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hey!
i will be traveling europe from iceland to greece (mostly western, with a few eastern european countries as well). i am looking to be a budget traveler (hostels and cheap eats) and want to spend my time not just in the main european cities. i want to see art, cultural sites, meet local people, maybe hit up a club or two here and there.

what do you think is the best travel book to bring with me?

lonely planet europe on a shoe string

Do you really need a guidebook?

Just wear the mask that your boyfriend-president is wearing and you'll scare everyone into doing your bidding.

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Just wear the mask that your boyfriend-president is wearing and you'll scare everyone into doing your bidding.
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My boyfriend president????? I hate Dubya if that's what yr talking abt...?!?!?

i also really liked lonely planet europe on a shoestrig. its a bit bulky, but after i had left a place, i would just rip out the section and leave it... but the end of the trip the book was quite light!

I'm making my own guide book using my Lonely Planet and a few that I got from the library.

I photocopied all the inportant information and the discriptions of places I want to visit. Those photocopies I glued into a spiral notebook.

I also wrote down stuff that I found on the net of places to visit, things to do and important information.

Yeah I have been thinking about how bulky it is. I went out to my parents' house today with a Let's Go guidebook from my library and another book and some clothes and my bag was heavy...maybe I'll rip out the pages from the start.

I wish (do they?) they had electronic guide books...I'd def bring my PDA.

I've managed to get ahold of both LP's Europe on a Shoestring and Let's Go Western Europe 2005, and I'm trying to decide between them right now. I'm leaning toward the let's go book because its more up to date than the LP book which was published 2003 i believe, unless ther's a newer book out.

also, and this probably sounds stupid, but Shoestring is a pain in the ass to read. Not that it's poor writing, but that it's so thick that if you crack the spine of the book, it automatically goes to that exact spot EVERY time you open it. I made the mistake of opening it up too wide in the Ireland section, and now every time I go to read it, it goes back to that same page. and I don't even know if i'm going to go to ireland.

Jester, I think there's going to be a new Lonely Planet Europe on a Shoestring issued this month. Yeah it is mad thick, which makes me not want to get it.

I brought the LP EonaS guide, and I liked it, despite its bulk. I didn't tear out any pages because when I got back and started making my scrapbook, I was able to look up the names of places I had forgotten.

I also liked LP's Europe on a Shoestring guide. It helped out quite a bit. In the cities, you can go to the tourist office and get more info/maps/etc, then ditch the info as you go.