(This is a series written by resident free-lance writer Emily R. Carter. She offers advice for the backpacking tourist as well as other independent travelers seeking cheap travel tips for visiting Europe.)

Part I: Introduction to the Series

Part II: Budget Airlines, Cheap Airfares: Off the Beaten Flight Path

Part III: Trains, Buses, and Autobahns: Ride the Rails, Let the Bus Driver Do the Work, or Rent a Car?

- All columns may be reprinted with permission from Emily R. Carter at Cat's Cradle Used, Rare and Out of Print Books - where travel is a passion, and used and vintage travel books abound.

About the author: This is the third in a series by Emily R. Carter, a 2003 graduate of Furman University with a degree in art emphasizing art history. She is a freelance writer who has traveled extensively in Europe both during and after her college years. She lives in High Point, North Carolina. Contact her if you are interested in her freelance writing services. Her travel writing is copyrighted, but may be distributed in print or on the Internet as long as the author's byline, copyright and permission statements are included exactly as they appear in her columns. She would appreciate knowing if you reproduce her work electronically or in print.

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