Rick Steves Europe Through The Back Door

Rick s 48 itineraries include italy france turkey ireland britain spain and much more.

Rick steves europe through the back door.

If you bring one from home make sure it s empty before you go through airport security fill it at a drinking fountain once you re through. Since 1973 rick steves has spent about four months a year exploring europe. Find virtual experiences travel blogs tours and more offered by rick steves europe guides. Look for a large capacity tote bag that rolls up into a pocket size pouch.

Rick steves european tours and vacations feature the best value and travel experience around. Our essential handbook for how to plan and enjoy a trip to europe designed to be read before you go with in depth advice on planning packing saving money avoiding lines staying healthy leaping the language barrier finding a bathroom and lots more. Rick steves europe through the back door. In 2006 he became a syndicated newspaper columnist and in 2010 his company released a mobile phone application called rick steves audio europe.

Rick produces a best selling guidebook series a public television series and a public radio show and organizes small group tours that take over 30 000 travelers to europe annually. In 2010 we marked the 30th anniversary of the first edition of rick s budget travel handbook europe through the back door compiled from his travel on a shoestring experiences in the late 1970s rick sweet talked his girlfriend into typing it on a rented ibm selectric and his college roommate into doing the illustrations with a ball point pen. To empower americans to have european trips that are fun affordable and culturally broadening. A fundamental part of enjoying travel in europe is finding places that i call back doors when i first started traveling back doors to me were europe s undiscovered corners and untrampled towns that had for various reasons missed the modern parade like dingle on ireland s western edge or portugal s salema tucked away on the southern coast.

Explore europe with rick steves travel guide to the best destinations and recommended sights things to do tips and videos along with much more travel information. Watch all of rick s tv shows right here. The plastic half liter mineral water bottles sold throughout europe are reusable and work great. This month we re featuring sicily.

Steves also has a public radio travel show called travel with rick steves 2005 present and has authored numerous travel guides the first of which was the popular europe through the back door.