These pocket dictionaries give business and vacation travelers everything they need for a smooth, successful trip. Organized by subject, the traveler can quickly find the vocabulary relevant to the situation, whether transportation, hotels, meals, shopping, post offices and banks, sports, or health care, accompanied by a pronunciation guide. At the end of each phrase book is a 2,000-word mini-dictionary. Fully updated from the original editions to reflect currency changes such as the Euro and new vocabulary such as e-tickets.

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This ebook is a handy and usable travel guide to Florence. It was adapted for the Kindle from wikitravel.org*, which was named by Time magazine as one of the 50 best websites of 2008. This ebook has been prepared by Dolphin books specifically for the Amazon Kindle, and includes careful formatting and a hyperlinked table of contents.This ebook contains no advertising. Dolphin books is not paid to endorse any products or services.Among other things, this guide provides:information about travelling to from and within Florenceuseful telephone numberslists of events, landmarks, museums, and things to doinformation on shopping, dining, drinking, and hotels*wikitravel.org does not endorse this ebook nor any other product.

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Travel Roundup: Best Travel Series of the Year, 2008. Hooper, Brad (author). FEATURE. First published September 15, 2008 (Booklist). We select the Little Black Travel Books as our travel guide series of the year. The main reasons for designating these guides as best of the year are their portability and user friendliness. (The spiral binding allows the reader to keep the book open to a certain page.) Individual volumes are small enough to fit into a pocket, but in terms of helpfulness, they are twice their physical dimensions. The other reason these guides are so worthy of praise is the fact that each volume has a neat, tidy, and nicely detailed foldout map to the particular area under discussion. The chapters in each volume correspond to the geographical areas into which the authors divide the city for the tourist. Each chapter gives basics on places to see, available art, and entertainment venues, places to eat and drink, where to shop, and where to stay. You c (more…)

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Dave describes the dark side of tourism with such comical precision that you’ll wonder why you ever bother to leave the safety of your living room. For my money, nobody has ever produced a better snapshot of the Baggage Carousel, “where passengers traditionally gather at the end of a flight to spend several relaxing hours watching the arrival of luggage from some other flight, which comes randomly spurting out of a mysterious troll-infested tunnel that is apparently connected to another airport, possibly in a different dimension.”
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A distinctly minor effort by the Miami Herald columnist and author of such previous successes as Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits , this guide works too hard for comic effect. There are strained references to inedible airline food, a “Five Booger” ranking from the “Michelin Guide to How Snotty a Restaurant Is,” (more…)

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Thirty destinations are presented for each month, with 11 covered in depth. Tuscany, Italy, is recommended for October, when the grape and olive harvests take place, and when porcini mushrooms, prized truffles and other specialties appear on regional menus. The listing includes a six-day itinerary on the “Chianti Trail,” from Florence to Siena. –USAToday.com

Answering the difficult questions that today’s adventurous travelers ask-where’s the best place for a beach holiday in March? What are my options if June is the only time I can take a holiday? I’m getting married in November, where would be the perfect place for a honeymoon?-this is the perfect book for anyone planning a vacation or a longer adventure. Find out about the best time to go to each destination, the best places to see, and the best things to do. Whatever you want to do, you can-and in any month of the year.
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(60min. 2008) East Africa hosts the greatest variety and abundance of wild animals found anywhere on earth. Enjoy up close the famous Big Five: elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard, as well as an impressive number of species including mammals, birds, reptiles and marine life. Witness one of the most exciting natural spectacles on earth, The Great Wildebeest Migration, along with other extraordinary scenes featuring East Africas spectacular wildlife in rare and unusual footage gathered from six years of professional filming in the region.Journey into the world of the Big Cats and their prey as they go about the business of survival. Witness scenes of lions interacting with cubs and pride members, hunting for buffalo and with their zebra kill, cheetah hunting and with kills, and leopard with a meal in a tree. Also be treated to classic safari images of river and water hole scenes with hippos, elephants bathing, dramatic migration river crossings, crocodiles with pr (more…)

About the author’s travels from Tibet to New Delhi, with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others.

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About the Actor

Sheryl Brakey is an award winning videographer and editor, with over fourteen years of scuba diving experience. She holds degrees in Biology and International Relations. She has traveled the world acquiring material for both her underwater and travel videos. Her goal is to share these experiences with you, so that you can learn and understand more of our world.

‘Exploring Tibet’ tours Tibet from Lhasa to Kathmandu, Nepal showing us how Tibet looks today. It gives us a glimpse of a area of the world which has long fascinated us. Tibet has been known as the mysterious isolated Buddhist kingdom locked away in the Himalaya Mountains, on the roof of the world. Not until the mid 1980s was Tibet open to visitors. ‘Exploring Tibet’ starts with the history of the Tibetan people, their early kings and how Buddhism came to Tibet. Cross the Yarling River by small boat to the ancient monastery of Samye where the ‘Great Debate’ was held between I (more…)

This amazing video covers the magnificent culture, history and beauty of China. This is your one-stop guide to China -one of the world’s oldest civilizations and an extraordinary travel destination. And the videos are indexed so you can plan your tour. SPECTACULAR VIDEOS – You will visit dramatic sites including the Great Wall of China and the Temple of Heaven. Explore its leading cities with their incredible shopping and nightlife. Beijing is its capital and site of the 2008 Olympics and here you will see its most famous sites including the Forbidden City, where the emperor ruled the Middle Kingdom. See Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, the famous Terracotta Warriors near Xian and the remarkable city of Shanghai, which has more skyscrapers than New York. See cute Pandas, explore its vast countryside including beautiful Guilin and take a soul-searching trip to mysterious Tibet.ONE OF THE WORLD’S TOP TOURIST DESTINATIONS – China has a treasure-chest of stunning histor (more…)