To empower americans to have european trips that are fun affordable and culturally broadening.
Rick steves europe through the back door.
Steves also has a public radio travel show called travel with rick steves 2005 present and has authored numerous travel guides the first of which was the popular europe through the back door.
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Travel information for europe s best destinations across 25 countries.
Our essential handbook for how to plan and enjoy a trip to europe designed to be read before you go with in depth advice on planning packing saving money avoiding lines staying healthy leaping the language barrier finding a bathroom and lots more.
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In 2006 he became a syndicated newspaper columnist and in 2010 his company released a mobile phone application called rick steves audio europe.
This month we re featuring sicily.
Rick steves europe through the back door.
Rick produces a best selling guidebook series a public television series and a public radio show and organizes small group tours that take over 30 000 travelers to europe annually.
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The plastic half liter mineral water bottles sold throughout europe are reusable and work great.
In 2010 we marked the 30th anniversary of the first edition of rick s budget travel handbook europe through the back door compiled from his travel on a shoestring experiences in the late 1970s rick sweet talked his girlfriend into typing it on a rented ibm selectric and his college roommate into doing the illustrations with a ball point pen.
Rick steves european tours and vacations feature the best value and travel experience around.
A fundamental part of enjoying travel in europe is finding places that i call back doors when i first started traveling back doors to me were europe s undiscovered corners and untrampled towns that had for various reasons missed the modern parade like dingle on ireland s western edge or portugal s salema tucked away on the southern coast.
If you bring one from home make sure it s empty before you go through airport security fill it at a drinking fountain once you re through.
Rick s 48 itineraries include italy france turkey ireland britain spain and much more.