Europe On A Shoestring: Go Further, Stay Longer, Pay Less

This book has been with us on multiple budget trips to Europe. It is huge and heavy if you are truly focused on packing light you may just want to rip out sections. But because our Europe plans have always been somewhat up in the air we have always taken the whole thing, and it has really helped out! Just this month when we went to Europe, we hopped off the plane and drove about 30 minuets out of the Frankfurt airport before we realized we forgot to get a map at the rental car counter. Not to worry, we had our mega-Europe book with us and managed to get all the way to Brussels just off the maps in this book. The book covers all of Europe, so does not go into too much detail on each place and many small towns are left out. But that is sort of a necessary evil for this type of book. Plus when you travel on a whim like we do, its better to keep it short and sweet. We are never that prepared when we arrive somewhere and I think the book knows we don’t have the patience to really research and buy a separate guidebook for each place. For students who are studying abroad and plan on traveling all around Europe after the semester but haven’t decided where to go, this is the kind of book they need. This was the book we needed.