Western Europe - Italy (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Download the eBook version of Lonely Planet's PDF Italy chapter from the Western Europe guidebook - 12th Edition

Western Europe - Italy (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Italy’s iconic monuments and masterpieces are known the world over, while cities such as Rome, Florence and Venice need no introduction. And then there are those timeless landscapes, from Tuscany’s gentle hillsides to icy Alpine peaks, vertiginous coastlines and spitting southern volcanoes.

Coverage includes: Rome, Northern Italy, Genoa, Cinque Terre, Turin, Milan, The Lakes, Verona, Venice, Trieste, Bologna, Ravenna, Tuscany & Umbria, Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Perugia, Assisi, Southern Italy, Naples, Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Sicily, Survival Guide.

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Driving the Trans- Siberian
by Chris Raven & Simon Raven

Ever had the desire to jump in your car and keep driving; to wave goodbye to routine and commitment, to drive into the unknown hungry for adventure? Well, that is precisely what overland travel writers, Chris Raven and Simon Raven, decided to do whilst stacking boxes of frozen oven chips in a -30 degrees freezer. Not being petrol heads and having zero knowledge of the internal combustion engine, the brothers fired up their rusty Ford Sierra Sapphire and headed east. 

After clocking up over 11,000 miles, quite literally living in the car, they miraculously arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Siberia on the Sea of Japan. What they had in fact done was to drive the entire length of the new Amur Highway before it was finished, which crosses Russia and the notorious Zilov Gap in a 6,200 mile swath of cracked tarmac and potholes. Along the way our trusty heroes drink vodka with Chechen criminals, escape highway robbery, trade banana flavoured condoms with Russian cops, meet the eccentric and plain weird at truck stops in darkest Siberia, endure torturous road conditions and have a race to the finish with the Germans. Surviving this insane journey by the skin of their teeth the brothers are forced to confront their worst fears in this toe-curling comedy of extreme road trip adventure.

Priding themselves in going it alone, Simon and Chris have been noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”.