A guide to wine-loving Francophiles. It features places where there is an emphasis on fine food, convivial meals and an easy-going inclusiveness.

A guide with fresh write-ups, color photographs, symbols, maps, directions and quick reference indices which paint a picture to help discover the place that is best for you.

Presents different places for everyone - from families with children to young lovers, peace-seekers, beach bums and gardeners. This guide includes places set in gorgeous countryside, but also more townhouses and more B&Bs built by younger folk experimenting with a change in lifestyle.

Covers over 900 special pubs and inns for you to try, all inspected, all special. This title also includes stacks for those who like their pubs with real ale on draft and pickled eggs on the bar and for those who like leather sofas and chalkboard menus.

Offers a selection of the places, recipes and people who take their time to enjoy life at its most enriching. This book goes beyond the mere 'glossy', and helps you discover an emphasis on the people who live in Special Slow Places and what they do: farmers, literary people, wine-makers and the craftsmen - all with different stories to tell.

A guide to various places, some of them farmhouses in gorgeous countryside, and also townhouses and B&Bs purpose-built by younger folk experimenting with a change in lifestyle.

Italy is the birthplace of the Slow movement and the home of Slow Food. This title picks forty six places to stay - places where attention is lavished on some of the most important things in life: convivial meals, community, friends and family. It celebrates fascinating people, fine architecture, history, landscape and real food.

Suitable for those traveling round France, this title includes special places from France, including ski chalets and seaside homes, chateaux and farmhouses.

A guide to British hotels and inns, which includes photographs, symbols, maps, directions and reference indices.

From the Georgian splendors of Glasgow and Edinburgh to the remote beauty of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland is home to some of our most beloved Special Places. This title features secluded crofts, grand old castles, tranquil cottages and hotels.

A guide suitable for an independent traveler interested in the culture, style, and people of India and Sri Lanka.

Includes Special Places from the old and 'new' neighbourhoods such as the Marais, the Bastille, the Canal Saint Martin and all the way up to Montmartre; bars with warm fires and deep sofas, flea market finds, 8th-century staircases, Empire antiquities, home-made jams and croissants, and country-house style; and, where to find a private chauffeur.

Shows delightful places to stay with fascinating gardens; from grand estates to small town plots, all over the British. This guide directs you to good local nurseries and gives you the low-down on which public gardens to visit nearby.

It is estimated that there are over 600 million motor vehicles being driven on the streets of the earth. But oil is running out and bio-fuels are no longer seen as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Add to that the choking emissions and greenhouse gases that are pushing the planet towards runaway global warming.

Covers the south west and Devon and Cornwall in particular. This guide includes special places such as pubs, self-catering houses, hotels and B&Bs. It also features couple of pages on each area revealing favourite walks, beaches, places to eat and play and things to do on rainy days.

Presents 240 special places to stay in Ireland, north, south, east and west: from tiny simple places to luxurious ones, including Northern Ireland. This title offers information on: B&Bs in family homes, hotels of different type; fishing lodges, keeps and castles; and, self-catering cottages, farms and seaside houses.

Anyone who has ever enjoyed growing something, whether it be a small pot plant or a row of peas, can call themselves a garden lover. This work features owners with hugely different gardens: some are finished masterpieces, and others are works in progress.

Aims to show that the excuses we give to avoid reducing our carbon footprint and our personal impact on the environment are exactly that, excuses. This book illustrates through explanation, facts and figures, that any changes we make now will have an effect, both directly and indirectly on climate change.

The Portuguese are as intensely proud of their rich history as they are of their football and their stunning scenery. This guide leads you to guesthouses, hotels and self-catering properties from the simple, cheap and charming to the grandly historic - pousadas, castles, forts and convents - and designer-decadent new kids on the block.

The entries in this guide are chosen for the warmth of their welcome, their style whether grand or not, their value for money, and their wonderful locations. It includes a family villa hidden on its own Cycladic beach, and a historic apartment tucked away in an island's Venetian citadel. It celebrates the unusual, the beautiful and the individual.