Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2014
by Rick Steves
Avalon Travel Publishing | August 2013 | ISBN-10: 1612386431 | ePUB | 791 pages | 26.6 mb

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 light—and 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 Europe, Rick considers this travel skills handbook his life’s work. He shares his favorite off-the-beaten-path towns, trails, and natural wonders. With this guidebook, you’ll experience the culture like a local, spend less money, and have more fun.

About the Author
Rick Steves has spent 100 days every year since 1973 exploring Europe. Rick produces a public television series (Rick Steves' Europe), a public radio show (Travel with Rick Steves), and an app and podcast (Rick Steves Audio Europe); writes a bestselling series of guidebooks and a nationally syndicated newspaper column; organizes guided tours that take thousands of travelers to Europe annually; and offers an information-packed website (RickSteves.com). With the help of his hardworking staff of 80 at Europe Through the Back Door—in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle—Rick's mission is to make European travel fun, affordable, and culturally broadening for Americans.
Rick Steves spends about a third of every year in Europe, researching guidebooks, filming TV shows, and making new discoveries for travelers. He lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.

CONTENTS
Index
Map Index
Preface

Part One: Travel Skills
Introduction, Budgeting and Planning, Paper Chase, 
Pack Light, 
Flying, 
Trains and More, 
Driving, 
Money, Sleeping, 
Phones and Technology, 
City Transportation, 
Sightseeing and Activities, 
Theft and Scams, Language and Communication, 
Eating, Health and Hygiene, 
Travel Styles, 
Perspectives

Part Two: Back Doors
Map: Europe’s Back Doors, 
Italy, Portugal, Spain & Morocco, France, 
Belgium and the Netherlands, 
Germany, Austria & Switzerland, 
Eastern Europe, 
Great Britain, 
Ireland, Scandinavia, 
A European Sampler, 
East Mediterranean

Part Three: Appendix
Sample Routes, 
Graffiti Wall, 
Resources, 
Credits