THE SAGA OF A 1970's VENTURE IN TRAVEL GUIDES...How It Happened, Why It Failed, And How It Eventually Led To Better Things — And Why It Could Work Today.
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PART I: My 1975 plan for an offbeat travel program on cable TV goes nowhere, but leads to something entirely different.
PART II: So the TV thing didn't work. Instead, the concept of Great Trips/Europe rose from its ashes, and made good use of the little adventures I had in England that summer of '75.
PART III: Great Trips/Europe gets off the ground. How I did it all by myself.
PART IV: Selling Great Trips/Europe. How advertising and free publicity brought in orders, but failed to produce a profit.
PART V: It's Off to Portugal and Spain for a Last Fling With Great Trips/Europe.
Great Trips #5, A One-Day Rent-A-Bike Trip from Amsterdam In 1975.
Great Trips #158: Innsbruck Mountain Walk. An easy hike in the Austrian Alps, taken in 1979 but still valid.
Great Trips #24: Gaudi's Barcelona. A One-Day Walk Exploring The Work Of A Great Architect.
Great Trips #48: Beethoven's Vienna. A 1970's assignment for Opera News leads me to develop a trip visiting the composer's old haunts.
Great Trips #160, Odense, Denmark. This daytrip from Copenhagen takes you to the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, a restored 19th-century farm village, and much mire.
Great Trips #1, Stoke Bruerne, England. A towpath walk along England's Grand Union Canal to a picturesque old village.
Great Trips #154, Helsingør, Denmark & Helsingborg, Sweden. An encounter with the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Great Trips #25, A Mountain Walk Near Vaduz, Liechtenstein. This easy daytrip takes you from Zürich in Switzerland to the capital of a tiny nation for an adventurous hike in the woods.
Great Trips #13, Cuenca, Spain. A one-day adventure from Madrid taking you to a medieval, vertical town in a fantastic setting.
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