"An inspiration and a springboard"

Rick Steves

• Real Stories from Young Travelers

  If you've ever wanted to backpack in Europe...

  If you want to relive your adventures...

  If you love good travel writing...

  Better than guidebooks, these first-person accounts paint vivid pictures of a traveler’s experience in Europe. Like familiar music and favorite scents, they’ll awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those who have. Romance, surprise, discovery and wisdom all bubble through these authors’ inviting pieces.

• Italy From a Backpack

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  • Sneak past Vatican guards to see Michaelangelo’s Pietà.
  • Break out of a locked hostel to catch the morning train to Rome.
  • Find a surprise romance in the fresh sea air of Cinque Terre.
  • Meet your cheek-pinching, food-loving Sicilian relatives in the old country.

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• Spain From a Backpack

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  • Run with the bulls in Pamplona, or stumble across romance there instead.
  • Trek 600 miles on the Camino de Santiago and discover your inner strength.
  • Throw your share of 90,000 pounds of tomatoes in Europe’s biggest food fight at Buñol.
  • Lose your wallet, your passport, your entire pack—or maybe just your old ways of thinking.

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• Europe From a Backpack

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  At last, a collection of first-person eye-witness adventures that will keep you laughing, wondering, and walking with the well-traveled story tellers who take you inside Europe's must-see places.

  • Billy Anderson stares down death at the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
  • Lisa Cordeiro takes a "will work for food" approach to travel as a waitress at a Paris restaurant.
  • And Mike Riley's desperate search for underwear in a Portuguese market... well, that's another story.

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Reviews

"An inspiration and a springboard."

Rick Steves

“What you learn is that travel puts you in situations you could never imagine and that young travelers on limited funds can land in some incredible circumstances.”

The Los Angeles Times

“[the stories are] riveting because they are real, and they date from that heavenly time of life where freedom is a given and anything is possible.”

The Seattle Times

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