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in this video I'm going to talk to you
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about cruising books that will help you
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find discover and have incredible
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cruises i'm gary Bembridge of tips for
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travelers now one of the things that
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I've done is written a couple of books
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about cruising one of the reasons I did
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that is I struggled to find books that
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really helped with cruising there's lots
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of resources videos blogs things like
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there's not many good old-fashioned
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books now when I first got into cruising
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one of the greatest books that I found
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was this book which is the Berlitz guide
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to cruise and cruising it's written by a
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guy called Douglas Ward and he's
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basically spends all year on board ships
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and it's a great book it's fantastic
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because what it does it talks a little
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bit about what cruising is it talks
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about the different cruise lines it
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talks about every single ship it rates
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every single ship and it gives guidance
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for every single ship it's updated every
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single year I found it really helpful
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and certainly when our increasing I used
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to take it with me and the different
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ships that are so important are they be
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able to look up and better understand
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about those ships and if they were for
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me what I'm gonna talk about now
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actually all the books that I've created
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to try and help cruisers the first of
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these is this book here this book is
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called the cruise travelers handbook now
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it's part of a series of handbooks which
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include things like family travel solar
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travel volunteer travel career break
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travel there's an I wrote the one about
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cruising and in this book what I do is I
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talk about all different types of
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cruising but it's ocean cruising river
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cruising I also talk about you know more
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unusual types of cruising such as barges
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and also if you want to you know should
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go cruising on freights it's a really
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good guide for first-time cruisers it
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contains all sorts of information about
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everything from norovirus to seasickness
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to what you'd expect on board what the
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role of people onboard so it's a really
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good guide particularly the first time a
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cruiser so that you can actually find
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both in paperback version and also as a
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digital download now the next book that
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I have is called essential cruise tips
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what every cruiser needs to know so this
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goes into much more depth so whilst the
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Khrushchev as handbook gives a good
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overview of all sorts of cruising this
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gets into very specific detail on lots
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and lots of areas so for example in the
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excursion area it will go
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lots of detail about the different
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options you can have or good
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recommendations on different providers
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you can do it we'll discuss the pros and
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cons is lots of detailing things like
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packing dress coats so the crews Travis
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handbook was a great overview the
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essential cruise tips goes into lots and
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lots of detail that is only available as
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a digital download now if you're
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interested in river cruising I have a
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book called European river cruising tips
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tricks and advice that basically talks
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about european river cruising it talks
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about in some depth about some of the
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providers some of the options and
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provides general tips and advice around
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european river cruising this book like
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the other books that I write is
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constantly updated and one of the great
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things particularly if you download it
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digitally is you should be alerted when
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there's new editions or versions
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available and you can update it with the
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latest information so as I learned new
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things as I experience different cruise
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lines as things change in the industry I
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update but the essential cruise tips and
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the european river cruising the book the
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next two books are very specific and
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they're about canard I have one book
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which is called cruising with Kunar this
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is a very extensive book and it talks
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about kanata in great detail the other
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canard book I've got is around doing the
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world cruises with canard and the book
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here is called taking a world cruise
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with canard Cruise Line and what this
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does is it documents a world cruise so
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it basically takes you through day by
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the experience of going on a world
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cruise which is what I did and talks
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about you know what happens across each
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day and is packed full with lots of
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advice lots of tips all the sort of
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things you could expect you're also has
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chapters on planning for and making sure
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you get the most of a world closer to us
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about the things you need to think about
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prepare for at home you know budget for
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as I mentioned if you want to find any
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of this books the links are in the show
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notes or simply on Amazon to search for
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Gary Bembridge so the key books are the
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cruise drivers handbook which is
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available impact back in digital
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essential cruise tips what every cruiser
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needs to know european river cruising
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tips tricks and advice cruising with
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Cunard and taking a world cruise with
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q-not Cruise Line so there you have it
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there's some great books hopefully about
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cruising as I mentioned you have that
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let's guide to cruising cruising by
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Douglas Ward it's a fantastic book and
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the reason I've done many of these other
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books is because I just felt there was a
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real opportunity to find other books on
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cruising that I just couldn't find I
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