March is a good time for a city break in Copenhagen. Wander round the compact city centre, spot the famous Little Mermaid, and dip in and out of the waterfront cafes. Late March to early April sees the NatFilm Festival taking place throughout the many cinemas.
Where to go in March - Copenhagen
Copenhagen on laminated, tear- resistant paper with an indexed street plan of the city, maps of the Copenhagen area and a diagram of the metro.
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A condensed format guide featuring dozens of illustrated, top ten lists for all travellers regardless of their disposable budget.
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By Peter Høeg, the Danish author of Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow. Kasper Krone is a world renowned clown with exceptional powers of hearing and a deep love of Bach’s music, but…
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Walk of the month: Southstoke and Cam Valley, Somerset
Here is the first in a series of walks Christopher Somerville will be compiling for Stanfords' readers to follow in the Bristol area each month.
The houses of Southstoke, built of the same pale silver and cream oolitic limestone as their Big Brother city of Bath just over the hill, were lightly dusted with powder snow on this cold winter’s morning. Over the porch of the Church of St James the Great, a Millennium carving of the much-travelled Apostle showed him staring with seer’s eyes from the shelter of a pilgrim’s scallop shell...
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Special offer: 3 for 2 on walking guidebooks and maps
Prepare for a spring of great walks and get three for the price of two on these renowned walking guidebooks and maps in our stores this month: Trailblazer guides; Jarrold Pathfinder & Short Walk Guides; AA 50 Walks series, 100 Walks series and 30 Walks in a Box; Cicerone guides; Aurum guides; and OS large-scale 1:50k and 1:25k maps.
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Upcoming Events
Richard Mabey: A Brush with Nature
16 Mar 7:30pm, Bristol
Join us for this talk with Richard Mabey - a prize-winning writer and botanist described by The Times as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer'.
Monty Halls lunchtime book signing: The Great Escape: Adventures on the Wild West Coast
20 Mar 2:00pm, Bristol
Take this opportunity to meet Monty Halls between 2-3pm as he signs copies of The Great Escape: Adventures on the Wild West Coast as seen on BBC TV and now out in paperback.
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Palma with a wheel chair and Nan
I recently took my grandmother, who is heavily dependent on her wheelchair, to Palma, Mallorca. A friend had advised me that Palma was a suitably wheelchair-friendly destination – this advice proved to be ill-informed...
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Mallorca with Mum
It had been a murky, long winter, Mother’s Day was approaching, and mum and I felt we needed some valuable catching up time together. We started fishing around the internet for a cheap, last-minute break, preferably with some sunshine thrown in.
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Five minutes; five questions with… Simon Calder
It’s been a while since our last interview with the intrepid travel editor and broadcaster, so we caught up with Simon while he was shooting his latest travel film in our Covent Garden store.
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With the kids
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