This new book from Farrol Kahn gives you an insight to the people & places of Crans-Montana, known for its openness to accept all-comers. In fact this is more of personal guide to Crans-Montana than a traditional travel guide; it is about the people who live, work & make the town what it is. The listings, from the prestigious Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club to the cafes & restaurants, hotels, health & wellness to property services, shopping, art & culture, & local produce are accompanied by details, anecdotes & photographs. This book is the equivalent of a local showing you around & suggesting activities & things you can do, & introducing you to the people who run the establishments, their thoughts, philosophy & stories. What makes Crans-Montana so unique is not only its panorama, its year-round sunshine, the fantastic run from the glacier on Plaine Morte all the way down a 6, 000 foot vertical drop to the village, but its spectacularly scenic golf courses where the ball travels much further because of the high altitude. But insiders know there is more to Crans-Montana than just the high plateau. It comprises medieval villages & families like the Barras & Bonvin that go back to the 13th & 14th century respectively. There is also the tradition of vertical living through seasonal migration, from the vineyards near the Rhone to the Alpine meadows & in-between. Above all, it is about the people. In a research programme on air pollution, the Swiss Federal government found that the cleanest air in the country was in Crans-Montana. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Because real life isn`t an Enchanted Kingdom. Crap Colouring by Joe Summer contains over a hundred pages of age-appropriate adult colouring in. From shopping trolleys to speed-bumps, leaves on the line & detailed grey clouds, here are all life`s little annoyances for you to brighten up. Classic British humour with a colouring-in twist, pick up those colouring pencils & get venting! ...

Application for Employment I refer to the recent death of the Technical Manager at your company & hereby apply for the replacement of the deceased manager. Each time I apply for a job, I get a reply that there is no vacancy but in this case I have caught you red-handed & you have no excuse because I even attended the funeral to be sure that he was truly dead & buried before applying. Attached to my letter is a copy of my CV & his death certificate. Crap CVs is a hilarious compilation of the worst job applications imaginable, including overly-honest cover letters, embarrassing typos, mortifying personal revelations, awkward interview questions, misplaced self-confidence, self-aggrandizing gibberish, blatant truth-twisting &, of course, outright lies. ...

Graffiti. It can be a diverse form of expression & thought provoking art; whether painted on the side of a train or on a canvas hanging in a gallery. Or, as you will see immortalised in the glorious pages of ” Crap Graffiti”, it can be crude drunken daubing, nonsensical statements or hilarious outpourings of uncontained rage. ” Crap Graffiti” documents these bizarre & puerile creations, celebrates the inept & enthusiastically applauds creative dyslexia. This is definitely not art, but really awful, lame graffiti: the incompetent attempts of beginners or the `profound` musings of lunatics scrawled on the back of toilet cubicle doors. Welcome to the Cream of the Crap. ...

The worst cookbook ever, packed with truly bizarre & utterly disgusting recipes from all over the world Ever since humankind produced its first foodie, the culinary world has dished up some staggering confections which could best be described as `acquired tastes`: dishes such as Virgin Boy Eggs (eggs soaked in the urine of prepubescent boys); live octopus, which clutches at the diner`s tongue & throat as it is swallowed; & Beard Beer, made from the yeast found in facial hair. In northern Greenl&, the Inuit are fond of cramming as many as 500 dead auks (small sea birds) into an old seal skin which they place under a large rock until the birds have fermented into what has rightly been described as a `sticky, pungent, toxic, cheesy gloop`. Kiviak, as it is called, is eaten by biting off the birds` heads & sucking out the juices. The mighty Roman Empire was built on such delicacies as larks` tongues, stuffed thrush, boiled flamingo & grilled cow`s womb, while the Tudors loved nothing more than a roast cockenthrice: the head & upper body of a pig carefully stitched onto the lower body & legs of a turkey. Today, for those with an adventurous mindset & a robust life insurance policy, there is no shortage of nauseating local delicacies to enjoy. In China, not only is tuna eyeball on the menu, but also yak penis (served whole). In Vietnam, one can enjoy the still-beating heart of a freshly-killed snake; in Icel&, raw puffin heart. In the Philippines, there is duck embryo to be had
- like a Kinder Surprise.. .only containing a dead foetus instead of a toy. In Sardinia, they like nothing more than a nice bit of maggot-infested cheese; & the favourite tipple of Korean foodies is Ttongsul, a wine made from the fermented faeces of a child. Bon appetit!
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You won`t know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site`s plethora of bad taxidermy examples
- including a squirrel riding a rattlesnake like a cowboy, & various anatomically imaginative renderings of all creatures great & small
- have proved hugely popular. Here the very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features including a DIY ` Stuff Your Own Mouse` lesson, & an author`s introduction to the craze for getting stuffed.

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' Our national genius is knocking things down.' Jim White, Daily Telegraph From inner city poverty to self-satisfied middle Engl&, from the dull & the lifeless to the ugly & the depressing, Dan Kieran & Sam Jordison are back with a brand new list of towns
- & this time it's personal. Inspired by the success of the contentious survey, published in the Idler & in book form in Boxtree's smash hit Crap Towns, residents of the original 50 towns, along with plenty of new towns will have their say in Crap Towns II: To Hull & Back on why Britain isn't just the place of warm beer, cosy bed & breakfasts & amiable old gits that some travel books would have us believe. This brand new list of 50 towns will include new entries, non-movers & a new number one based on the public's reaction to the burnt out cars, shell suits, cheap shoe shops & housing estates patrolled by rabid dogs & feral kids that scar the face of this glorious kingdom. Are the disgruntled residents of Hull right to consider their town the worst place to live in the country? Crap Towns II will find out.
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The genuinely rough guide to Britain is back. Ten years after it first lifted the concrete slab in the garden of Engl&, Crap Towns returns to dish the dirt on the latest planning disasters, urban blight & posh blighters disfiguring our nation. ` My friends & I once spent an evening in Thetford. Some people threw a cucumber at us.` ` Southampton: the only place in the UK I`ve ever seen someone get on a bus & nonchalantly spark up a crack pipe.` ` Bacup long claimed to have the shortest street in Britain
- Elgin Street
- but recently lost the title to Ebeneezer Place, an even shorter street in Wick, to the fury of locals, who complained that the Scottish rival was only `a corner`.`

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