Smaller and lighter than the most compact laptop, Cybercafes is an indispensable guide for the traveler who wants to stay connected without the weight, hassle, and responsibility of lugging expensive computer machinery around the world. It's an extremely user-friendly little book. Organized by geographic regions, it also provides an index listing for dozens of cafés by name.

The Blue Guide travel series comes highly recommended by Untourists. The Vienna guide will show you why Vienna is a fascinating place to visit for anyone interested in urban history, architecture, and the arts.

This is a summer hiking guidebook for recreational walkers and their families. The alpine setting is breathtaking and the book includes the use of cableways in order to reach some of the most fascinating mountain trails. Special base villages are chosen along with recommendations for chalet-hotels. If you love to walk and enjoy the outdoors, Walking Easy in the Swiss and Austrian Alps will provide a great hiking vacation.

Explore the inexpensive places to dine when visiting any one of these three famous and historic European cities. 3 maps. " We used this book in all three cities and found it to be the most useful guide that we had to the cuisines of the regions. As a result we enjoyed many interesting and delicious meals and restaurants. Maps are most useful in locating the places."

The author, president of Hungary's National Cultural Fund and a former dissident, has spent his life observing the Budapest scene. This book has been praised by the New York Times, and also comes recommended by Idyll's Hungarian staff representative.

Explore the inexpensive places to dine when visiting any one of these three famous and historic European cities. 3 maps. " We used this book in all three cities and found it to be the most useful guide that we had to the cuisines of the regions. As a result we enjoyed many interesting and delicious meals and restaurants. Maps are most useful in locating the places."

Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity.

Hemingway's vibrant portrait of Paris in the 1920s chronicles the sights, sounds, and tastes of Paris in a bygone era, not mention offering readers a view of his life and the people that populated his expatriate world — Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and other literary luminaries.

Markets of Provence tours the open-air food markets of seven French towns while exploring the role of the market in Provencal life and providing travelers with dozens of insider tips. The authors present information on regional and seasonal specialties, wines, and restaurants and picnic spots.

A spectacular pictorial journey through one of the most beautiful regions of France, featuring 100 color photos.

A fascinating book on German culture. Ideal for those who want to deepen their understanding of the Germans prior to their Untour!

"This little work aims to combine the instructive features of a book of travels with the interest of a domestic tale." -Mary Mapes Dodge

It’s hard to believe that the author of this children’s classic was an American who never actually set foot in Holland. Nevertheless, her lively imagination and attention to detail enabled her to write a lovely story that capture the feeling of life on the frozen canals, bringing the feeling of long-ago Holland to life. Best of all, it is set right in and around Leiden!

A sometimes cynical, sometimes comical observation of the Netherlands, its culture and its inhabitants, based on the authors’ experience of living there for a combined total of 22 years. We’ve been told that the Dutch not only find this book heartily amusing, but accurate as well!

"Authoritative and opinionated, this series can't be beat," extols the Chicago Tribune of the Rough Guide's lively collection of guidebooks, including their first-edition Holland manual. Looking beyond truckloads of tulips and wistful windmills, these three rough guiders--Dunford, Holland (he should know his stuff) and Lee--take you mucking through the mud to the Frisian Islands, biking to the Biesboschmuseum nature reserve, lurking around the fish houses of Urk, and gulping Gulpener beer in Gulpen.

Includes a wealth of general information about bicycling in Holland, as well as descriptions of scenic excursion and route maps.

This is a wonderful story about Hollywood TV producer falling in love with Tuscany after his wife surprises him by buying a 300 year old farmhouse for them to restore in the region. His funny yet informative narritive tells his story of being seduced by the beauty and culture of Tuscany while simultaneously dealing with bureaucratic headaches and local nuances.

We highly recommend this book which concentrates on the area in which Idyll’s apartments are located.

An in-depth view of the delights and idiosyncracies of the region and its culture.

Going to Tuscany? Don't leave without Carla Capalbo's 'The Food Lover's Guide to Tuscany,' a 383-page paperback crammed with essential and fascinating information, not only on foods, but on restaurants, food markets, and festivals, artisan shops, and olive oil and wine producers. A chapter is devoted to each of the thirteen distinct sub-regions of Tuscany for which road maps, intended to help you plan your trip, are provided.

This classic volume is a glorious tribute to one of the most beautiful regions in the world. The Hill Towns of Italy, capturing in luminous photographs the special feeling of this region, will serve as an evocative memoir for those who have had the good fortune to visit the hill towns and as an irresistible lure for those who have not yet made the pilgrimage. 60+ full-color photos.

Classic travel narrative.

This is an almost-daily record of how WWII affected a small farm in Tuscany, as the owner and tenant farmers watched and waited for the war to arrive at their doors. In the meantime, they coped and dealt with everyone else who arrived at their door--15 orphaned children, Fascist mayors, German troops, British prisoners of war, Italian partisans. All needed help and the Origo family gave what they could.

A British sculptor reflects on Tuscan culture.

An esoteric account of an American naturalist’s walk from Florence to Assisi.

Traditionally, foreign writers describing a country adopt the outsider's point of view and focus on the more quaint and amusing aspects of the locals' lives. This is particularly true of Italy, where the more exotic side of the country is maximised and the lives of people treated as being less important. Not so in Isabella Dusi's fascinating Vanilla Beans and Brodo which takes the radical (and fascinating) approach of dealing with the day-to-day lives of those who live in the beautiful Tuscan Hills. In fact, the book is subtitled Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany, and the author (who sold all she owned to travel halfway around the world and settle in the exquisite mountain eyrie of Montalcino) makes the descriptions of the seasons and countryside as evocative as one could wish, but her real subject is the people. Finding it initially difficult to be accepted into this close-knit wine community, she gradually wins their respect and friendship. Search for this title at http://www.amazon.co.uk.

In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her garden, and the intimacy of her dealings with the locals.

Work's still not completely finished on Bramasole, the Tuscan house that California-based poet and bestselling author Frances Mayes bought a decade ago and has been fixing up every summer since. Nevertheless, in Bella Tuscany, she goes out--in search of Italy and Italian life. The sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun is awash with sensual discovery, from Sicilian markets with "rainbows of shining fish on ice" to the aqueous dream of Venice "shimmering in the diluted sunlight."

Frances Mayes continues her love letter to Italy in this sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. The restoration of her home, Bramasole, is complete, but Tuscany keeps unfolding. While the earlier books chronicled her and her husband's first years in Italy, this one is less full of stories than meditations on the elements of Tuscan pleasures, accompanied by photographs that give color to the place Mayes has described so lovingly and well.

Tuscany and Umbria are famous for both their glorious scenery and their superlative cuisines--could there be a more perfect vacation than walking through the countryside, stopping to dine along the way? In this book, the authors offer readers 40 itineraries ranging from half-day walks to routes stretching over several days.

Explore the inexpensive places to dine when visiting any one of these three famous and historic European cities. 3 maps. " We used this book in all three cities and found it to be the most useful guide that we had to the cuisines of the regions. As a result we enjoyed many interesting and delicious meals and restaurants. Maps are most useful in locating the places."