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An Ideal Christmas Present for Travelling Friends and Family

Advantages: Lots of ideas for all places and budgets
Disadvantages: Only the briefest of introductions - you'll have to do more research elsewhere.

Keep it Clean Clean Breaks by Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith is a guide to 500 things you could do around the world without a high environmental impact. The green aspirations of the book make it pretty clear that it's not going to be the Richard Ha ...

koshkha 12.12.2011 · Read full review
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Ultimately Not For Me

Advantages: Well-written and informative
Disadvantages: Some adventures are quite tame, some are too extreme

...Ultimate Adventures is a collection, compiled by Greg Witt under the Rough Guide banner of, well, Ultimate Adventures. As I consider myself to be fairly adventurous and well travelled I thought this would be another good addition to my collection of trave ...

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Want to run the Grand Canyon in a day? This book is for you!

Advantages: Expert advice, exceptionally presented, fabulous photos, star rating
Disadvantages: Not for us!

...My husband had a brief love of Bear Grylls and decided we were going to start going on some adventure holidays. I gave in to him slightly bemused, and bought him the Rough Guide Ultimate Adventures book. Priced at £16.99 in my local bookstore, it wasn't t ...

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From the Weird to the Wonderful and Wacky!

Advantages: Some amazingly different places to stay
Disadvantages: Some you would have to pay me to stay in!

Bed in a Tree by Bettina Kowalewski ISBN 978-1-4053-3497-6 I bought this unusual book through a charity auction on another website. I have had a couple of other books along these lines and enjoyed planning a stay somewhere different and so I thought this ...

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Perfect if You'd Sleep Rough Before You'd Book a Travellodge

Advantages: Something to appeal to everyone at all price points
Disadvantages: I'll need to write a lot of reviews to pay for some of these

What Comes First, the Destination or the Accommodation? When planning a holiday or a short break most people choose a destination, book the flights or train tickets and then go looking for accommodation that fits in with their plans. In Bettina Kowale ...

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