Independent Travellers Europe by Rail 2005 : The Inter-railer's and Eurailer's Guide

by Tim Locke, Ethel Davies, Sevil Delin, Jane Foster, Will Hardie, Dr Annie Kay, Susie Lunt, Robin McKelvie, Jennifer Morris, Caroline Oldfield, JJ Smith, Dan Taylor, Mark Thomas, Wendy Wood, Barry Worthington

• ISBN13: 9781841574219
• ISBN10: 184157421X
• Edition: Miniature
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing

Summary

Independent Travellers Europe by Rail is an original and practical guide to traveling around this diverse cultural and historic continent on a budget and with a rail pass. Revised annually, it is crammed with suggested rail routes and city chapters, and points towards budget options for accommodations, transportation, eating out, and sightseeing. The guide comes with its own tailored free mini weblinks CD.

Author Biography

Compiled by an enthusiastic team of travel writers who rode the rails for months on end to create this book: Ethel Davies, Sevil Delin, Jane Foster, Will Hardie, Dr Annie Kay, Susie Lunt, Jennifer Morris, Caroline Oldfield, Jeremy Smith, Dan Taylor, Mark Thomas, Wendy Wood, and Barry Worthington.

Excerpts

"The cornerstone of Western civilisation, Italy has been firmly on the tourist map since the days of the 18th-century 'Grand Tour'. There is so much to experience that it isn't necessary to make a literal grand tour of the entire country at one go. You can get a good sample by, for instance, keeping to the hills and medieval cities of Tuscany, or heading down from Rome to Sicily, or combining Lake Como and Lake Garda with the Dolomites--which include some of the most astonishing mountain shapes in the Alps--plus maybe Verona and Venice. The rail network covers all of this, except for the Dolomites, which can be visited by taking a bus from Bolzano."

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