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BIKES

  • Best European Bicycle Maps - list of maps for bicycle touring in 24 European countries
  • Bicycle Maintenance Guide - includes a packing list designed for cyclists, airline and train tips, and also comments on good and bad airlines for taking your bike
  • Bicycle Tour Checklist - a minimal packing list for cyclists
  • GORP Cycling - strategies for packing for bike tours, including what to pack, how to pack and where to put it all. An essential resource if you plan to travel by bike!
  • Travel-by-Cycle - useful site specializing in traveling by bicycle
  • Travel With Bicycles - information on getting your bike there and taking it on trains
  • Trento - a collection of pieces of information about bicycle touring and off-road (mountain) biking in Europe and the Mediterranean
  • Warm Showers List - list of internet cyclists who offer hospitality to touring cyclists. Submit your name into the data-base too.
  • Yahoo! - Yahoo's offering of bike-travel sites

Tour Companies

BUS

  • Baz Bus - hop-on, hop-off bus service in South Africa
  • Busabout Europe - 'the flexible coach network designed for independent travelers looking for an economical, safe and reliable way to see Europe'
  • Busweb - list of European coach companies
  • Eurolines - Europe's express coach service
  • Fez Travel Turkey - a great little bus company that offers an efficient way to travel around in Turkey. Site includes routes, prices and photographs from past trips.
  • GreenTortoise - tour the wonders of North and Central America aboard one of their legendary sleeper coaches
  • Moose Run - for backpackers and adventure travelers moving about in Canada
  • Radical Travel Network - the Blarney Bus, Haggis and Border Raiders bus network

CARS

Rental Companies

HITCH-HIKING

  • Eurolift - find passengers and drivers to share rides in Europe
  • Hitch-hiking hearsay - a CDTG article that may help you gain some insight into the ups and downs of hitching
  • Suite 101 - an intelligent collection of hitch-hiking stories, experiences and links to other hitching sites
  • Hitch-hiker's Accommodation Database - a place to post and find places to stay while hitch-hiking
  • Hitch-hikers - new message board to help match up hitch-hikers and empty car seats in Europe
  • Move to Everywhere - a beginner's guide to hitching

SUBWAYS

  • MetroPlanet - exceptionally detailed and complete guides to metro systems on each continent
  • The Subway Page - links to what must be every site and subway map on the internet

TRAINS

  • BritRail - Eurail doesn't run in Britain, but BritRail does
  • Deutsche Rail - official web page for the German rail system. Also has information for other European countries.
  • Eurail - the famous inter-Europe train service. Find information and train-travel tips and book tickets online.
  • European Rail Information - extensive list of rail services all over Europe
  • Europe on Rail - sales of Britrail, Eurorail and Eurostar tickets and reservations
  • Europrail International - North American source for European Railpasses, complete with fares, rail maps and schedules
  • Eurostar - the lightning-fast route from London to Paris or Brussels through the Chunnel. Includes current prices as well. The site loads slow, but it has all the info. you'll need.
  • New Zealand Train Travel - New Zealand's railway system
  • Rail Europe - "Your one-stop source for European Travel"
  • RailPage - Australia's railway system
  • Railpass - the famous inter-Europe train service. Find information and train-travel tips and book tickets online.
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