Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook for Independent Travelers

Most guidebooks only tell you where to travel. This one teaches you how to travel to get the most out of your time & money. Rick Steves tells you how to spend less money & have a great time, stay in small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. He draws on more than 20 years of European travel & tour guide experience to give you practical tips on: planning your itinerary: packing light; traveling by car & train; sleeping & eating well on a budget; hurdling the language barrier; making friends with -- & learning from -- the locals; & outsmarting stress, illness, thieves, & tourist traps.