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Updated annually, Independent Travellers Guides concentrate on the most relevant and useful facts and tips on budget travel, accommodation and eating. As well as practical advice, the wealth of background information helps you to experience the destination, not just visit it. Each guide sets out a series of routes that make the best use of all the transport options trains, buses, car hire, flights with detailed information on distances and timings. Everything you need to make backpacking easy.
No world region contains so many varied and independent nations as Europe, and yet its well-integrated rail system and the cheapness of international railpasses make the continent easy to explore not only the must see cities and landscapes but also the lesser-known delights waiting to be discovered. Independent Travellers Europe by Rail has drawn on the train travel expertise of Thomas Cook to devise a menu of connected rail journeys that take in the best that Europe has to offer, with plenty of recommendations on accommodation, eating and sightseeing to make your travel budget go a long way.
The essential volume for anyone intending to travel around Europe by train.” The Sunday Times
The indispensable Inter-railers guide to budget Europe.” - Wanderlust
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The essential volume for anyone intending to travel around Europe by train.” The Sunday Times The indispensable Inter-railers guide to budget Europe.” - Wanderlust
Synopsis
Independent Travellers Europe by Rail has drawn on the train travel expertise of Thomas Cook, publishers of the European Timetable since 1873, to devise a menu of connected rail journeys that take in the best that Europe has to offer. No world region contains so many varied and independent nations as Europe. Its well-integrated rail system and the cheapness of international railpasses make the continent easy to explore. Independent Travellers Europe by Rail comes with plenty of recommendations on accommodation, eating and sightseeing to make your travel budget go a long way.
Synopsis
Independent Travellers guides offer 'everything you need, nothing you don't'. Updated annually, they present only the most relevant, useful and interesting facts, tips and advice.
Table of Contents
General Information:
- Introduction, Europe Map, Route Map, European Through Trains, How to use this Book, Price Guide, Travelling around Europe, Rail Passes, Rail Travel, Other Methods of Travel in Europe, Walking in Europe, Cycling in Europe
Routes
- Across Europe: International Routes
- United Kingdom: London, Crossing to Continental Europe
- France: Paris, Calais-Paris-Toulouse, Cherbourg-Paris-Strasbourg, Paris-Tours-Bordeaux, Paris-Lyon-Marseille, Biarritz-Carcassonne-Marseille, Marseille-Nice-Menton, Beziers-Clermont-Ferrant-Nimes, Corsica, Toulouse-Perpignan-Barcelona
- Spain, Portugal and Morocco: Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona-Madrid-Lisbon, Madrid-Segovia-Salamanca, Lisbon-Oporto-Santiago, San Sebastian-Burgos-Santiago, Malaga, Granada-Cadiz, Visiting Morocco
- Benelux: Amsterdam, Brussels, Ostend-Brussels-Luxemburg, Amsterdam-Gouda-Amsterdam
- Germany: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Aachen-Hannover-Berlin, Hannover-Hamburg-Luebeck, Coogne-Wuerzburg-Passau, Munich-Heidelberg-Konstanz, Munich-Weimar-Berlin, Munich-Innsbruck-Verona
- Switzerland: Zuerich, Lausanne-Basel-Milan, Berne-Interlaken-Geneva, Berne-Lucerne-Milan
- Austria: Vienna, Innsbruck-Salzburg-Vienna
- Italy: Florence, Milan, Naples, Rome, Venice, Ventimiglia-Genoa-Pisa, Pisa-Siena-Orvieto, Milan-Venice-Trieste, Bologna-Assisi-Rome, Rome-Naples-Palermo, Sardinia
- Croatia and Slovenia: Ljubljana-Split-Dubrovnik, Salzburg-Rijeka-Osijek
- Scandinavia: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen-Odense-Gothenburg, Copenhagen-Gothenburg-Oslo, Oslo-Bergen-Oslo, Oslo-Trondheim-Boden, Copenhagen-Malmoe-Stockholm, Stockholm-Oulu-Helsinki, Helsinki-Oulu
- Baltic States: St Petersburg, Vilnius-Tallinn-St Petersburg
- Poland: Warsaw, Poznan-Krakow-Zakopane
- Czech Republic and Slovakia: Prague-Bratislava-Poprad-Tatry
- South-East Europe: Athens, Budapest, Istanbul, Bratislava-Bucharest-Istanbul, Athens-Thessaloniki-Plovdiv
Reference Section:
- Directory, Conversion Tables, Index