Eileen Anderson

The go-to Lesvos travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover Lesvos (Lesbos) on foot with the Sunflower Lesvos travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. Inside the Sunflower Zakynthos guide book you'll find: 65 long and short walks for all ages and abilities - each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkNew shorter walks added - ideal for birdwatching and botanistsTopographical walking maps - give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000Free downloadable gps tracks - for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 5 car tours and fold-out touring map - for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots - enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport - ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest information We cover coastal walks and the interior, including around Mt Ólympos, showing trekking routes of varying difficulty, all of which are mapped in detail. Many of the hikes on this unspoilt island are circular, with highlights including 7th-century BC remains, a petrified forest and chestnut and oak forests. Whether you tour the region by car or explore on foot, we've got some glorious walks and tours to share and we look forward to showing you around.

The go-to Algarve travel guide for discovering the best walks and car tours. Strap on your boots and discover Algarve on foot with the Sunflower Algarve travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours. The Sunflower Algarve guide is indispensable for hiking in Algarve or seeing Algarve by car. Away from the busy beaches, the Algarve has a countryside full of interest and beauty, quietly awaiting discovery. From flowers and fountains, hilltops and history, to windmills and water-mills, this book will set your feet wandering to find them all. There are car tours, too, to get you out and about, searching out little-known points of interest-like the huge rose compass (rosa dos ventos) on the barren promontory of Sagres, where Prince Henry the Navigator founded his school of navigation, or the Moorish castle and old Roman bridge at Paderne. But don't think for one moment that we have turned our backs on and ignored the beautiful and rugged western coastline. Wherever it is still unspoilt and free from development, the authors have incorporated it into a walk. Whatever your age or ability we’ve got some glorious walks and car tours to ensure you have a memorable Algarve holiday. Inside the Sunflower Algarve guide book you’ll find: 55 long and short walks for all ages and abilities – each walk is graded so you can easily match your ability to the level of walkTopographical walking maps – give you a clear sense of the surrounding terrain with a scale of 1:50 000Algarve Way highlighted on all relevant mapsFree downloadable gps tracks – for the techiesSatnav guidance to walk starts for motorists 5 car tours and fold-out touring map – for easy reference on your tour Strolls to idyllic picnic spots – enjoy our recommendations for where to picnic along the wayTimetables for public transport – ideal if you want to link two walks or avoid hiring a car on your holidayOnline update service for the latest information Includes Faro town plan Whether you tour the region by car or explore on foot, we look forward to showing you around.

The second edition of this popular guide to cruising in the Caribbean has been significantly updated with the addition of the ABC islands, Aruba, Bonaire and Cura ao. More illustrations have been included and the formatting vastly improved to give a superior reader experience and better navigation, thanks to the latest technology introduced by Kindle. This book can be downloaded onto your tablet or smartphone which makes it so easy to carryThe Caribbean is one of the most exciting cruise destinations in the world and this book aims to make it a more rewarding the experience. This book sets out with clear objectives, to:1. Outline the history of the region by considering the forces with shaped the Caribbean to the area we know today; the trade winds, European colonisation, disease environment, pirates, sugar and rum.2. Detail the most regularly visited cruise destinations. 18 destinations are described in this book; Aruba, Cura ao, Bonaire, Barbados; Antigua; Bahamas; St Barts; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Martinique: Nevis; St Kitts; St Lucia; St Vincent; Tortola, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos.3. Describe the tours typically offered by cruise companies for each destination with some detail. Shore excursions are an integral part of the cruise experience and many cruisers are happy to join a ship's organised tour, especially in an unfamiliar location, but they are expensive and sometimes very slow depending on numbers.4. Describe similar or alternative tours which you can do on your own at considerable saving and often with a better experience. Just following one of these alternatives tours could easily save the cost of this book. Where the ship's excursion is the best option we say that too.

Just short of ninety species of orchids are found on Lesvos, and that is a conservative number, some researchers claim more. The number alone does not tell you how surprisingly prolific the orchids are, if you visit the right location in springtime. To make sure you do visit the right locations, this book includes 7 detailed tours in various parts of the island. Not only does it detail where to stop but also lists the orchids recorded in that location over various seasons. This book is well illustrated with clear colour photographs of almost all the species found in the main flowering period. It adopts a logical, structured approach to help with identification with diagnostic tips where possible. A map showing details of the distribution of orchids across the island and a chart of approximate flowering times are both included. It is a field guide with a difference; you can carry it with you on your smart phone or tablet. Once downloaded you simply open up your Kindle app, use the interactive contents to take you to the right section and scan through the pictures to identify the orchid in front of you. All this without an internet connection or a telephone signal, it is already stored on your phone or tablet. There can't be many large Greek islands that have remained as natural as Lesvos. Effectively, it is over-sized and under populated leaving extensive forests of pine, oak and chestnut cloaking the mountains and remaining largely undisturbed. It has olive trees in abundance, wonderful, ancient olive groves, centuries old, clinging to the hillsides held by nothing more than stones terraces and served with equally ancient mule tracks. It is an island loved by all those with an interest in natural history whether it is for bird watching, one of the top locations in Europe, wild flowers, orchids or insects it draws enthusiasts back year after year.