{"id":533,"date":"2022-04-13T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=533"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:13:26","slug":"books-rick-steves-europe-through-the-back-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/04\/13\/books-rick-steves-europe-through-the-back-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just bought the Kindle version of Rick Steves&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LXKpfC\">Europe Through the Back Door<\/a> book last week and am reading it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Wow<\/em><\/strong>. Tons and tons and tons of useful suggestions, tips, recommendations. This book is strongly recommended by me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find myself in sync with his values, style and approach to travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am learning so much going through this book &#8211; and feeling much more comfortable about planning my own, first trip to Europe perhaps late this year. My first trip, due to schedule issues, is likely to be a solo trip, which adds to my anxiety. But his tips are helping me to have confidence in my planning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I finish reading this book, I think I&#8217;ll buy two more of his travel books as part of my planning &#8211; my goal is to make decisions and reservations by sometime in June. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>The link above to the book is an affiliate promotional link.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought the Kindle version of Rick Steves&#8217; Europe Through the Back Door book last week and am reading it now. Wow. Tons and tons and tons of useful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}