Traveler's Guide to European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent (Traveler's Guide series) [Paperback]

Mike Church (Author), Terri Church (Author)

Book Description

Series: Traveler's Guide series | Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Travellers on a budget who want to camp around Europe will find everything they need to plan their trip in this guide. Written by experienced European campers, each itinerary provides detailed descriptions on where to go, how to get there, and what to take. Helpful advice is given on bringing or renting a vehicle, preparing for customs, and learning European road rules. In addition to destinations throughout Central and Western Europe, this expanded edition includes campgrounds in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Complete maps and directions accompany each site and campground.

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About the Author

Mike Church and Terri Church are the authors of the Traveler's Guide series and "RV Adventures in the Pacific Northwest". They spend most of the year travelling in their RV or car camping in Canada, Europe, Mexico, and the United States. They live in Kirkland, Washington.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Rolling Homes Press; 3rd edition (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965296881
• ISBN-13: 978-0965296885
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For the last 18 years Terri and I have traveled the western U.S., Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Most of this travel has been in an RV, a form of travel we love. It's affordable and comfortable, the perfect way to see interesting places.

Over the years we discovered that few guidebooks were available with the essential day-to-day information that camping travelers need when traveling in unfamiliar surroundings. Our guidebooks are designed to provide that information in a handy and easy-to-use format.

We live full time in an RV and spend almost 100% of our time traveling in the areas covered in our guidebooks while we update the books and maintain an informaton-filled website: www.rollinghomes.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars European Camping Made Easy, June 22, 2000

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This review is from: European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent (Traveler's Guides to European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent) (Paperback)

My husband and I have used this book on numerous camping excursions while living in Europe this past year. The guide is well written, with good descriptions and useful information. Camp-sights are easy to find with clear directions. Prices and ammenities are listed, using easy-to-read symbols. A brief section also outlines nearby sights and recreation, as well as access to public transportation into cities. European camping is a wonderful way to explore the continent on a budget and the campgrounds are unlike anything in the States. This book is an essential tool for camping in Europe!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, great book for Europe camping, November 29, 2003

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"bigwhitewhale" (Livingston, TX, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent (Traveler's Guides to European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent) (Paperback)

Traveler's Guide to European Camping is an excellent resource for RV travel and camping in Europe. The writers of this book have done a lot of work researching campgrounds, which made planning for my European vacation so much easier. The authors are the experts on European camping; the introductory chapters explain the options available for camping in Europe including possible ways to obtain an RV, describe what to expect in European campgrounds, and provide details on related topics such as money, electrical appliances, laundry and fuel. They also provide an excellent website, www.rollinghomes.com, which has links to many other sites concerning European travel.

The remaining chapters provide informative introductions for each country or region and detailed information on at least one campground for each major city. The authors have selected the best campgrounds for tourists and have described the facilities and amenities, provided detailed directions for locating the campgrounds, and also have suggestions for sightseeing. I especially liked the information provided for using public transportation from the campgrounds, and the directions allowed me to easily locate the campgrounds even with inadequate signs.

I used this book to travel for four months while staying in campgrounds and will use it again to travel in Europe without the frustration of reading foreign-language campground lists, getting hopelessly lost trying to find campgrounds, and not knowing the approximate price and campground amenities before arrival.

Using campgrounds is a wonderful way to travel in Europe and this book, packed with information and travel tips, is indispensable.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Camping in the summer of 2003 with my wife and kids, September 3, 2003

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Robert Murphy (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent (Traveler's Guides to European Camping: Explore Europe with RV or Tent) (Paperback)

We decided to try and motorhome it Europe with two families this past summer. We rented our motorhome through DRM in Dusseldorf and got started on our European vacation with the help of the Church's book "European Camping". Our first stop was in Heidelburg and we camped at the site they recommended, camping Haide. Well this book turned out to be our "bible" as it had excellent and accurate descriptions of the campgrounds around Europe. They describe what could be found at the campgrounds and what there was to see at that location. The book always gave excellent directions on how to get to each campsite and the estimated cost of the campground. This is an excellent book and a fantastic way to see Europe. This is my third time to Europe and it was my most enjoyable trip, thanks in a large part to the help of this book. Our only problem on this trip was we left the book in the campground at Antibes, France. this was one of the nicest campgrounds we stayed at, the washrooms were very clean and the pool was great! We didn't discover the loss of the book until 5 hours outside of Antibes and we then decided to go on and try the local pamphlets and tourist info's to camp in the remaining week that we had left. What a mistake!!! It was then that we truly discovered how wonderful this book was and how difficult it was to find a "good" campsite using local information. We did remember the campsite that the Church's listed for camping while in Paris, at the park right inside Paris. It was a wonderful campsite but it was very difficult to find without the book in our possesion. Whoever finds our book at the Antibes campsite recommended by the Church's has truly found a "pot of gold", a book that is the can be considered a camping bible for European camping. Our family thanks the Church's for a great book and we recommend that you don;'t leave home for Europe without it!
Rob Murphy
PS If anyone finds this book I would love to have it back.