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  Europe by Eurail
One of train traveler’s one-stop resource for visiting the Continent by rail for more than thirty years. This time-tested and reader-friendly guide, newly revised and updated, is packed with all the information you need on more than ninety rail trips starting from your choice of twenty-four base cities located in seventeen countries. With your rail pass in hand, you can explore each country’s special attractions and learn about European life and culture. Including step-by-step directions and advice on where to go and what to see and do, this book helps take the puzzle out of rail travel on the Continent.

Helpful guide for making the most out of your Rail Pass while in Europe. I wouldn't recommend this as your primary guide, but it is good to read before you go.


 

First Time Europe a Rough Guide Special
"Looking to answer some pre-trip questions? This handy, entertaining, "How-to" manual
is the ideal planning tool for travelers to Europe. Focused on the nuts and bolts of travel -
saving money, staying healthy and getting the most out of your trip - this unique Rough
Guide features a wealth of visa, public transport, accommodation, and communication
information, and even includes advice on cultural do's and don'ts as well as a helpful
index of phrases in 15 languages. "

This is a cheap book with a wealth of very helpful information for the first time traveler to Europe.


  Western Europe Itineraries
So you're heading to Europe - that's a lot of continent to cover. We've combined the Itineraries chapters from 13 different guidebooks and put them into one handy volume. Each chapter provides suggested trips to suit your tastes and time frames, so if you're wondering how best to spend two days in Ireland, a week in Germany or a month on the Continent, this is the CUSTOM guide for you.

This book includes:
- Mapped itineraries for major Western European hotspots
- Multiple itineraries for each destination, including classic routes, trips tailored to your interests and journeys off the beaten track
- Pre-trip planning information
- A guide to the local languages you'll encounter
- Thorough transport details - where and how to go

  Rick Steve's Best of Europe 2010
Helpful book for planning your itinerary, but not an ideal on the road guide to carry.

Amazon.com Description
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when planning a Grand Tour of Europe. In this guide, Rick covers the best of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. You’ll find a healthy mix of big cities, small towns, and exciting regions, such as London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Prague, and Barcelona. Also included are Rothenberg, Siena, Toledo, Hallstatt, and Gimmelwald, as well as Provence, the French Riviera, the Romantic Road, the Berner Oberland, and the Cinque Terre. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You’ll learn how to find the right bus in Rome, an inexpensive crêpe in Paris, and which museums and sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.
 

Rick Steves' Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler
Rick Steves' Europe 101 gives you a practical grounding in art history to thoroughly enrich your sightseeing experience. Throughout the book you'll find handy lists of sights that allow you to use your newly acquired knowledge to plan your upcoming trip. Rick's unique approach, along with maps, timelines, and illustrations, makes this "professor in your pocket" an essential tool - whether you're a first-time visitor to Europe or a seasoned art traveler. Organized chronologically from prehistoric Europe to the modern world, this new edition is completely updated with new illustrations, photos, and maps.

 

The World Awaits

Excerpt from back of book:
"Many thousands of independent, adventurous Americans travel for extended periods in foreign lands every year.  On journeys counted in week and months, the modern explorers seek to discover and desire to be amazed, following itineraries shaped more by imagination than geography.  Most travel on a budget; all travel simply.  For these people, the desire for freedom and experience is too potent to ignore. "    ------Paul Otteson

Ever thought about grabbing a backpack and hitting the road?  You can do it!  Featuring dozens of photographs, The World Awaits offers encouragement and practical advice for independent travelers of all ages.  Experienced globetrotter Paul Otteson provides all the details you'll need to plan a fulfilling journey, traveling only with what you can fit in your pack on your back.  Topics covered include:

  • Travel Goals --what motivates us to travel
  • Travel Approaches--including a unique new approach called "threading"
  • Travel Preparation--how to plan, purchase, pack, and go
  • Life on the Road--how to meet the challenges of new languages, cultures, and politics

I really enjoyed reading this book.  Paul Otteson's insights on travel are fascinating and very helpful for a first time adventurer.  Definitely read this book before you go!--Kaaryn


 

The Frugal Globetrotter
In this comprehensive budget travel resource, the author reveals how to get a lot of travel excitement for a little price with low-cost travel options available from air couriers, around-the-world airline ticket brokers, domestic and international air charters, auto drive-aways, offbeat adventure travel companies, and many other resources.

Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking 'Round Europe
Product Description:
Backpacking through Europe for the first time changes your life. New friendships are forged over a bottle of cheap wine; old friends go their separate ways; you fall in love in the first town and forget about it in the second. You get bored with wearing the same clothes, tired of sleeping in crowded dorms…yet you still have an unforgettable, fantastic time.

In Rite of Passage, backpackers taking their all-important first visit to Europe tell it like it really is. They describe crossing the language barrier in Corfu, meeting the locals in Prague, surviving hostel life in London, finding love in Paris and overindulging in Greece.

Rite of Passage is the perfect companion for backpackers – the stories are raw and fresh, inspirational and honest, and cut straight to the heart of the European travel experience.

Europe from a Backpack: Real Stories from Young Travelers Abroad

Fifty-eight real stories from young travelers abroad offer the budget, independent, and youth traveler vivid first-person accounts of the countries and experiences of backpackers, students, and sojourners. Offering more than just traveling facts, this guide actually invites readers to see, taste, and experience European adventures-from sneaking into Rome's Coliseum to running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. These backpackers relate experiences that people with suitcases and reservations wouldn't necessarily experience, including sleeping in streets and hostels, 24 hours of clubbing on the Spanish island of Ibiza, and train-travel debacles. The stories offer dozens of glimpses of the most worthwhile destinations in 11 of Europe's most well-traveled countries, not to mention lesser-known lands revealed in the "Off the Beaten Path" section. This collection of youthful adventures will keep aspiring travelers laughing, wondering, and walking with the storytellers who take them inside Europe's must-see places. Countries explored include Amsterdam, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Party Europe

The perfect supplement to traditional guidebooks, Party Europe's pages are packed with over reviews of fun and social, day and night activities in the hottest European destinations. The unique manner in which it is written enables young travelers to customize reviews to match their own definition of fun in order to maximize every moment of their time abroad.

 
 

Destinations: A Travel Journal
Product Description:
This portable and supple leather-bound journal features antique color illustrations as well as indispensable travel facts and modern-day information. Along with plenty of pages for recording adventures abroad, there is a roomy pocket for mementos, making this a beautifully distinctive keepsake book for travelers.

128 pages for you to record your travels


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