Europe
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Popular Countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
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Overview
Europe has one of the richest traditions and histories in the world, and makes for great travel opportunities. Travelling within the European Union's 25 countries is now much easier due to common borders, and in most cases a common currency (the Euro). Whether you're a backpacker or a luxury traveller, there is incredible diversity of things to do and a great deal of historical sites to visit.
A great deal of Europe can be seen by train, although the rise of European discount airlines has made event remote places like Estonia easily reachable now.
Geographically, Europe is the western portion of the larger landmass known as Eurasia. The continent begins at the Ural Mountains in Russia, which define Europe's eastern boundary with Asia. The southeast boundary with Asia is not universally defined. Most commonly the Ural or, alternatively, the Emba River serve as possible boundaries. The boundary continues to the Caspian Sea, the crest of the Caucasus Mountains or, alternatively, the Kura River in the Caucasus, and on to the Black Sea; the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles conclude the Asian boundary. The Mediterranean Sea to the south separates Europe from Africa. The western boundary is the Atlantic Ocean, but Iceland, much farther away than the nearest points of Africa, is also often included in Europe. There is ongoing debate on where the geographical centre of Europe is.
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Tips for: backpackers • business travelers • luxury/exotic travel • hitchhikers • families • seniors • LBG travelers • pet owners |
Hotels and lodging
Vacapedia.com - Thousands of Holiday Homes in Europe
OctopusTravel.com - Hotel in Europe and all over the world
Nozio - Travel Guides and direct links to hotels official web sites [1]
Vacation & Travel Accommodation - Holidays & Breaks.com[2]
Very special are those traditional sailing vessels in Holland, sailing the IJsselmeer and Wadden Sea.
INFO-ROMA HOTEL - Hotels in Rome and direct links to hotels official web sites
Holiday Velvet - Vacation villas, hotels, B&B's an apartments around the world
Attractions
| Find out where to go in the maps section below. |
Discover what the European Union has to offer as local delicacies, food and traditions, specialties, festivals and culture.
Gastronomy and Traditions in Europe
Including Eurodisney
Shopping
Maps and transportation
Getting to Europe
car rental: book your car before you leave your home country on [3]. Europcar serves customers at 2852 locations in 170 countries, among which 639 airport locations for more conveniency: find the closest location to your travel destination on [4].
Exploring Europe
Explore Europe by train!
Europeans: http://www.interrailnet.com
Non-Europeans: http://www.eurail.com
Customize multi-city itineraries to Europe: EuropeanDestinations.com
Practical information and resources
If you would like to work while on vacation in Europe, there are some opportunities for non-Europeans in the form of student vacation work programs. Five countries have working holiday programs for Americans, but you need to go through an approved educational exchange operator. Other possibilities exist for Canadians, Australians and others. [5]
Restaurants
Text with links to user-reviews on other pages
Nightlife
Photo gallery
| Add a new photo to the Europe gallery. Vote on which images to feature in the featured images forum. |
Everything else
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External resources
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If you want to add personal links, please do that on your user page (you can also write your profile there). If you have a link with great content that travellers need, you can add it at Europe/Links |
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Europe. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Wikia Travel, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
