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With its pleasant climate and proximity to northern Europe, the Costa del Sol has been attracting tourists for centuries. The famous resort cities of Marbella, Puerto Banus, Torremolinos and Benalmadena are quick and cheap airline flights away from the colder European winters.     TABLE...

What rattles your cage and makes you put pen to paper? Tom Kane is an English ex-pat living in the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus, and these are his observations of life as an ex-pat in Cyprus. Although part of Europe and in the EU, Cyprus is close to the Middle East, which is a bit unnerving...

"Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more interesting place than it was when he found...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads while touring withLonely Planet Germany, Austria and Switzerland's Best Trips**,**your passport to uniquely encountering this region by car. Featuring 30 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week...

Istanbul also called Stambul is the largest city in Turkey, representing the economic, cultural and historical heart of the country. With a population of 15.5 million people, the city is a natural center of urban agglomeration, one of the largest in Europe and the world by population. Get now the Ultimate Travel Guide to Istanbul and enjoy a great holiday with it.

Zurich - I know what you're thinking, but honestly it's not boring Bankers Capital, for any considered. Zurich was actually - let's whisper - a surprisingly fun and fashionable. Hundreds of new bars, restaurants and clubs have opened since the laws were changed internal planning in the late 90s of...

A compendium of stops, observations, and snark by a weird family, not the least of whom is the author, wandering around the hapless landscapes of Europe, Colorado, The Pacific Northwest, New Mexico, Minnesota, The Black Hills, and other unwitting places.  Includes the author's obsessive thoughts about the arts and pointed intrusions by the cat, Thomas Stearns.      

What should you do when you’ve never even been in a rowboat, but discover one boring Saturday morning, as you were reading two inches in a travel column, an instant but hitherto totally unknown passion to live and cruise on a barge in Europe? Should you give your Australian life the flick, pack your...

Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored in the years after the war, when peoples and...

In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle...

Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe. It emerged from the revival of the institution founded by Adolph Kolping, a contemporary of Karl...

In TV Socialism, Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid aesthetic and economic practices, including frequent exchanges within the region and with Western...

In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the...

Albania is not well known by outsiders; it was deliberately closed to the outside world during the communist era. Now it has thankfully become free again, its borders are open and it can be visited, and it is increasingly integrating with the rest of Europe and beyond. Unfortunately, Albania has had...