Independent Travellers Britain & Ireland 2005: The Budget Travel Guide

Review
"An essential companion for freewheelers."
--Sunday Times


Book Description
Independent Travellers Britain and Ireland is an original and practical guide to traveling around the British Isles on a budget. Revised annually, it contains suggested routes to travel, cities and areas to visit, and offers budget options for accommodations, transportation, eating out, and sightseeing. The guide comes with its own tailored free mini weblinks CD.


From the Back Cover
Independent Travellers guides offer "everything you need, nothing you don't". Updated annually, these unique route-based guides cut through the mountains of surplus information available to travelers and present only the most relevant, useful and interesting facts, tips and advice.
Inside you will find: journey plans with route maps, distances and travel timings; features the big cities, picturesque villages and more remote rural areas; practical information on traveling by train, coach, bus and car; budget guides to where to stay, where to eat and what to see and do; details of rail, coach and bus passes; color photographs, city and town plans, route and area maps.
Every book comes with its own free weblinks CD. Pick and click your way to the best flight deals and the latest on travel passes, check out today's exchange rates, choose your accommodation before you go and get an inside view of what you'll find when you get there.





About the Author
This guide was compiled by a team of experienced travel writers: Eric and Ruth Bailey, Katy Carter, Alison Farthing, Kerry Fisher, Rebecca Ford, Sarah Hay, Nerys Lloyd-Pierce, Tim Locke, and Joani Walsh.


Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"The Cotswolds epitomise the rural English landscape--a picturesque patchwork of farmland divided by dry stone walls and woodland; a mixture of rolling hills and deep wooded valleys. Dotted with villages and market towns built from honey-coloured Cotswold stone, it's a fertile area for tea-shops, country pubs and rose-covered cottages."



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Independent Travellers Britain and Ireland is a route-based budget travel guide that selects the best public transportation routes to follow, cities to visit, and unspoilt scenery to explore-- from London's cosmopolitan heart and the gentle scenery of the Lake District to the rugged Scottish Highlands and islands and hauntingly beautiful west coast of Ireland. Drawing on the Thomas Cook European Timetable for public transportation information, it describes popular routes with practical travel timings, and suggests detours and alternative destinations. The free mini weblinks CD accompanying the guide is a practical and fun-to-use resource, giving access to a wide range of the best Web sites.


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