Lonely Planet Mediterranean Europe on a Shoestring

by Steve Fallon, Tom Brosnahan, Lonely Planet

Covering Albania, Andorra, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and countries of former Yugoslavia, plus Tunisia and Morocco,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864426194
• ISBN13: 9780864426192
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 1048 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Pack Your Bags and Get Over There!

The Lonely Planet guides are excellent for any locale..but this edition (covering Italy, Spain, Greece, France, Portugal and even Morocco) is a must-read for the quintessential backpacker jumping on a plane for Europa. These guides excel at recommending lodging of many price ranges (from youth hostels to 5-star hotels) and meal choices of the same range (excellent recommendation for outdoor markets.."buy a loaf of bread, a block of cheese and a bottle of wine here"..which is a plus as many guides catering to this area focus on only older travels with large budgets..or persons seeking to spend only a dollar a day or some insanity..it's always good to have the most information possible..and it's included here. Entertainments ideas from free plaza and park visiting to museums, discotechqes, architecture, boat rides etc. etc. are included..good for young and old. It even lists culture-sensitve information such as appropriate dress for visiting churches and monasteries as well as travel-safe tips for women. Book your Eurorail pass and get going.

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AAAAAHHH! Make sure you buy separate maps for every city you are planning on going to unless you feel like walking around all day (and I do mean ALL DAY) trying to find some place they recommended. I didn't think the maps were so bad until I was actually there and could not find anything! Notice that nearly half of the streets are unlabeled. Otherwise it's pretty good I guess, and certainly had more of a cross section of the countries I was actually interested in visiting. Sometimes though I think they are trying to make people scared for some reason. Just for the record, I never saw anybody speeding by on motorcycles grabbing people's purses in Italy. And some places they act like are all great and really aren't much to look at (like, ahem, Naples).

Where do you want to go in Med Europe? Start here!

The book is excellent if you want to go to Med Europe but have trouble deciding exactly where, although you need to buy the specific book for a country if you intend to spend more than two weeks in that country. It helped narrow my choice for the countries I was considering . It's also extremely useful if you cannot afford to buy all the books for the countries you'll be visisting in Med Europe. The sections on Morocco and Tunisia are an added bonus! It's over a year old but the information is still up-do-date.I've already ordered the Eastern Europe edition for my next holiday!

Mediterranea Europe on a shoestring is quite fascinating!

Lonely Planet has great books and this one certainly was. It's very thorough and tells alot about things that interest travellers. They are up to date and tell you the pros and cons of the different countries. I liked it alot and I know that other people will too.