This road trip started from southern France, Cote d’Azur (also known as Riviera, here is a Riviera guidebook), continued to northwest Italy via the lower Alps, passed through Mont Blanc along a long tunnel that ended in Chamonix France, continued to … Read the Story
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10 popular pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
During our travels in Central and Southern Europe, I have been surprised to find out how popular activity hiking along the ancient pilgrim routes in France, Spain and Portugal is. The pilgrim destination is Santiago de Compostela … Read the Story
The best travel photography from road trips in Europe 2021
During the summer of 2021 it became obvious that many travelers had chosen their own cars, campervans and motorhomes to tour Europe instead of flying to a remote island faraway from home. Camper parks, camping sites, and motels had customers to … Read the Story
Valencia, Spain and Bordeaux, France recognized as the smart tourism capitals of 2022
The annual European Capital of Smart Tourism competition is intended for cities in the EU region that want recognition for their work in making travel more sustainable and accessible. Digital technologies provide possibilities to achieve … Read the Story
The most photographed destinations in the world
Instagram is so dominant social media service for sharing photos that trending hashtags and number of likes for images indicate the popularity of not only photos but subjects on those pictures. Inkifi, a photo … Read the Story
Ebook news digest: 2018 developments in books and self-publishing, trends for 2019, Obama’s favorite books
News on books, writing and publishing
Self-publishing News: New Year New Predictions
Alliance of Independent Authors takes a look at developments of 2018 that are likely to strengthen in 2019. Subscription platforms, artificial intelligence and blockchain are the usual suspects in the … Read the Story
Ebooks and ereaders have found their audience in France
Large English-language markets, such as the US and the UK are leading the transition to ebooks, but large European countries, like France, Germany, Italy and Spain are beginning to turn to digital reading as well. A survey conducted in France indicates … Read the Story
A fridge library at a tiny village at the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains
I have seen many kinds of street-side libraries where book lovers let passersby and neighbors take a book from the selection. If these readers have books they can donate, they may return a title into the selection. A Bookcrossing box in … Read the Story
Ebook news digest: recommended books for vacation, nomads’ favourite continent, Tour de France
News on ebooks, writing and reading
Bill Gates Discusses His Lifelong Love for Books and Reading
Time
Bill Gates is the man who started the personal computing and software revolution in the late 1970s – early 1980s when his company Microsoft managed to make … Read the Story
The modern libraries of Thionville, France and Seinäjoki, Finland have something in common
Public libraries all over the world have a new problem to solve: how to provide the best possible services to citizens when the core service of a library – printed book – is transforming to digital format. Ebooks can be checked … Read the Story
Travel photo gallery 2016: Lapland, France, Belgium
In 2016, my long project of photographing and writing a travel guidebook about Lapland was completed and the book will be published in early 2017. Since it was a long project, photos from Lapland has been included in earlier galleries as … Read the Story
Nice, Monaco or Cannes?
The travel guide The Gems of Nice and the French Riviera has the answer.