Amy Eckert - Frommers Europe by Rail: Frommers Complete Guides Series, Book 862

Frommers Europe by Rail, 4th Edition

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Cartographer: Liz Puhl

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List of Maps

Itinerary 1: Europes Best Castles & Palaces

Itinerary 2: Small Cities of the Benelux

Itinerary 3: Riding the Scenic Route

Itinerary 4: Eastern Europe

Itinerary 5: Exploring the Scandinavian Triangle

Itinerary 6: Europe for History & Culture Buffs

Itinerary 7: Europes Best Art & Architecture

Itinerary 8: Europe for Food Lovers

Itinerary 9: Great Cities of Europe

Itinerary 10: The Grand Tour

Austria

Vienna

Vienna Public Transport

Salzburg

Innsbruck

Belgium

Brussels

Bruges

Lige

Luxembourg City

The Czech Republic

Prague

Scandinavia

Copenhagen

Finland

Helsinki

France

Paris

The Loire Valley

Orlans

Tours

Avignon

Aix-en-Provence

Cannes

Nice

Monaco

Germany

Western Berlin

Berlin Mitte

Berlin U-Bahn & S-Bahn

Munich

Munich U-Bahn & S-Bahn

Dresden

Great Britain & Ireland

London

Edinburgh

Ireland

Dublin

Hungary

Budapest

Italy

Rome

Florence

Venice

Milan

The Netherlands

Amsterdam

The Hague & Scheveningen

Oslo

Bergen

Portugal

Lisbon

The Algarve

Spain

Madrid

Madrid Metro

Seville

Granada & the Alhambra

Barcelona

Barcelona Metro

Stockholm

Gothenburg

Switzerland

Zurich

Bern

Geneva

Eastern European Rail Routes

Note About Maps

This guide contains dozens of maps of varying sizes and complexity. If you find it hard to read a map on your device, use the zoom function to enlarge. You can also download and/or printout PDFs of all of the maps in this guide. Go to www.frommers.com/go/ebookmaps and click on the title of your guide.

About the Authors

Amy Eckert s love affair with travel began on a train in Europe and hasnt stopped yet. As a college student, Amy lived and worked in Southern Germany; as a travel writer, she has returned many times since, traveling by train through a dozen countries, including Germany, France, the Benelux nations, Italy, and Scandinavia.

Dardis McNamee is editor-in-chief of the Vienna Review and an assistant professor of Media Communications at Webster University Vienna. In her long career in journalism, she has been a correspondent for the New York Times, Cond Nast Traveler, Wall Street Journal Europe, and Die Zeit, as well as a speech writer to two U.S. ambassadors to Austria. She has lived in Vienna for 15 years.

After graduating with a degree in French, Christopher Anderson left North Carolina, traveled across Siberia, and taught English in France and Austria. In addition to travels in over 40 countries (and counting), he has worked as managing editor of the Vienna Review and as a reporter at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He unpacks his bags in Vienna, Austria.

George McDonald has lived and worked in both Amsterdam and Brussels as deputy editor of the KLM in-flight magazine and as editor-in-chief of the Sabena in-flight magazine. Now a freelance journalist and travel writer based in Germany, he is the author of Frommers Amsterdam and Frommers Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg.

Mark Baker is a long-time American expat who lives in Prague. Hes one of the original editors of The Prague Post and was for years a foreign correspondent and editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, based in Prague. He is now a freelance writer and reporter. He is the author of Frommers Prague and Prague Day by Day and coauthor of Frommers Eastern Europe and Frommers Poland.

Ryan James earned a doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. He has been living in Budapest, Hungary, since 2001, and has been a full-time instructor in the American Studies Department at Etvs Lornd University since 2002. He has traveled to 45 countries so far.

Darwin Porter, a native of North Carolina, was assigned to write the very first edition of a Frommers guide devoted solely to one European country. Since then, he has written many bestselling Frommers guides to all the major European destinations. In 1982, he was joined in his research efforts by Danforth Prince, formerly of the Paris bureau of the New York Times, who has traveled and written extensively about Europe.

Native New Yorker Naomi Kraus is a senior editor at Frommers, a former travel agent, and a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She has logged lots of miles on European trains over the years and rides the rails whenever she can.

Acknowledgments

Many people worked behind the scenes and lent us a helping hand to keep this book on track. Id like to give special thanks to Beth Demarte, Samina Sabir, Meredith Marks, and Paul Kaufmann for their invaluable assistance. You cant ask for a better cartographer than Liz Puhl, the woman behind all the maps in this book. Major kudos to Andrea Kahn at Frommers for her enthusiastic assistance with both maps and text, to Cate Latting for her help on the maps, and to Susan Barnes and Davis Macmillan for pitching in where needed. And thanks to my family for making sure I stayed sane while juggling rail maps, timetables, and train itineraries for 6 months.