While planning her first cruise, Michaela Hall spent countless hours hunched over a laptop. "There has to be an easier way to get this information," she thought while scribbling tips from hundreds of web pages.Mixed within reviews and recommendations were trolls attempting to discourage new cruisers. "What is up with these people?" As an avid traveler, she couldn't understand how such animosity could come from traveling.Following that first cruise, Hall started this guide t...

This guide offers the basics of navigating the Washington metro system and its riders. With firsthand knowledge compiled by a DC resident, you'll have more confidence and less stress during your travels around the Washington, DC metro area.Inside, you'll find detailed guidance on how to use the Metro, specifics on train and station layout, and useful advice to troubleshoot issues. As a bonus, I've included insider tips that will set you apart from other travelers.

Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs.Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, th...

In Belfast Taxi the city’s taxi drivers – of all ages and from all backgrounds – tell their stories in their own words, covering everything from the beginnings of the public-hire and private-hire industries, to the dark days of the Troubles and the vital role taxis currently play in Belfast’s burgeoning tourist economy.Join Lee Henry as he tours the city in the company of the city’s drivers, including Charlie, who drove members of the press throughout the Troubles; Majella, one of ...

This is the resource book for vegetarian travelers. -- Healing Retreats. "This is a terrific and much-needed guidebook that makes traveling easy and worry-free for vegetarians. It lists and rates vegetarian restaurants and also reports on the best places to find produce." -- Society of American Travel Writers Foundation. "... a handy way to eat well on the road... celebrates the pleasures of good and healthful eating.... Frost is an engaging writer, as interested in history as in food." --...

A rich, illustrated - and entertaining -- history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the one hundred year old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks ba...

On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn't. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had induced the demand for car travel. It was a classic case of "build it and they will come," but f...

This is the first book, in a series of seven, about the adventures of the author and her husband on their sailing boat Senta. During their 'shake-down' cruise in the Mocambique channel they visited Madagascar, Zanzibar, Tanzania and Kenya before returning to South Africa.There they repaired and provisioned their yacht, Senta, for a more adventurous voyage to the Far East. Half way across the Indian Ocean, they stopped at Salamon Atoll in the Chagos Archipelago, for their first tast...

In the 1960s, many of the bus services in Scotland's Western Isles, from Lewis and Harris in the north down to Islay in the south, were operated by MacBrayne's, the company which also operated the ferry services between the islands and the mainland. At the start of the 1970s, however, their bus operations were taken over by Highland Omnibuses, part of the Scottish Bus Group, and in this book, John Sinclair, the author of the best-selling Highland Buses, takes the reader back to that time. ...

What is the allure of Antarctica?Ice? Snow? Water? Penguins?This cold, southernmost continent is an increasingly popular tourist destination. It's vast landscape of ice, snow and wildlife attracts nature-loving vacationers and tourists who enjoy activities such as kayaking or cross-country skiing. Others simply float through the area on-board a cruise ship. Whatever the reason people are coming to Antarctica and it's causing some controversy.Some of the subjects dis...

Fareham Revisited started out as a poem, which Michael Stephenson was inspired to write when he was reflecting on how much his home town had changed since the 1950s and 1960s. The poem and its sentiments struck a chord with so many people that he decided to write a book about Fareham that would evoke more of these memories. The book was privately published in 2004. This new revised and expanded edition will delight anyone who remembers the town in its heyday - and will also intrigue newcom...

This book was Perce's gift to his grandchildren for his eightieth birthday.Following his boyhood dreaming he describes his many voyages around New Zealand, to the islands of the South Pacific, solo return across the Tasman Sea and elsewhere. His observations about people, places, boats and the sea convey to the reader an unusually acute understanding of of the fascination of cruising in small boats.Starting from days and nights cruising on the Tauranga harbour in a 10 foot ...