel extensively for the magaz ine and were inspired to create a series of city guides that highlighted their favorite places to visit. Now, after building a loyal readership that counts on their unique, considered advice, they are relaunching the books with a fresh design and new content. Rather than a comprehensive directory of all there is to see and do, these Cereal City Guides offer instead an edit of points of interest and venues that reflect Cereal's values in both quality and aesthetic sensibility. Rich and Rosa have personally visited hundreds of venues in Paris, distilling their preferred locales down to their firm favorites. From lively, local-filled caf s to design-driven boutiques that channel the inimitable Parisian savoir faire, these are the finds that that will offer a more personal take on the city. Meticulously researched and illustrated with original photography, each guide includes: photo essays of striking images of the city an illustrated neighborhood map interviews and essays from celebrated locals such as Patrick Seguin of Galerie Patrick Seguin, artist Fr d ric Forest, and more lists of essential architectural points of interest, museums, galleries, day trips outside the city, and unique goods to buy an itinerary for an ideal day in Paris Cereal City Guide: Paris is a design-focused portrait of an iconic city, offering a distinctive look at the best museums, galleries, restaurants, and shops. Also, check out Cereal City Guide: London and Cereal City Guide: New York. ...Show more

Mr and Mrs Smith Presents the World's Sexiest Bedrooms by Smith

$60.00 NZD

Category: Travel Guides

From a rustic safari lodge to a luxurious Venetian palazzo, this is a true insider's guide to the world's finest hotels and travel experiences. This collection tells the story behind the design and decor of thirty-five rooms in the world's most desirable hotels. With reviews by trusted tastemakers, incl uding celebrity chefs, designers, and entrepreneurs, each featured room is presented alongside tips from those who have visited, with their recommendations for the unique features and experiences available at each hotel and within its surrounding area.This curated collection has been selected by Mr & Mrs Smith, the world's most discerning travel club, making it the perfect resource for those planning honeymoons, unforgettable vacations, and once-in-a-lifetime "bucket list" experiences. ...Show more

Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery USA by Alice Waters Alice Waters with Gabriel

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Category: Travel Guides

A guide to the United States' truly exemplary, organic, sustainable, and ethical restaurants. Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery: A Guide to the Truly Good Restaurants and Food Experiences of the United States is part of a series of the world's first guides to truly exemplary, organic, sustainable, and eth ical restaurants. Introduced by Alice Waters, the guide features 428 inspirational restaurants from around the United States so you can easily find exemplar restaurants near you, and enjoy sustainable, ethical, and simply good food. Also accompanied by an easy-to-use mobile-optimized website highlighting inspiring restaurants www.truthloveandcleancutlery.com. ...Show more

Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery Australia by Dupleix Jill

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Category: Travel Guides | Reading Level: 5 Cooking

Of all the qualities that distinguish a truly outstanding restaurant or food experience, perhaps truth, love and care are the most important: a passion for creating food that is so good it will never be forgotten; an environment that makes that extraordinary food taste even better; and a care for the gr ound or water from which that food is derived and the community in which it is served. Truth, Love & Clean Cutlery identifies truly exemplary restaurants and food experiences, offering a new, kinder way of choosing where to eat. It recognises the enormous efforts our most caring restaurateurs, chefs and cooks are making to reduce carbon emissions, support their communities, and make the world a better place plate by plate. Restaurants that care about these things aren't just good... they're good for you. ...Show more

New York (CITIx60 City Guides) by Victionary

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Category: Travel Guides | Series: CITIx60 Ser.

Culturally diverse and never short of surprises, New York is adored for its well-groomed glamour. Jacketed in a handsome city map drawn by Mike Perry, CITIx60 New York gives you a good, varied taste of how the city upholds its reputation as a land of opportunities and dreams. Endorsed by 60 local ambass adors, all known for their accomplishments in the creative industry, the 60 hangouts list architecture, art spaces, shops and markets, dining and nightime activities, accompanied by Google Map QR code, top tips and useful apps to ease your trip. Readers will find updated visitor info, new locations and cultural events in this revised edition. ...Show more

New Zealand's North Island 5 by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Brett Atkinson; Peter Dragicevich; Anita Isalska; Sarah A. Levin

$32.99 NZD

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet New Zealand's North Islandis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore still-seething volcanos and bubbling mud pools, pull on your boots to tramp o r kayak a Great Walk (yes, you can!) and learn how Maori culture is so much more than just rugby and the All Blacks; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of New Zealand's North Island and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet New Zealand's North Island: Colour maps and images throughout Highlightsand itinerarieshelp you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tipsto save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential infoat your fingertips- hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets- eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insightsgive you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - History, sport, cinema, literature, arts, music, the environment and wildlife, Maori culture and etiquette, legends, politics, customs, extreme sports, wine and foodie experiences, festivals Over60 maps CoversAuckland, Bay of Islands & Northland, Waikato & Coromandel, Taranaki & Whanganui, Taupo & the Central Plateau, Rotorua & the Bay of Plenty, the East Coast, Wellington and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet New Zealand's North Island,our most comprehensive guide to New Zealand's North Island, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet'sNew Zealandfor a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. Looking for just the highlights?Check out Discover New Zealand,a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions. Authors:Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Brett Atkinson, Sarah Bennett, Peter Dragicevich, Lee Slater. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 in the Favorite Travel Guide category. ...Show more

Naples - A Traveller's Reader by Desmond Seward

$27.99 NZD

Category: Travel Narratives

Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over successively by the house of Anjou, Aragon and Bourb on. Once 'the third city of Europe', today it is one of the least visited of the continent's great cities. The same bustling lively atmosphere and magnificent buildings that one finds in Paris or London exist here. This book is a topographical anthology which recreates for today's tourist the drama, the history and the life of a city in buildings and locations that still exist today. An indispensable companion, it brings the past of Naples vividly to life for the traveller of the present. Extracts from chronicles, memoirs, biographies, letters and novels refer to the most important and beautiful buildings in and around Naples, as well as the lives of travellers to and residents of this famous city. This is a guide to the vanished glories of royal Naples: the departure of the Borbone King Francis II in 1860 as the Risorgimento movement brought about unification of Italy. It records the turbulent and bloodstained days of the Angevin Queens Giovanna I and II, and the revolt led by the young fisherman Masaniello; the artistic life of the city that Petrarch knew, where Caravaggio, Ribera and Giordano painted, and which attracted such diverse visitors as Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Casanova, Goethe, Mozart, John Evelyn and Angelica Kauffman among countless others. The dazzling world of the royalty - their palaces overlooking the legendarily beautiful Bay of Naples, their court balls and ceremonies - is described as well as the pulsing, overcrowded slums of the Spanish quarter and the seafront with its tarantella-dancers, iced-melon vendors, pickpockets and throbbing Neopolitan songs. Naples is still, as it always has been, a city of challenging contrasts: sunlight and squalor, grandeur and decay, gaiety and despair. Its slums and its crime-rate have deterred many, but those who persist will discover, through this illuminating guide, the hidden glories of this famous city. ...Show more

How to Be a Better Tourist: Tips for a Truly Rewarding Vacation by Johan Idema

$27.99 NZD

Category: Travel Narratives

Vacations are made of freedom. Pure freedom. Our busy lives, full of obligations, mean that vacations may be the only times we can do whatever we want, wherever we want. So just how weird is it that we all spend that precious time doing the same things? That we descend en masse on the same cities, clust er around the same attractions and all visit the same picturesque neighborhoods that can't actually handle the influx? How to be a Better Tourist takes a fresh look at making your vacation truly worthwhile. After all, what if all your vacations seem to be getting more and more the same? What if being a tourist is suddenly no longer quite as innocent as it first seemed? Or what if your long list of must-sees in fact stresses you out? As the writer Elbert Hubbard poignantly put it, "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." Find out why you should perhaps stay at home. Understand why you also need to work while on vacation. Read why tourists should visit supermarkets and residential districts too. Our typical vacation behavior - visiting the maximum number of highlights in the minimum time - is rarely the most rewarding. How to be a Better Tourist helps you get the most out of your stay without damaging the soul of your destination. Because, ultimately, an imaginatively considered vacation is a genuinelyrewarding experience. Johan Idema is a passionate promoter of innovation in the art world. He likes innovative vacations too. ...Show more