This is it. The big one. Descendent of Arthur Frommer's groundbreaking 1957 Europe on $5 A Day, the original budget travel bible that proved to an entire post–World War II generation that anyone could afford a trip to Europe.

For this 2004/05 edition, I wrote the planning and introductory chapters as well as the sections on Rome, Venice, and Florence. I also wrote the Switzerland bits (a chapter on Bern and the Alps of the Berner Oberland), but someone else updated that information this time around.

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