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"Try activity holidays, but, 'if at first you don't succeed,' then sky-diving is probably not for you."
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Globetrotter Baltic States Travel Guide, by Robin McKelvie |
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 Robin McKelvie’s Globetrotter Baltic States Travel Guide has just been published by New Holland (£6.99). Robin has been travelling the region at least once a year since 1998 and has also worked on books on Latvia and Estonia, as well as having written more than 50 articles on the region.
He apparently cannot decide which he thinks is the finest of the magnificent Baltic capitals – with Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius to choose from, it’s an impossible task.
The book covers all three in detail as well as world class beaches, unspoilt countryside, swathes of history and everything else you need to know about this dynamic and no longer forgotten region of Europe.
‘Rather confusingly, legendary rock oddball Frank Zappa has no connection with Vilnius or indeed Lithuania, but a statue of him now stands in the capital,’ reveals Robin. ‘This is perhaps more due to the pioneering attitudes of the newly independent nation in the 1990s, when the local authorities were reluctant to say no to anything, rather than a national love of Zappa.’
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“On good days, Sylt is a lithesome figure that dances on the edge of the North Sea. A sort of nymph that guards access to Jutland behind. On dull days, Sylt just lies sullen, shrouded by charcoal cloud, and the lazy waves leave their murky flotsam on the beach. But it is on wild days that Sylt really comes alive in its watery solitude. The winter storms often bring a taste of sorrow.”
By Nicky Gardner, writing about the north Frisian island of Sylt in the March 2008 issue of hidden europe magazine (page 27). Courtesy of hidden europe magazine (www.hiddeneurope.co.uk). |
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