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This excellent guide ebook is perfect for planning your visit to La Rochelle, booking hotels, site seeing or even thinking about living in this special West Coast French Town. All the information is up to date and written for the discriminating Francophile and those who just enjoy beautiful towns, superb eating and laid back cafe society and the sea!

The ebook contains:

• Historical site seeing around town
• A map of all of central La Rochelle to locate your chosen hotel, restaurant, cafe or plan your site seeing.
• Many cafe's hotels and restaurants will offer you a discount or free drink on presentation of this ebook!
• Modern site seeing in town
• Hotel and accommodation in or near the centre of town
• Modern site seeing out of town
• What to do in La Rochelle
• Les Minimes and the biggest marina in Europe - Port de Plaisance de La Rochelle
• A Brief History of La Rochelle
• How to get to La Rochelle
• Annual Events in La Rochelle
• Useful Numbers for Taxi, Police, Hospital and European international health insurance
• Where to eat and drink

Why not take your boat to the Mediterranean next summer?

There are several ways of getting your boat to the Mediterranean. On the back of a lorry, via the French canals, four or five day’s non stop across the Bay of Biscay then down the Portuguese coast or spend the summer or two, gently coasting southwards, enjoying the harbours, cities, towns and villages of France Spain and Portugal.

This is not a pilot ebook, rather a passage plan and guide to the nicer places between the South Coast of the UK to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea.

It can all be done in easy stages, to suit a lightly crewed boat, with perhaps only a couple of people on board who are without ‘offshore’ experience.

Actually, it is a lovely way to explore a lot of delightful foreign places.

Contents

• South coast to Chenal du Four
• Planning the voyage
• Chenal du Four to La Rochelle
• La Rochelle to Coruña
• La Rochelle to Spain overview
• Coruña to Gibraltar

The passage from the UK down to the Mediterranean does not need to be like an 'outward' bound course.

If you follow the route, suggested by the author, who has sailed to and from the Mediterranean, many times, in all sorts of boats, you will find it a very gently cruise, making landfall each afternoon in a relaxed fashion.

Details the ports, marinas and route you

The Ultimate Philippines Travel Guide for Tourists and Expats

• Do You Want to Marry a Filipina and Bring her to Your Country?
• Visiting, Working, Investing, Marrying, or Retiring in the Philippines?
• Are You Looking for the Most Extensive Philippines Travel Guide on the Market?

"Philippines Insider", the ultimate Philippines Travel Guide, gives you ALL of the detailed "inside" information from a 15 year veteran

Put your mind at ease and have every question answered about your future Philippine experience. The Philippines is unlike any other country and there are many details that will make a huge difference in the success of your Philippine experience.

"Philippines Insider" will make you feel confident in dealing with every situation encountered. It will save you huge amounts of time, it will save you thousands of dollars, and very possibly save your life.

From the large cities, to virtually every small town in the Philippines, substantial details are provided on exactly where to go and what to see.

With my guide, you become a savvy professional who knows what's 'going on.' You can make your time in the Philippines successful for you.

• Be Informed About Dating and Marriage in the Philippines
• The Secret to Finding the Perfect Philippine Bride
• What to do and what not to do in an online relationship
• Marrying in the Philippines; Step-by-step detailed

If you want to learn how to navigate with GPS and Chart plotters safely then this book will give you enough basic information to get started.

Dead reckoning navigation was a wonderful and fulfilling ‘art’ form. Now that GPS is here to stay, there is no point whatsoever in having a sextant and tables on board and even the compass has become an aid rather than an essential. With the advent of chart plotters, free chart plotter navigation systems for laptops, your mobile communication device almost certainly having GPS built in, and probably Google or Bing maps, the necessity for paper charts is greatly diminished but not totally extinguished.

Whilst even with the most sophisticated of marine electronics there are still a few issues like tides and charts and the aim of this book is to simplify all those issues and get you heading for new, different, far away places.

Contents

• The hardware
• GPS or Chart Plotter programming
• Creating waypoints and routes
• Paper chart plotting
• Passage Planning - Electronic and Paper
• Tide tables and tidal streams
• Radar
• AIS
• English Channel Tidal Atlas

From the Caribbean and Panama to Australia via New Zealand and the Islands of the South Pacific

This Guide provides an overview of almost a years cruising between Panama and New Zealand or Australia.

You have to fit the cruise into this time scale in order to avoid the various hurricane seasons in the South Pacific.

The route outlined is the 'trade winds route' followed by the majority of cruising boats on a circumnavigation and although there are always off the beaten track islands and countries to visit, until you get to the Cook Islands, there are relatively few alternatives.

Table of Content:

• Preface
• Getting to Panama
• Galapagos
• Panama Canal
• The Marquesas Islands
• Tahiti and the Society Islands
• Touamotu Islands
• Cook Islands
• New Zealand & Sydney Australia
• Tonga & Fiji

If you are bored with the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, read this ebook, then you will want to dream of visiting the nearest place to paradise on this globe. How to transit the Panama Canal see giant rays on the way to the Galapagos and the best islands in the Marquesas and Touamotu groups before reaching Tahiti the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji then laying up for the hurricane season in New Zealand or Australia.

A guide on how to get to the main Mediterranean Islands from Gibraltar or the French Canals.

(Balearic, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Malta, and Greek Islands)

Distance tables, chartlets, marina/port plans and route choices - an essential planning tool

If you are currently or planning to sail in the Mediterranean then this book will show you the best routes to the islands, how to do it in both the fastest and easiest way plus details of all the ports and marinas you will visit together with their mooring price in high summer!

The Mediterranean is a lovely cruising ground and the islands beckon!

Getting to them from either Gibraltar or Port St Louis if you came down the canals, is the purpose of this book

You can easily get to the Balearic’s in ‘day sails’ but to Sardinia, Sicily, and the Greek Islands, a night at sea is obligatory. If you choose your weather, the warm Mediterranean nights are lovely and in summer the hours of darkness are very short, making it a really good experience.

This book lists the easiest and best routes through the Mediterranean with information on the costs of berths for the night and information about the places to stop at on the way.

The essential Mediterranean planning tool!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.

• Weather forecasts
• Mediterranean Overview
• Overnight

If you are heading for the Mediterranean this book details the final challenge entering the Straits of Gibraltar, the last hurdle. They need approaching with some idea of tides and strategy.

This ebook tells you about the Marina's and the charges to overnight or keep your boat permanently in the area. 'Freeports', duty free diesel fuel, where to haul out, repair services etc.

Ebook contains tidal charts, pictures, illustrations, port descriptions and legal information.

Most importantly it lists all the local ports and their facilities.

Table of contents:

• Entering the Straits
• Mediterranean overview
• Bárbate
• Gibraltar
• Tarifa
• La Línea
• Duquesa
• Algecerías
• Ceuta
• Tangier
• Smir
• Bringing your boat legally into Spain

The ebook contains tidal charts and strategy for making the final passage through the straights into the Mediterranean. It contains information on fuel and marina prices as well as haul out facilities and places to winter your boat. Beside port information for all the above it provides places of interest and reasons for visiting them.

Dozens of photos and illustrations.

The essential guide if you don't know the Straights of Gibraltar.

Fossils follows the adventures of four elderly musicians who form a band while residing in an old folks home in England The band is unwittingly propelled into the British spotlight by a young disc jockey, but they are billed as a young vibrant band. To escape the nations media attention until things can be resolved, the four old rockers flee to tour in the Philippines. After being found by the media there, they continue to evade the press by fleeing to Cambodia, but they are discovered there shortly after arriving by a nasty journalist,  so they head to Thailand. Meanwhile in England, the daughter of Steve, the bands leader, manages to convince the nation that the Fossils do not exist and it was a ploy by a record company. Unfortunately, prior to them being able to return home, one of the band members passes away, leaving the others to find there way home, amid a quagmire of red tape.

Fossils tells of the calamitous adventures in South east Asia by the four elderly musicians, as they discover a new, exciting and carefree way of life.

Viagra snuff and Rock'n'Roll

This ultimate Philippines travel guide is a short and comprehensive guide for those that wish to travel to the Philippines in the near future. This book is written bij an enthusiastic traveler that tries to get more people traveling

Unlike any travel guide, the author describes popular places in a personal way. The book is therefore best used as a source of inspiration to create your itinerary. 

This book should not be mistaken by a complete guide with all the addresses of places to visit included.

The book describes the following topics:

- The best places to find your accommodation. 

- The ways of transport between the islands of the Philippines.

- All the different type of foods that you should try.

- The cultural and historical monuments that you cannot miss.

- The more touristic and extreme adventures that you should look out to.

- The ways of how you can enjoy your evening in this country.

And finally there is a bucket list where you can find a summary of places you should visit.

Ben Bakewell is a baker with a unique gift, putting him at the top of the culinary world. More commonly known as Cake, he meets Ravuth, a Cambodian man residing in England. Ravuth fled his home many years ago to evade the Khmer Rouge who captured his family.

As a youngster, Ravuth discovered a plant, which many years later he found made an extraordinary cake spice. After many years of searching for his family, he employs Jed Culver, a disgraced DEA agent, now working in Cambodia as a Private Investigator. Thanks to Jed and modern technology, Ravuth gets possible evidence of his family's whereabouts. However, with Jed's bitterness for his old employer, and after discovering the harmless plant is not as it seems, it leads him along a deadly path to find the plant.

Ravuth and Cake journey to Cambodia to embark on their search, encountering twists and turns along the way.  

Spice takes you from the glitz and glamour of the fashionable London restaurant scene to the wild untamed jungles surrounding the Cardamom mountain region of South East Asia, as the participants race to locate the remarkable plant and find Ravuth's long lost kin.