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Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown - Victoria

Verdera Media celebrates Victoria’s “Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown” by offering exclusive free copies of A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Victoria from February 14 through March 2, 2014!

Taking time out for a coffee is a “west coast” activity much like strolling in the winter rain or enjoying the summer morning sea breeze. The city of Victoria has a well established coffee culture where residents can be found anytime of the day hanging out in one of the many boutique coffee shops. There are many different types of coffee shops in Victoria, from those operated by award winning baristas to funky neighbourhood legends to unique bakeries serving scrumptious desserts with a delicious cup of coffee. Victoria is also home to a number of tea houses for individuals that enjoy a cup of “camellia sinensis.”

A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Victoria is an interactive eGuide designed for iPad that lists over two dozen independently owned and operated coffee shops and tea houses, and speciality bakeries and patisseries. It also includes more than two dozen select tourist sights worth visiting on the way to the next cafe. This interactive eGuide provides users with a unique collection of cultural places to visit and culinary experiences to discover in Victoria.

The location of each tourist sight, coffee and pastry shop, etc., are grouped into five clusters of “neighbourhoods” that make up the inner core of the City of Victoria. Each chapter includes an interactive map highlighting each of the locations. For each location, along with a brief description, there are full colour images, and interactive popovers that provide the address, phone number, and hours of operation, and the website and social media links. A special "Map It!" button allows users to pinpoint the exact location and directions to each place.

A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Victoria has additional relevant links for more information on Victoria, including an interactive map on “Getting There and About.” Embedded within this eGuide is "What is going on – Victoria," a special twitter list of selected tweets of local events and activities. You can tweet directly from within the eGuide to engage with each of the locations, or with other users and friends. 

Join the celebrations and get your exclusive free copy of A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Victoria from the Apple iBookstore from February 14 through to March 2, 2014.

 

 

A Coffee Lover's Guide to Victoria

Verdera Media is pleased to announce the release of their latest publication  – A unique interactive multi-touch eGuide designed for the Apple's iPad platform and Mavericks operating system.

Taking time out for a coffee is a “west coast” activity much like strolling in the winter rain or enjoying the summer morning sea breeze. The city of Victoria has a well established coffee culture where residents can be found anytime of the day hanging out in one of the many boutique coffee shops. Business people meet to discuss deals, students gather to chat and surf the web, and others stop to share local news or plan their next vacation get away. 

There are many different types of coffee shops in Victoria, from those operated by award winning baristas to funky neighbourhood legends to unique bakeries serving scrumptious desserts with a delicious cup of coffee. Victoria is also home to a number of tea houses for individuals that enjoy a cup of “camellia sinensis.”

This interactive eGuide lists over two dozen independently owned and operated coffee shops and tea houses, and speciality bakeries and patisseries. It also includes more than two dozen select tourist sights worth visiting on the way to the next cafe. This interactive eGuide provides users with a unique collection of cultural places to visit and culinary experiences to discover in Victoria.

The location of each tourist sight, coffee and pastry shop, etc., are grouped into five clusters of “neighbourhoods” that make up the inner core of the City of Victoria. Each chapter includes an interactive map highlighting each of the locations. For each location, along with a brief description, there are full colour images, and interactive popovers that provide the address, phone number, and hours of operation, and the website and social media links. A special "Map It!" button allows users to pinpoint the exact location and directions to each place.

The reference section has additional relevant links for more information on Victoria, including an interactive map on “Getting There and About.” Embedded within this eGuide is "What is going on – Victoria," a special twitter list of selected tweets of local events and activities. You can tweet directly from within the eGuide to engage with each of the locations, or with other users and friends. 

I hope you enjoy discovering your next coffee shop with A Coffee Lover’s Guide to Victoria.

Neville

 

 

A special edition of Cioccolatò – Torino Italy

If you missed getting some chocolate for Valentine’s Day or simply have a desire for more, then you may want to mark March 17 – April 3 and a visit to Torino Italy, on your calendar.

The festival Cioccolatò, dedicated to the food of the Gods will include a replica of the peninsula of Italy made entirely in chocolate. More than 13 meters long and weighing about 14 tons, it will be on display in Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Torino Italy, from April 3 to March 17 2011. It will also include major monuments are also made of chocolate, including: the Mole, the Duomo in Milan, the campanile of San Marco in Venice, the Lighthouse of Genoa, the Coliseum in Rome, Male Angevin Naples and many others.

Providing the backdrop for this gigantic chocolate Italy is “I Mille di Cioccolatò – L’Italia del Cioccolato” or “Thousand of Cioccolatò.” Thousands of “made in Italy" varieties of chocolate will be available from the many chocolate partisans "that will invade" the city. They will be offering products for sale, from all the Italian chocolate districts, from the Gianduja District of Piedmont and the chocolate districts of Varese and Belluno, through to the Tuscan Chocolate Valley, the chocolate-making tradition of Umbria, and the South Pole of Chocolate, represented by the chocolate of Modica Sicily.
 
This “mouth-watering” event will conclude with the show “The Italians and Chocolate” which will trace the last 150 years of history of chocolate in Italy. It will describe its evolution from a luxury food only available to the elite to a mass consumption product, with a special focus on the chocolate making tradition of Turin and Piedmont.

To learn more, please visit www.cioccola-to.it