The Rough Guide to Europe

by Rough Guides, Thomas Brown, Jonathan Bousfield

The Rough Guide to Europe 2006 edition is the indispensable budget guide to the continent. There is a 24-page full-colour section containing a selective and subjective taste of the continent''s highlights. The guide contains over 100 maps and a variety of itineraries to help you plan your trip. There are up-to-the minute accounts of all the main attractions, from London''s legendary club scene to the best beaches in Greece. It includes comprehensive lowdowns on Europe''s coolest festivals, finest museums and most exciting outdoor activities. There are also plenty of lively reviews of the best-value places to eat, drink and sleep. The practical focus is on budget travel, with everything students and backpackers need to know to get the most from a trip ? covering everything from InterRail passes and budget airlines to cycling and organised trips.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

1072 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Jake Stillwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read where I've been, skimmed much of the rest on June 6, 2021 for Rory.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Rough Guide To Europe 2006 is a great book to pick up if you're not the most adventurous but more-so the average traveller looking for a great time in some of the best known or little known towns and cities. The guide provides an easy to read and discover map legend that will help you decide what route to choose whether you're using car, train, or other means of transportation to get around. However, I do enjoy the highly detailed country maps of Fodor's Europe more for getting around country to country.

The introduction itself gives you a nice opening to Europe even if you've been there previously. This shows you top five categories about some of the best places to go, where to eat, what events to check out and a host of other features. After reading through the introduction you'll find the Europe Itineraries - this section will give you good ideas about where to go if you plan to travel from place to place in different regions. The writers even go as far as to write out a Grand Tour featuring the top 12 cities to visit in order to really take in Europe at it's finest spots. Although, this is only for those that can afford such a trip. Each town and city is covered very well, some more detailed than others of course.

[Phyllis]

2005

[Jmolentin]

Used a rough guide in 2002 and 2003 for our travels in europe