Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide (15th edition) - Softcover

Nicky Gardner; Susanne Kries

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9783945225011: Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide (15th edition)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3945225019 ISBN 13: 9783945225011

Publisher: hidden europe publications, 2017

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Whether you are making a long grand tour or just planning a couple of weekend breaks, Europe by Rail is the perfect guide. The book is shaped around 50 key routes which span mainland Europe. Each route can be followed in its entirety or used as a building block in a longer itinerary. Beyond the main routes, there are pointers to branch lines and less frequented railways. Written by two highly experienced travellers, the book contains useful tips about how to plan your journey, what tickets to buy and where to stop off along the way. There are special sections for holders of rail passes, including Interrail and Eurail, as well as information on night and cruise trains. The country guide summarizes key information about travelling by train through each of the 48 countries listed. Apart from being full of good advice and up-to-date information, the book is also a good read. With its nicely opinionated style and lots of cameo accounts of travel history, there's plenty here for armchair travellers too.

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Review:

The book is an alluring combination of evocative writing ( Speed soaks up detail as poppies in the fields of Flanders become a red haze ) and practical advice. Subtitled The Definitive Guide for Independent Travellers, it is also a history of Europe in 50 train routes. --Simon Calder, The Independent (June 2016)

Europe By Rail could have been a dry, practical guide and still been an invaluable book, but where the writers really score is in evoking such a strong sense of place. Each route is carefully described with tightly-written guides to and descriptions of the destinations involved that make the fifty route chapters eminently readable as pieces of travel writing in themselves. --Charlie Connelly, (July 2016)

The real strength and heart of the book are the 50 suggested rail journeys, beautifully written, that give you a real flavour of the possibilities out there for crisscrossing Europe and what you might discover along the way. --Paul Scraton, Elsewhere: A Journal of Place (July 2016)

About the Author:

"Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries are Berlin-based writers with a strong interest in rail travel. The two women together edit hidden europe, a print magazine which showcases thoughtful travel writing. Words and images by Susanne and Nicky have appeared in specialist media across Europe. Successive editions of their Europe by Rail book have received consistently good reviews, and the two writers have often been compared to Bradshaw and Baedeker. Nicky and Susanne enjoy nothing more than a civilised and relaxed dinner in a restaurant car on a train rattling slowly through Bohemia."

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