Rick Steves' Pocket Amsterdam

by Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw

Overview

Rick Steves' Pocket guidebooks truly are a “tour guide in your pocket.” This colorful, compact 220-page book includes Rick's advice for prioritizing your time, whether you're spending one or seven days in a city. Everything a busy traveler needs is easy to access: a neighborhood overview, city walks and tours, sights, handy food and accommodations charts, an appendix packed with information on trip planning and practicalities, and a fold-out city map.

Rick Steves' Pocket Amsterdam includes the following walks and tours:

Amsterdam City Walk
Red Light District Walk
Jordaan Walk
Rijksmuseum Tour
Van Gogh Museum Tour
Anne Frank House Tour
Amstelkring Museum Tour
Amsterdam Museum Tour

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598803846
Publisher:	Avalon Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Rick Steves' Travel Guides Series
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rick Steves has spent 100 days every year since 1973 exploring Europe. Rick produces a public television series (Rick Steves' Europe), a public radio show (Travel with Rick Steves), and an app and podcast (Rick Steves Audio Europe); writes a bestselling series of guidebooks and a nationally syndicated newspaper column; organizes guided tours that take thousands of travelers to Europe annually; and offers an information-packed website (RickSteves.com). With the help of his hardworking staff of 80 at Europe Through the Back Door—in Edmonds, Washington, just north of Seattle—Rick's mission is to make European travel fun, affordable, and culturally broadening for Americans.

Gene Openshaw is a writer, composer, tour guide, and lecturer on art and history. Specializing in writing walking tours of Europe's cultural sights, Gene has coauthored 10 of Rick's books and contributes to Rick's public television series. As a composer, Gene has written a full-length opera (Matter), a violin sonata, and dozens of songs. He lives near Seattle with his daughter, and roots for the Mariners in good times and bad.