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From: minow@decvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Getting Around Overseas
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 18:01:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21 18:01:23 1983
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Deak-Perera (a money exchange company) has a give-away booklet for
travellers with a variety of helpful hints.

Readers of net.railroad might appreciate the following:

"One improvement Americans quickly note in Europe is the abundance
and quality of public transportation.  Bus and train service between
cities is frequent and relatively inexpensive.... One cautionary note:
Don't count on trains being late since maintaining schedules is a point
of pride for the operators."

When I was in Europe two years ago, I made one marathon trip from
Granada (Southern Spain) to Interlaken, Switzerland.  Several of
the connections had 3-4 minutes leeway (in the published time-table).

No trouble making them, either.

If you're going to railroad (Eurail or Interrail pass) in Europe,
you'd be well-advised to find a copy of the Thomas Cook Time-table.
It has pretty-much every railroad schedule in Europe.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow