Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2013: The Travel Skills Handbook
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe, including how to:
Plan your itinerary and maximize your time
Pack lightand right
Find good-value hotels and restaurants
Travel smoothly by train, bus, car, and plane
Avoid crowds and tourist scams
Hurdle the language barrier
Understand cultural differences and connect with locals
Save money while enjoying the trip of a lifetime
After 30 years of exploring Euro
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Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2013: The Travel Skills Handbook
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Must read for any travel newbies!,
I am a well-seasoned traveler with international experience but will be visiting Paris for the first time this spring…as always I extensively “review” the ins n’ outs of visiting any new place and have been reading several travelguides and other literature on the City of Lights. I stumbled across Rick Steve’s book and, always hating not to be ‘in the know’, ordered the book and have just completed it over the holiday. Excellent!! Spot on and filled with valuable information and insights – especially useful for the unseasoned traveler although even for a well-honed visiter to far afields I found some great nuggets of valuable info. One difference is that although I love a bargain I prefer a bit more ‘up scale’ accomodations and ease than the target audience for Rick but am, like the individuals he is writing for, someone who prefers to go off the travel group grid and plunge into other cultures and places and peoples. The book is especially useful to shed off the Ugly American Tourist practices that all too many traveling folks from the USA bring along on board with their checked baggage (I’ve seen the UATs myself and it ain’t purdy). I would make this mandatory reading for those delving into travel abroad if I could!
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|spend your money on rick steve’s europe,
little disappointed as it didn’t have much on accomodation,just more general info for traveling in europe that you could get in his other books
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|Can’t wait to go!,
I’m so glad I purchased this handbook…..I’ve been reading several books on
travelling in Europe and they all have given me a greater understanding of
what to expect……but Rick’s book really puts the icing on the travel cake…
Thanks for sharing your wisdom…..can’t wait to go!
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