num_pages: 684
description: Rick Steves doesn't just list where to travel in Europe he leads travelers through the Back Door and reveals how to give every journey an extra more authentic dimension. He shows travelers how to delve into European culture make friends with the locals and experience each region's natural wonders -- economically and hassle free. Rick Steves' Amsterdam Bruges and Brussels 2003 is packed with opinionated advice on visiting top sights such as Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum Bruges' 14th-century belfry and La Grand Place in Brussels. This book provides a healthy dose of Back Door intimacy with visits to local markets community theaters and family-run chocolate shops. Also included is a broad array of dining and lodging options from cheery cafeterias and backpackers' dorms to trendy cafes and elegant inns; self-guided walking tours that mix the famous and not-so-famous; practicalities such as when to go planning your time estimated costs red tape and taxes and banking hours. This new edition has the most current information available in any European guidebook based on research conducted during the summer before publication. It's Rick Steves again that one-man Euro-dynamo. -- Chicago Tribune
language: English
title: Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels
publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing