Azure Bonds:
Azure Bonds is a fantasy novel set in the ?Forgotten Realms? which is a setting for the table-top RPG, ?Dungeons and Dragons?. For more information on Dungeons and Dragons or Forgotten Realms try Wikipedia as they have some really awesome pages there with as much information as you could ever need!
Azure Bonds begins with the novels main character, (a mercenary called Alias), coming to in an Inne. Alias has no memory of recent events, (although she remembers events from her more distant past), and has a strange tattoo on her arm. Alias decides that her fellow adventurers must have played a drunken prank on her and left her in the Inne to sober up. Alias soon discovers that she was found unconscious outside the Inne and begins her quest to discover what happened.
Before long, Alias is joined by three other adventurers ...
Advantages: More affordable thank you think !! Disadvantages: Not many I can think of
The Cote D'Azur is the term that refers to the French Riviera and encompasses - among others - the three cities Nice, Cannes, and Monaco. The latter is a "Principality", which is self-governed and sovereign from the rest of France.
The area is served by Nice Cote D'Azur International Airport, which is approximately 2 hours flight from the UK. Although, this is slightly dependent upon the airport you depart from. Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton, and Stansted would all fall into this travel category, where as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester would all be closer to 2 ˝ hours travel time.
Due to the close proximity of the three cities mentioned, I have never been to this region of France without visiting all three together!! Although, of the 3, Nice is probably the city I have spent the least amount of time, maybe because it is located in ...
Advantages: Truly spectacular world class location Disadvantages: Food is only good, not great
I booked by email before I left the UK and just as well - it sells out. Unless you are staying there, you can't even get into the Crane Bay Hotel car park, but they let you in if you have a booking for the resturant, even as a non-resident, so that alone would justify it. So, I went. Sunday brunch at a fabulous cliff-top resturant, overlooking one of the 10 best beaches in the world according to 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' magazine.
Crane Bay is a beautiful horseshow-shaped flat and sandy beach on the spectacular east coast of Barbados (the Atlantic side) where long breakers roll in. Because the beach is so shallow and flat the waves roll in and in and the water goes from deep saphire blue to light emerald green. Crane Bay Hotel (which is a complex, not one building) sits on the cliff above the bay and L'Azure resturant is ...