So you wanna enjoy the beauty of europe!

European Travel is the most popular travel destination of all the continents - With each country's diverse history, archeology, culture and languages make it very appealing and rewarding to visit - and visit more than once - many times

Planning your Europe trip

Here are some words of advice that will help you planning your trip to Europe:
• Determine where you will be flying into and out of. Check into open jaw tickets, which allows you to fly into one place and out of another. This is a major time saver. If you are under 26, ask your travel agent if there are any youth passes available. Phone around to all the travel agents in the phone book and compare prices
• Write down (on a piece of paper or your worksheet) any events or places where you must be on a certain date - for example, staying with friends 14-16, Munich or festival in Paris, 18th. These should be things that you will need to work around and that aren't flexible
• Make 2 lists (or use your worksheet) - the countries that are "musts" and the countries you want to see if you have time. Be picky about the musts, you shouldn't have too many on that side of your list. Leave room under each country so you can write down cities
• Go through each country and write down cities you are interested in seeing... Do some research on the web, consult the Message Boards and really find what interests you
• Take your list and draw up a rough route so that you are traveling in a circle if you are flying out of the same place or in a straight line if you have an open jaw ticket. The goal is to avoid backtracking
• If you are using the train, visit Rail Europe and click on "Fares and Schedules". This will allow you to put in two destinations and see how long it will take. Write down the travel time between them

General tips when visiting Europe

• Never sit down in a cafe in Italy or France-the minute you sit, the price doubles. Drink your coffee at the bar!
• Buy a good pack. Don't cheap out - you will pay in many, many other ways
• Carry Kleenexs on you at all times, bathrooms while you are sight seeing rarely have toilet paper
• Pack a light pillow case-you never know how clean the ones on the bed are
• If you ask for the student rate, half the time they won't ask for ID. The other half of the time, you left it back at the hostel
• Prague is heaven on earth for the budget traveler
• Zip lock baggies come in very handy