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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, including:London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Prague, and BarcelonaRothenberg, Siena, Toledo, Hallstatt, and GimmelwaldProvence, the French Riviera, the Romantic Road, the Berner Oberland, and the Cinque TerreRick’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.

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"The Rough Guide First-Time Europe" tells you everything you need to know before you go to Europe, from visas and vaccinations to budgets and packing. It will help you plan the best possible trip, with advice on when to go and what not to miss, and how to avoid trouble on the road. You'll find insightful information on what tickets to buy, where to stay, what to eat and how to stay healthy and save money in Europe. "The Rough Guide First-Time Europe" includes insightful overviews of each European country highlighting the best places to visit with country-specific websites, clear maps, suggested reading and budget information. Be inspired by the full-colour 'things not to miss' section whilst useful contact details will help you plan your route. All kinds of advice and anecdotes from travellers who've been there and done it will make travelling stress-free. "The Rough Guide First-Time Europe" has everything you need to get your journey underway.

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The fourth edition of the essential book for everyone who wants to find one of the many thousands of jobs that arise during the skiing season in Europe, the USA and Canada. Working in Ski Resorts explains how to find a job as a ski instructor, disc jockey, chef, courier, chalet girl or boy, shop assistant, au pair, resort rep, ski lift attendant, ski technician, courier, snow cleaner etc. from Verbier to Vail, Banff to Borovets and Andorra to Aviemore.For those who wish to arrange a job in advance the book includes a directory of ski tour operators that lists their projected staff requirements, wages and the addresses to contact. But it also includes reports on the prospects for finding work on the spot in over 80 resorts in Europe and North America that give inside information on where the best jobs are to be found and explains where to find affordable accommodation.

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This manual covers the whole of Europe and gives country by country information on hitching techniques, route planning, sources of free maps and attitudes towards hitch-hikers. Includes a town guide of Europe's largest cities and maps of the principal motorways which reveal the best hitching points. The guide also includes cheap and free ways of crossing the channel, reading foreign number plates, hitch-hiking agencies, the law, a hitch-hiking vocabulary in ten languages and the best and worst places to hitch in Europe.

Price: $0.78  $10.78