Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2004: The Travel Skills Handbook (Paperback)
by admin, on May 21, 2009 | category: Travel Plugs, 2004, Back, Door, Europe, Handbook, Rick, Skills, Steves, Through, Travel | 10 comments
Amazon.com Review”The more money you spend, the bigger the wall you build between yourself and the culture you traveled so far to visit. Stay in the small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. You’ll spend less money and have a great time in the process.” This is Rick Steves’s “back door” travel philosophy. For more than 25 years, he has traveled and led tours around Europe, finding and sharing the joy of simplicity and (more…)
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“Tourists are learning that the image of the terrible Turk is false, created to a great degree by it unfriendly neighbors.
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Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door presents a philosophy that many tourists seem to lack: When in Europe, ACT like you’re in Europe!
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Rick is a good travel guide, just not a good WRITER
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Not a guide book… a HOW-TO book
This is a great book for those first timers to Europe. Those that don’t know what to expect. It tells you what to pack, how to create an itinerary, booking flights, how to get…