Presents a guide to touring Europe by train, offering information on schedules, fares, destinations, rail passes, and tourist facilities, outlining day trips and longer itineraries, and providing directions for getting to and from train stations.
Europe by Eurail has been the train travelers one-stop source for visiting Europes cities and countries by rail for more than thirty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions.
Inside is all the information you need to visit historic cities, romantic villages, and scenic hamlets on more than ninety rail trips starting from your choice of twenty-eight base cities located in twenty countries. Three sample rail-tour itineraries combine several base cities and day excursions into fifteen-day rail-tour packages complete with hotel recommendations and sightseeing options. .
Packed with practical information, step-by-step directions and advice on where to go and what to see and do, and complemented by the inclusion of twenty maps, this book takes the puzzle out of European Rail Travel.
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How to Use Europe by Eurail |
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LaVerne Ferguson-Kosinski and her late husband, George Ferguson, first coauthored this unique and comprehensive how-to guide in 1980. They also coauthored Britain by BritRail (GPP Travel). A resident of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, she has more than thirty years of experience traveling the rails in Europe.