Posts Tagged ‘City’
February 3rd, 2012 | 
Author: 
Product Description
Here is the first in-depth literary guide for visitors to Edinburgh. Easy to use and pleasurable to read, it is the essential guide for book lovers and literary pilgrims. Fully illustrated, each chapter illuminates a different area of the city and includes essential details on author birthplaces and homes; burial places of the literati; sites with a literary connection; restaurants and pubsfrom Robert Louis Stevenson’s favorite pub to the café where J.K. Rowlin… More >>
The Literary Traveller in Edinburgh: A Book Lover’s Guide to the World’s First City of Literature
Posted in 
Tags: 
Product Description
With Edinburgh City Centre Street Map for Kindle, you no longer have to carry a cumbersome map around with you. Instead, all you need is your trusted Kindle.
This ebook features:
- A detailed Edinburgh City Centre street map based on OpenStreetMap, optimized for Kindle
- A searchable street index with hyperlinks that allow you to go directly to the map tile with the street you are looking for
- A convenient navigation bar, which help… More >>
Edinburgh City Centre Street Map: Old Town, New Town, and West End of Edinburgh, Scotland
Product Description
Do you love going to the pictures? Live for the seasons Old Firm match? Have a rerr singer in the family? Long to dance under the stars in the Barras ballroom? Is your idea of a local hero Lobby Dosser? And who needs Bob Dylan when you have Matt McGinn? In this collection of personal anecdotes, John Cairney takes you on a tour of his Glasgow, introducing the people and places that have shaped it. Full of the humour, tension and patter that characterises Scotlands mo… More >>
I’m planning to study abroad somewhere in the UK next Spring, and I’d narrowed it down to two cities and two universities: Cardiff U, and University of Glasgow.
I was wondering what’s a better overall city to live/study in? I know it depends on tastes so for example: I like Boston better than I like NYC in terms of cities.
I was also wondering which one is the most unique looking in comparison to NYC?
Thanks in advance!
Product Description
Daniel Defoe visited the city of Glasgow in the 18th Century, and later, in his book ‘A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain,’ he described it as ‘the cleanest and beautifulest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.’ In modern times, a few days in this vibrant, cosmopolitan, European city, will prove that Defoe’s words are still both valid and accurate.
Previously viewed as a working class centre for industry, the city’s inclusion in t… More >>
We are flying in from San Francisco, CA and were wondering if we should rent a hotel room in Shannon, before heading to Cork.
Any must see’s while in Ireland? Thanks!
This Edinburgh swing song takes you round the stunning Capital City of Scotland.The scenes are set to the “Big Band Swing” music of the legendary Radio Big Band with John Scott.It includes views of Edinburgh Castle,The Royal Mile,Edinburgh at Christmas,The Forth Rail Bridge,Princes Street,The Old Town, The New Town and of course Greyfriars Bobby! Please vist our facebook page and become a fan! www.facebook.com
Hole new fast food outlet plan for city
IT’S a dream come true for sweet-toothed fast food fans – drive-through doughnuts are coming to the city.
Read more on The Scotsman
Originally posted 2011-04-15 20:25:09.
Product Description
Stonehenge dates its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times). It attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is more than an array of great standing stones. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected. That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence–royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other bu… More >>
Edinburgh, Scotland a quick look at Edinburgh Castle, The Royal Mile, St Giles, The old Town, Holrood Palace, Calton Hill, The Scottish Parliament and a few others
