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After perfecting their new apartment (complete with mini Parthenon) in a cosmopolitan suburb of Athens, Englishman Peter and his Greek wife Alexandra check out life in an authentic fishing village on a Greek island. They instantly fall in love with Pefki and plan to build a house there.

The city long-adored for its medieval beauty, old-timey brasseries, and corner cafés has even more to offer today. In the last few years, a flood of new ideas and creative locals has infused a once-static, traditional city with a new open-minded sensibility and energy. Journalist Lindsey Tramuta offers detailed insight into the rapidly evolving worlds of food, wine, pastry, coffee, beer, fashion, and design in the delightful city of Paris. Tramuta puts the spotlight on the new trends and people that are making France’s capital a more whimsical, creative, vibrant, and curious place.

The world is full of exciting destinations, but Turkey is full of amazing sights that will take your breath away. Turkey is a prime vacation destination and appeals to a wide range of people. This travel guide will help you to get the most from your stay in my beautiful country.

Here is the most detailed guide to the hiking, biking, and skiing options, the resorts and other places to stay, the best restaurants, what to see and do in this unforgettable region of Northern Italy.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - St. Gallen, Switzerland by Isabelle Howells offers the inside scoop on St. Gallen. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family's been attacked by a donkey, had a run-in with a death-culti, and, after a near drowning and a calamitous wedding experience involving a British spy, his own marriage is in jeopardy.

A fun listen for cat lovers everywhere: a lighthearted self-help guide to help you live more like your cat. Let your cat be your life coach. Do cats worry about their pension? Nope. Do cats take on work they don't want to do? As if! Do cats rush around hectically when they'd rather be licking their paws and looking out of the window? Please. Unplug your laptop. Throw away your alarm clock. It's time to live like your cat!

In large parts of France where they don't speak English, the reception you get in the restaurant if you say "Bonsoir, avez vous une table pour quatre s'il vous plait?" instead of mumbling in English, is night and day.

Fuerteventura is the second largest island of the Canary archipelago in the Atlantic. This unspoilt landscape is sparsely populated, lies about a hundred kilometers off the African coast and belongs politically and socially to Europe. We start exploring the island in the far north. Corralejo developed into a ferry port and within a few decades into a lively resort. A fairly large marina also shows that many residents of mainland Spain have set up their second home here. Puerto del Rosario, the island's capital, is spreading out on the eastern Atlantic coast, where shepherds used to graze herds of goats.

Raynor und Moth, seit 32 Jahren ein Paar, verlieren durch zwei Schicksalsschläge in kürzester Zeit alles, ihre Farm in Wales, ihre Lebensgrundlage, ihre Gewohnheiten, ihr soziales Umfeld - ihr Zuhause. Mit zwei Rucksäcken machen sie sich auf den Weg, eigentlich in eine beängstigende Obdachlosigkeit, aber sie gehen los mit der Hoffnung, eine Lösung zu finden. Ihr Plan: den wildesten und längsten Küstenweg Englands zu wandern, den South West Coast Path. Auf 1000 km Zeit gewinnen, den Kopf frei zu bekommen und Kraft zu sammeln.

Greater Than a Tourist - Sibiu Transylvania Romania, by Iris Matubis-Diaconescu, offers the inside scoop on Romania. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

The How Do I Move to... series are audiobooks that detail all the information you need before deciding to move abroad. The How Do I Move to France book provides information on France's demographic, social issues, housing, healthcare, cultural differences, and even how to bring your pet with you when you move.

Warum ist es am Rhein so schön? Das fragen sich Elke Heidenreich und Tom Krausz und brechen gemeinsam zu einer Reise auf, ausgestattet mit Literatur über den Rhein, mit Notizbüchern und einem Fotoapparat. Beginnend bei den beiden Quellen des Rheins in den Alpen, gelangen sie wandernd, mit Auto und per Schiff auf eine der verkehrsreichsten Wasserstraßen der Welt: "Wir wollten selber sehen, riechen, fühlen, hören, nachdenken, erfahren." Sie finden Geschichten, Ahnungen und sehr persönliche Eindrücke, manchmal schön, manchmal unbequem und immer faszinierend.

Greater Than a Tourist: Hamburg, Germany by Nicola Coutinho offers the inside scoop on Hamburg. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay.

After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca. Their adventure comes to an end with a paella feast with friends, full of bonhomie yet tinged with sadness. But returning to Scotland proves to be just as big an adventure, with quite a cultural shock in store. Welcomed back by family, the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside – the beginning of a period of challenges and change, of buying and restoring houses in the lovely Scottish countryside.

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them just fine. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, and tins of pineapple chunks---not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency.

In Movement There Is Peace is a powerful tale of travel, adventure, and unexpected faith. It begins with a doctor who walks away from her practice in order to cure her own paralyzing anxiety. Once free, she discovers that leaving is really only fleeing if there's no new direction. Could this be the reason for her husband's sudden inspiration?

The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.

When Michelle Damiani dreamed of living in Italy, she imagined her family as it was in Virginia - her husband filling every moment with work, her teenage son experimenting with sarcasm, her daughter smiling at the scent of lilacs, her baby-cheeked son methodically clicking Legos together, and herself hovering over the happiness of them all - only surrounded by ancient cobblestone alleys and the sound of ringing Italian. What she didn't know was how Italy would work to change them all.

La torre Eiffel è il simbolo di Parigi e della Francia, un monumentale gigante di ferro battuto di 324 metri che arriva direttamente dalla rivoluzione industriale. Costruita in occasione dell'EXPO 1889 di Parigi, era destinata a venire distrutta dieci anni più tardi; riuscì però a fare breccia nel cuore dei Francesi e il suo creatore, Gustav Eiffel, trovò altri modi di utilizzarla, ad esempio come laboratorio meteorologico; oggi, più di un secolo dopo, la torre si erge ancora nei cieli della capitale francese, fiero esempio dell'ingegno umano.