Wederom bewijst Gerard Goudriaan met deze stadsgids de stadswandelaar een dienst. In acht thema's laat hij Rotterdam telkens weer op een andere ma-nier aan ons zien. Natuurlijk wijst hij ons op de onvermijdelijke highlights: de Euromast, de Erasmus- en Willemsbrug, de Hef en de Kuip en het station.

Maar ook de pareltjes waar menig wandelaar klakkeloos aan voorbij zou lopen worden in deze wandelgids niet vergeten. We worden gewezen op de 'zwaantjes' van Plaswijck, de talrijke molens bij de plassen in Noord, een achteloos opgetekende tekst van Jules Deelder op een poortdeurtje in het centrum, de kwaliteit van de koffie bij de Hofbogen en de rare kunstwerken bij het atelier van van Lieshout. Terrasjes en aanlegplaatsen waar je uit kunt kijken over de machtige havens liggen aan de routes en soms moet je je biertje zelfs op een dakterras drinken.

In ruim 90 kilometer rijgt Gerard maar liefst 108 kijkpunten aaneen. Alle thema's worden uitgebreid ingeleid en met het heldere kaartmateriaal kan er voor de wandelaar eigenlijk niets meer mis gaan ... Daarnaast zijn GPS-tracks en de laatste versies van de wandelingen via een qr-code te downloaden.

De Elfstedentocht op de schaats heeft iets mythisch. Waarschijnlijk omdat de originele schaatstocht zelden plaatsvindt. Een Elfstedentocht op de fiets kun je zelf doen, en dan heb je wel garantie op succes! Om het fietsen zo aangenaam mogelijk te maken, zijn we in dit boek uitgegaan van de mooiste fietspaden in Friesland om de 11 steden met elkaar te verbinden. Vanuit Leeuwarden gaat de route naar de stad Sneek, met de iconische waterpoort. Langs de Langweerderwielen fiets je naar het vestingstadje Sloten. Door het bosrijke landschap van Gaasterland gaat het naar Stavoren, langs de IJsselmeerdijk naar Hindeloopen en door het Friese boerenland naar Workum. Via een fantastisch plasdrasgebied loopt de route naar IJlst; over polderdijken en langs een trekvaart gaat het naar Bolsward. Via de geboorteplaats van Grote Pier fiets je naar Harlingen. Vanuit Franeker, de stad van het planetarium van Eise Eisinga, gaat de route door langs de Dokkumer Ee naar Dokkum. Via kleine dorpjes en oude bomenlanen gaat het terug naar Leeuwarden, de Friese hoofdstad. De Elfstedentocht verbindt de steden in 11 etappes, die omschreven worden in dit boek. De afstanden tussen de steden zijn niet altijd even groot en vaak is het mogelijk om meer dan één etappe op een dag te fietsen. In totaal zijn de etappes goed voor 250 kilometer fietsplezier. Het boek geeft uitgebreide informatie over Friesland en bij iedere stad is er behalve een stukje geschiedenis ook een beschrijving van de verschillende bezienswaardigheden langs de route.

* Gratis dowloadbare GPS-track

* 16 uitneembare kaarten

* Uitgebreide lijst met overnachtingsmogelijkheden

Heel speciale reisgids over Moermansk en omgeving. Weliswaar behoorlijk op leeftijd, maar nog altijd vol informatie op cultureel gebied. Daarnaast veel praktische informatie. De enige reisgids over deze streek in Rusland. 

Murmansk - Belomor'e - Khibiny - Kovdor district - Lovozero Tundra - Murmansky Shore - Pechenga District

Let Secret Mexico guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Mexico travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Secret Milan features 185+ secret and unusual locations. Inside Secret Mexico City: The forgotten cafe where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mache, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk...

Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Mexico City is filled with hidden treasures revealed only to the residents and visitors who leave the beaten path. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Mexico City well or for those wishing to discover another facet of the city.

A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller.

A Feast of Wonder!
Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Dig in and feed your sense of wonder.
“Like a great tapas meal, Gastro Obscura is deep yet snackable, and full of surprises. This is the book for anyone interested in eating, adventure and the human condition.” –Tom Colicchio, chef and activist
“This exquisite guide kept me at the breakfast table until dinner time.” –Kyle Maclachlan, actor and vintner

In 1522 Ignatius of Loyola made a pilgrimage from his home in Spain's Basque country to Montserrat and Manresa. This new guide from Bradt provides all the information needed to follow in his footsteps in a neat, easy-to-carry portable format, including an essential mix of practicalities, such as when to go, where to stay along the route, national parks and public transport, and a detailed breakdown of the route's 27 stages. Start and finish points, level of difficulty, duration, distance, ascent and descent, and route descriptions are all included, as well as elevation charts, maps and what to see along the way. This is a unique secular walking guide to a religious-themed walk which takes intrepid hikers from the imposing tower house and sanctuary of Loyola in the Basque Country, up through the stunning Basque mountains and down to the beautiful town of Laguardia with its myriad wine caves. Through the vineyards of Alava and world-famous La Rioja, the trail visits lively Logroño and follows the River Ebro eastwards, through the lesser-visited cities of Zaragoza and Lleida.Navarre and Aragón autonomous communities are covered, then on to powerful, independent-minded Catalonia, allowing walkers to connect with a region of Spain less-visited than the sparkling costas or the huge conurbations of Madrid or Barcelona. For its grandstand finish, the route returns to Montserrat and then Manresa, where Ignatius lived for months in the spartan surroundings of a cave to write his seminal work, the Spiritual Exercises. Having had their pilgrim passports stamped along the way, walkers are rewarded with a certificate to demonstrate their resilience in completing the route.

PART TWO: THE OFFICIAL STAGES OF THE CAMINO IGNACIANO

Gateway town: Loyola

Stage 1: Loyola-Zumarraga

Stage 2: Zumarraga-Arantzazu

Stage 3: Arantzazu-Araia

Stage 4: Araia-Alda

Stage 5: Alda-Genevilla

Stage 6: Genevilla-Laguardia

Stage 7: Laguardia-Navarrete

Stage 8: Navarrete-Logroño

Stage 9: Logroño-Alcanadre

Stage 10: Alcanadre-Calahorra

Stage 11: Calahorra-Alfaro

Stage 12: Alfaro-Tudela

Stage 13: Tudela-Gallur

Stage 14: Gallur-Alagón

Stage 15: Alagón-Zaragoza

Stage 16: Zaragoza-Fuentes de Ebro

Stage 17: Fuentes de Ebro-Venta de Santa Lucia

Stage 18: Venta de Santa Lucia-Bujaraloz

Stage 19: Bujaraloz-Candasnos

Stage 20: Candasnos-Fraga

Stage 21: Fraga-Lleida (Lerida

Stage 22: Lleida-El Palau d’Anglesola

Stage 23: El Palau d’Anglesola-Verdú

Stage 24: Verdú-Cervera

Stage 25: Cervera-Igualada

Stage 26: Igualada-Montserrat

Stage 27: Montserrat-Manresa

Where do you turn when you want to ride in the mountains, to follow in the wheeltracks of professional racers by climbing the famous passes of the Tour de France? There are several books and websites that highlight these renowned ascents, detailing their location, length and every little change in gradient. But how do you go about finding a route that links these passes together, that describes not only where they are and what they're like to ride, but highlights which is the best side to tackle them from and which roads to avoid?Award-winning author Peter Cossins's new series of guides to riding in the Western Europe's high mountains will provide these details - and much more. Inspired by Alfred Wainwright's walking guides to the Lake District, they are intended as the bible for any cyclist riding in Europe's most stunning terrain.

The first in the series is The Roads, Cols and Passes of the Pyrenees, which is duefor publication by Great Northern Books in June 2020. Featuring 120 routes, 400 Pyrenean climbs and more than 12,000kilometres of riding, it will detail the best road cycling routes on both the French and Spanish sides of the 600km-long Pyrenean chain, as well as in Andorra. The routes will range from 50-kilometre loops passing some of the most extraordinary of France's Cathar Castles perched on almost impregnable pinnacles to 200-kilometre Tour de France-like epics over several passes.

It will not only includeillustrious Tour ascents such as the Col du Tourmalet, the Col d'Aubisque and Plateau de Beille, but also draw attention to other climbs and regions that also merit exploration on two wheels, highlighting points of historical significance and the best the roads on which to access them, always aiming to make the riding experience as pleasurable as possible. The book is aimed at anyone who wants to ride in the Pyrenees, from newcomers to road riding who want to take their firsttentative steps in the high mountains right through to very experienced cyclists who want to push themselves and explore new terrain at the same time. There will be something for everyone, in every part of the Pyrenees.

1 mountain range

3 countries

11 regions

112 routes

310 climbs

10,716km of riding

260,646m of vertical gain

Explore the exciting world of spirits with Lonely Planet. Featuring the best distilleries and bars in over 30 countries, we'll tell you where to go and what to taste - from gin, bourbon and whisky to vodka, cachaca, tequila and more. Includes unmissable regional drinks from South Africa, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia, France, Italy, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Within each of the 33 countries in Lonely Planet's Global Distillery Tour, we've organised the distilleries alphabetically by region. Each distillery has a suggested must-try drink or tasting experience and also recommended local sights so you can explore the local area in between tasting sessions.

We've also included bars that are best-in-class for their selection of one particular drink, such as arak in Lebanon or tuak in Malaysia. At the back of the book, you'll find a section dedicated to cocktails: our take on the best mixology magic in the world, and the bars that serve them. Contributions come from specialist spirit reviewers, writers and bloggers.

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.

100 beautiful places in Scotland to walk, eat and sleep Peter Irvine, bestselling author of SCOTLAND THE BEST,has selected 100 extraordinary places that epitomise what istruly great about Scotland. This personal and diverse compendium is illustrated with beautiful and evocative images by some of Scotland's best photographers. Peter Irvine has drawn on a lifetime of experiences to create this list of the 100 best places in Scotland: reflective, magnificent and human places.

Some choices may be surprising but all are exceptional. This book is Pete's ultimate collection selected from the hundreds of places that feature in the bestselling independent guide to Scotland, SCOTLAND THE BEST. As well as expert commentary, all 100 places include highly selective recommendations of where to walk, eat and sleep nearby.

Some of Scotland's finest photographers have captured the essence of each place. From wild glens to ancient buildings, remote islands to vibrant cities, this is Pete's list of the places in Scotland that you really should visit in your lifetime.

Een ovale puzzel van de hele wereld van 107 stukjes. Welke dieren wonen waar en hoe koud is het echt op de Zuidpool? Op de puzzel staan allerlei beesten die ook terug komen in het activiteitenboek. Het activiteitenboek staat boordevol puzzels, raadsels, vragen, sudoku en doolhoven. Zo leer je op een spelende manier nog meer over de dieren van over de hele wereld.