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  • Still Innocent Abroad
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    In this sequel to his award-winning An Innocent Abroad, Scot David M. Addison continues his account of a year spent as an exchange teacher in Missoula, Montana in the western United States.When he embarked on the exchange, the author vowed he would embrace every experience (within reason) that came his way and mostly they were reasonable, though there were some he would not car...
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    16,13 €

  • Exploring the Snow Roads
    David M. Addison
    Starting at Blairgowrie and proceeding through Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms National Park, the 90-mile-long Snow Roads Scenic Route ends at Grantown-on-Spey. It features the highest main road in the UK and, along the way, it offers the traveller some of Scotland’s most spectacular scenery.What this book seeks to do is to take a look at what lies behind the incredible vistas...
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    17,30 €

  • Exploring the SWC300
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    The SWC300 Route has been described as Scotland’s Secret Corner – with some justification.This book seeks to shed a light on the history and culture of this largely ignored part of Scotland. By delving into the colourful events that happened here in the past, the intention is to enhance and enrich your exploration of this land of contrasts as you travel through its rolling hill...
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    16,34 €

  • Travels Around Sorrento
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    David Addison may well have been looking forward to a relaxing time on his Italian holiday, but alas it was not to be. Revisiting Pompeii, he explores Herculaneum and continues the Roman theme by visiting the Villa Jovis in Capri, from which eyrie the dissipated Tiberius ran the empire. In addition, there was Vesuvius to climb, the Amalfi coast to drive and, not least, Sorrento...
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    17,13 €

  • Travels Through Time in Italy
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    Long before Thomas Cook made mass tourism to Italy possible in the 1860s there was the Grand Tour which, believe it or not, goes back a couple of centuries before that. Seen as a sort of educational finishing school for aristocrats, the Tour took in the Classical and Renaissance sights of Italy, finishing up in Naples and Pompeii.  Now, on a package tour, along comes David M. A...
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    17,07 €

  • Exploring the NC500
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    Travelling anti-clockwise, David M. Addison seeks his kicks on Scotland’s equivalent of Route 66. Otherwise known as NC500, the route takes you through five hundred miles of some of Scotland’s most spectacular scenery. No wonder it has been voted as one of the world’s five most scenic road journeys.There are many mays of exploring the NC500. You can drive it, cycle it, motorbik...
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    14,88 €

  • An Innocent Abroad
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    When, in 1978, taking a bold step into the unknown, the author, accompanied by his wife and young family, swapped his boring existence in Grangemouth in central Scotland for life in Missoula, Montana, in the western United States, he could never have foreseen just how much of a life-changing experience it would turn out to be.As an exchange teacher, he was prepared for a less f...
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    16,05 €

  • The Cuban Missus Crisis
    David M. Addison
    In this humorous travelogue round Cuba, the hapless author suffers from both urban myths and his Missus (aka the Drinks Police). The first he debunks as they occur; the crises his Missus causes, or would have caused but for his timely intervention, are a more serious matter.Acutely aware that Cuba is certain to change in the near future and probably radically, award-winning aut...
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    26,05 €

  • The Cuban Missus Crisis
    David M. Addison
    In this humorous travelogue round Cuba, the hapless author suffers from both urban myths and his Missus (aka the Drinks Police). The first he debunks as they occur; the crises his Missus causes, or would have caused but for his timely intervention, are a more serious matter.Acutely aware that Cuba is certain to change in the near future and probably radically, award-winning aut...
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    45,52 €

  • An Innocent Abroad
    David M. Addison
    When, in 1978, as a participant in a teacher exchange programme, the author, accompanied by his wife and young family, exchanged his boring existence in Grangemouth in central Scotland for life in Missoula, Montana, in the western United Sates, he could not have foreseen just how much of a life-changing experience it would be - not just for him and his family, but for his excha...
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    23,20 €

  • An Innocent Abroad
    David M. Addison
    When, in 1978, as a participant in a teacher exchange programme, the author, accompanied by his wife and young family, exchanged his boring existence in Grangemouth in central Scotland for life in Missoula, Montana, in the western United Sates, he could not have foreseen just how much of a life-changing experience it would be - not just for him and his family, but for his excha...
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    40,49 €

  • Misadventures in Tuscany
    David M. Addison
    David M. Addison provides a refreshing, alternative perspective in travel writing. A bit like Mr Bean on holiday, picking up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport is just the first in a series of misadventures which bedevil the author and his long-suffering wife on this ill-starred trip to Tuscany. From the lesser-known Lucca, which serves as the epicentre for his disasters...
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    13,58 €

  • Misadventures in Tuscany
    David M. Addison
    David M. Addison provides a refreshing, alternative perspective in travel writing. A bit like Mr Bean on holiday, picking up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport is just the first in a series of misadventures which bedevil the author and his long-suffering wife on this ill-starred trip to Tuscany. From the lesser-known Lucca, which serves as the epicentre for his disasters...
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    22,68 €

  • Bananas about La Palma
    David M. Addison
    With a song for every occasion, the author embarks on another adventure, this time to La Palma in the Canary Islands. Having learnt from previous encounters that neighbours are not conducive to good holidays, he elects this time to stay in a remote country cottage. If he imagined this would avoid encountering irritating people and ensure a trouble-free, idyllic, romantic hol...
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    17,59 €

  • Bananas about La Palma
    David M. Addison
    With a song for every occasion, the author embarks on another adventure, this time to La Palma in the Canary Islands. Having learnt from previous encounters that neighbours are not conducive to good holidays, he elects this time to stay in a remote country cottage. If he imagined this would avoid encountering irritating people and ensure a trouble-free, idyllic, romantic hol...
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    29,42 €

  • Sometime in Sorrento
    David M. Addison
    Blundering about Sorrento and its environs in search of culture, the author unwittingly resists his wife’s never ending attempts to civilise him. From the heights of Vesuvius, to the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, along the beautiful Amalfi coast and, of course, not forgetting Sorrento itself, the author’s propensity to get himself into cringe-making embarrassing situations...
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    20,40 €

  • A Meander in Menorca
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    Music, music, music. Right from the start of his package holiday to Menorca, 'music' plagues and obsesses the author. But let’s face it, as Iona, his long-suffering wife can testify, he’s a pretty intolerant sort of a person. Seen through his eyes, this book provides a sideways look at Menorca, a sort of rough guide to the island, (but not nearly as rough as his next door nei...
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    17,59 €

  • An Italian Journey
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    The formidable Iona, aka La-Belle-Dame-Sans-Merci, determined to instil some culture into her alcohol-appreciating and apparently sex-starved husband, accompanies him on a tour of the architectural and artistic highlights of Italy, like the Grand Tourists of yesteryear. Unlike those tourists though, who often spent as much as two years, if not longer, on the journey, La-Belle-D...
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    21,32 €