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Rothenberg is notorious for his unconventional style. As a freshman, he got into serious trouble for moving a piano in the Union for a performance. And last summer, while working for Let's Go in Scandinavia, he was arrested in Denmark for tampering with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
...last remaining travel bargains is a book: Eurail Guide (How to Travel Europe and All the World by Train). The 1980 edition ($9.95) describes worthwhile trips in 115 countries and details more than 50 cut-rate fares. Examples: the 1,500-mile trip from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso for $9.50, the 2,780-mile jog from Montreal to Vancouver for $35. Great stuff for train buffs, the book gives departure and arrival times for more than 9,000 rail trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well...
...buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken dollars by taking leisurely barge trips through the English countryside or hopscotching across the Continent on a $200 Eurail pass good for 30 days in 13 Western European countries...
Above all, Let's Go's thoroughness is what makes it superior to its competitors. It lists more hotels and restaurants in more cities on both sides of the Iron Curtain, places Frommer or your Eurail Pass could never take you. The researchers are students, and, like Frommer, they make their share of mistakes. But they try harder to orient the American in a strange city, to give him alternatives to the tourist traps, to offer a guidebook that won't be dead weight in Europe...