Traveltrendz: 15 books

Norway’s fractured coastline hides seemingly endless fjords and many with numerous crooked finger branches. It is a great destination for cruise ships offering hours of scenic cruising in very sheltered waters. The ports of call are tucked in amongst the islands or down the deepest fjords, sometimes...

Many feet have trampled Rhodes over the millennia and it had served many masters until it finally gained union with Greece only in 1947, The island is rich with historical interest from the old medieval fortress town of Rhodes with its powerful connection to the Knights Hospitallers of St John to...

This e-book brings Kefalonia right to your finger tips. It continues our very successful Landmark Visitors Guide to Kefalonia, which ran to five print editions, before the demise of the publisher. This is the full version with some modifications and is packed with information to enhance the visitor...

This is a comprehensive guide to the Greek island of Lesvos. When the authors lived on the island for a period in the late 1980's, they fell in love with it and have been regular visitors ever since. They also authored the 'Landscapes of Lesvos' , a walking and countryside guide as well as a small...

The cruise industry is now huge and getting bigger by the day.  Every cruise line out there wants you as a client and their glossy brochures and colourful web sites promise the cruise of a lifetime. To make sure it doesn’t turn into the voyage from hell you need decide on your own preferences,...

This travel guide to Tenerife, perhaps the most popular of all the Canary islands, helps visitors to get the best from their holiday. An introduction fills in the cultural and historical context, the main body details resorts, beaches, top places to visit, suggests and describes days out. Cars tour...

Lisbon, one of the oldest cities in the world, is set on seven hills overlooking the River Tagus. It is a city of charm, of cobbled streets and cafés, of trams and traditions and monuments. Two of them, Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, are World Heritage Sites but there are more of equal stature...

Visitors, initially lured to Porto more by their taste buds than by a desire to sightsee, soon find themselves embarking on their own voyage of discovery. Those that do soon realise why this major city is listed as a World Heritage site. Be sure to head for the Barredo and Ribeiro quarters of the...

Here is a touch of Europe which enjoys 3,000 hours annually of Mediterranean-bright sun, some of the most beautiful and scenic beaches imaginable and a flavour of Africa after centuries of Moorish occupation. The beaches alone are such a draw that the wealth of interest in the inland towns and villages...

A Baltic cruise offers something no other cruise can, a new capital to explore virtually every day. A typical cruise programme includes Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Rostock & Varnemünde, Copenhagen, Oslo and others. Organised trips from the cruise ship are invariably on offer...

This southern part of the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, has never attracted much attention as a tourist destination and yet it has so much to offer. Greece is full of myths and legends. Every mountain, every rock, every stream and sometimes it seems, every tree is the subject of some folklore...

Zakynthos, also known as Zante, offers miles of golden beaches gentle lapped by shallow seas, It is an island ideal for a relaxing family holiday. Adventurers can discover much more. Overlanding to Smugglers cove, boating to the Blue caves, searching out hidden coves or wandering through Venetian...

Romantics will find nothing to excite them in the sprawling metropolis of modern Athens, nothing until they reach the very heart. At the very centre lies one of the oldest cities in the world with stones and memories rolling back over 3,400 years. A powerful city-state in Classical times, Pericles...