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Travelers can count on Rick Steves to tell them what they really need to know when traveling in Vienna, Salzburg, and Tirol. Self-guided walking tours lead visitors to the Hofburg Castle and the magnificent gardens in Salzburg. Experience the culture like a local with a bike ride in the countryside or indulge in Viennese chocolate at Demel?s Caf?. With up-to-date advice on which sights are worth your time and money and suggestions on good-value hotels and restaurants, Rick (more…)

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Relax in the Sz?chenyi Medicinal Baths, observe the incredible neo-Gothic architecture of the Parliament building, and stroll along the historic banks of the Danube at sunset ? Rick Steves? Budapest allows any traveler to experience all that the country has to offer ? economically and hassle-free. Rick knows the best ways to explore Budapest, offering tips on accommodations, transportation, and must-see sights that will save visitors time and money. Whether your interests (more…)

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Steves clearly knows his stuff – the archaeological sites he does remarkably well – and his guide has a ringing actuality about it….It’s full of informative and very readable maps, including a driving chart that not only gives the distances between places, but the time it takes to get there – the two don’t always correlate in Greece. Given its candid and humorous style, you’re bound to see plenty of well-thumbed copies (it comes in a pocket-friendly elongated size) in to (more…)

Buon giorno! From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter. This handy guide provides key phrases for use in everyday circumstances, complete with phonetic spelling; an English-Italian and Italian-English dictionary; the latest information on Euro (more…)

From train and rail-pass skills to strategies for visiting museums, who else but Rick Steves can teach travelers the skills they really need when traveling through Europe? Learn how to deal with all of the details of planning a trip to Europe with Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2008. America’s number one authority on travel to Europe, Rick Steves has done the legwork, discovered the secrets, and made the mistakes — so travelers don’t have to. Completely revised and (more…)

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Steves preaches a low-cost, low-to-the-ground style that not only saves money, but gets you closer to the real Europe, the way Europeans experience it.
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Check out works by Rembrandt and Van Gogh and bike along canals fringed with Dutch elm trees—with Rick Steves’ Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels, travelers can experience the best of this world-class destination—economically and ha (more…)

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If you’re planning your Continental tour, or just heading Europewards and letting the winds of fate waft you this way and that, you’ll want some language assistance, preferably in a form that doesn’t require an extra set of luggage. Rick Steves, noted Europe expert and writer of candid, accurate, and entertaining guide books, has a phrase book and dictionary that contains the three major languages you’re likely to encounter in ramble around Europe or a tre (more…)

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“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 simplici (more…)nintendo wii console