Traveling the Eurail Express [Paperback]

Jay Brunhouse (Author)

Book Description

Series: Traveling the Eurail Express | Publication Date: April 30, 2004

Formerly titled Traveling Europe's Trains, this is a superb guidebook to getting around Europe and Britain from Manchester to Moscow by high-speed, and scenic train, ferry, and Europabus.

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"With descriptions of the sights along the way and helpful tips on locations and services, the book is the next best thing to an actual trip." --Booklist "I cannot imagine any serious European rail traveler being without this book." --Larry Townsend, Chicago Tribune "With this book and a Eurailpass in hand, Europe is your oyster. . . . Guides the traveler through the intricacies of European train travel as smoothly as the Spanish Talgo trains ride the tracks." --Travel Weekly This is the definitive European passenger-train travel guide. It has been comprehensively revised and updated to include the latest information on all types of trains, including the French TGVs, Eurostar, Pendolini, and other high-speed and tilting trains. The book also describes how to navigate the various train stations and obtain hotel accommodations. Author Jay Brunhouse tells travelers all they need to know about riding Western and Eastern European trains from Mayo to Moscow. Chapters offer valuable tips on how to save money with Eurailpasses, Eurail Selectpasses, and other economical tickets and how to make train traveling easy on the various national railroads. He highlights Europe's most spectacular train adventures and discusses traveling in Britain Ireland Spain Portugal Luxembourg France Finland Germany Switzerland Scandinavia Austria Hungary Italy Greece Poland Slovakia Slovenia Croatia Lithuania Bulgaria Latvia Estonia Macedonia Bosnia-Herzegovina Serbia and Montenegro Romania Czech Republic Albania Ukraine Belarus Russia Netherlands Belgium Precise timetables are provided, and two appendices list addresses of BritRail and Eurailpass issuers; national tourist offices, consulates, and embassies; and European Eurail Aid offices. Jay Brunhouse writes a monthly column on train travel for %iInternational Travel News%r and received the Lowell Thomas Award for the Best Land Travel Article in 1986. His travel features have appeared in %iNational Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, Travel Weekly,%r and %iNew Zealand Traveltrade.%r He is also the author of %b%iThe Maverick Guide to Berlin.%r

About the Author

Jay Brunhouse writes a monthly column for "International Travel News" on train travel and received the Lowell Thomas Award for the Best Land Travel Article in 1986. In addition, he is the author of "The Maverick Guide to Berlin". Brunhouse's various travel features have appeared in Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune as well as many others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing; 6 edition (April 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589801687
• ISBN-13: 978-1589801684
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,204,563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good - but changed mind, May 22, 2009

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This review is from: Traveling the Eurail Express (Paperback)

I just glanced at this book because we changed our minds and decided to rent a car instead. I gave the book to a co-worker who is planning to go to Germany in June 2009.