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Starving Student European History and Culture Travel Summer Project

Due Date September 9, 2014

Directions Using the Rick Steves summer reading book, plan a trip through Europe in which you see the sights you most want to see and stay within your assigned budget. Your project needs to include for each day of your trip:

• Planned expenses (see below)

• Sites you’ll visit (or things you’ll do)

• Travel itinerary with departure and arrival times where possible

In addition you need to provide a map of your travel plan, with your travel route highlighted.

Credit Your group will receive credit as follows

( Quality Of Daily Plan (40 points). Daily synopsis of what you hope to do. Include the major events, locations, or experiences your trip includes. Indicate what you will do each day of your trip. Include a few sentences or phrases for each day, such as “Morning: visit the Louvre. Afternoon: Watch Tour de France final stage. Evening: walk along Seine hand-in-hand with Sorbonne student”

( Quality of Daily Budget (40 points) Complete the weekly chart to show the following items:

➢ Breakfast

➢ Lunch

➢ Dinner

➢ Lodging

➢ Activity

➢ Transportation (remember to include subway/bus/taxi, including to/from the airports)

( Quality of your explanation (40 points) of the sights you have seen. Your paper (2-3 pages) must explain what you saw, why it was significant, and where it fits in European history. At least half of your citations (MLA format) will be from Rick Steve’s Europe 101.

Rules Yes, we have to have some rules. You must follow these rules:

• Your trip must last at least 10 days, including the days of your flights to/from Boston.

• You have $2,500 to spend, and must decide how many days you can afford to stay in Europe, at your rate of spending. (You may not call your parents begging for more money. If you overspend, you will never return home, you will be expelled from college, and you will be forced to take a job as a day-laborer on a Balkan farm where you will milk goats and wish you were a better financial planner for the rest of your life.)

• Your arrival and departure flights to/from Europe must be sometime between June 8 and September 1, 2015.

• Our official exchange rate is $1.41 = €1.00 and $1.62 = ₤1.00. (The starving students scream “Ouch!”)

• Assume that you are traveling with a friend, so you can split some costs. (E.g., you can share a double hotel room; for your budget, only count half the cost of the double room.)

• You can opt to buy a Eurail pass, but you must include this in your budget.

• You can travel in any manner within Europe, except hitch-hiking, motorcycling, and rental car. You can buy tickets for flights, trains, buses and ferries. You can hike or ride a bike.

• You must visit at least three countries.

• You must visit at least three museums.

• You must attend at least one sporting event. (Hint for starving students: all road cycling events are free to attend)

• You must do at least one activity in nature. This can include hiking, bicycling, visiting a natural park, walking on a seashore, rock climbing, etc. (Hint for starving students: hiking is free!)

• You must attend at least one musical event. This can be of any type of music: rock, jazz, classical, folk, opera, etc. (Hint for starving students: a lot of cities have summertime free music programs, often in churches! A lot of pubs have local folk music for the cost of a drink.)

• You must visit at least three places of historical significance. This could include palaces, castles, battlefields, neighborhoods. (Hit for starving students: walking around neighborhoods and battlefields is free!)

• You can use any printed or web-advertised prices, so long as the travel book/source is from 2010 or more recent.

Suggestions You can save money by

• Staying at youth hostels, instead of hotel rooms.

• Avoiding the “20 countries in 20 days” syndrome. Trains and buses are expensive.

• Camping (legally or illegally) if you bring a tent and sleeping bag. You can bring a plastic tube tent that folds up to the size of a softball in your pack. Europe has thousands of cheap, publicly available campsites, often even inside big cities. (I’ve “camped” in Paris for several nights.)

• Spending less time in the huge cities. Yes, Paris and London are wonderful cities, but they’re more expensive than Manhattan. There’s a lot of Europe to be seen in the smaller towns.

• Making your own meals rather than eating in restaurants. Hostels usually provide breakfast. Eating in restaurants gets really tiresome after a week. Supermarket prices are the same as in Boulder, only the prices are in euros, so they are about 28% higher. You can buy a loaf of hearty French bread and a lump of cheese for about €3.00. If you carry a backpacking stove (which you can buy easily in Europe), you can cook your own hot meals on hotel balconies etc. You can make your own tea for next to nothing, instead of paying €3.00 for an espresso.

• Traveling on a train by night, so you don’t have to pay for a hostel bed.

• Washing your clothes in your hostel sink.

• Get an official international student ID card before you leave the U.S.

• Get an official Youth Hostel card before you the leave the U.S.

• Use an ATM or Visa card, rather than travelers’ checks (which incur commissions when cashed).

• Traveling more in Southern Europe than in Northern Europe. Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Greece are much cheaper than Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, and France.

• Taking buses instead of trains and planes.

• Bicycle touring

• Buying evening beverages at stores rather than at pubs or clubs.

• Avoiding clubs in the evenings: instead, go for a free walk along the Seine.

• Going to museums on Sundays or national holidays, when they are often free.

If you have questions. . . email me-mmatthewsqhs@!

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Week’s Total Cost in € or ₤: _______

Week’s Total Cost in $: _______

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AP European History

Starving Student Travel Plan Checklist

□ Total cost under $2,500 for one traveler.

Total Cost: ________________________

□ No hitch-hiking, motorcycles or rental cars.

□ Visit at least three countries. (List all you visit)

Country 1: ________________________

Country 2: ________________________

Country 3: ________________________

Country 4: ________________________

Country 5: ________________________

Country 6: ________________________

Country 7: ________________________

□ Visit at least three museums.

Museum 1: ________________________

Museum 2: ________________________

Museum 3: ________________________

□ Attend at least one sporting event.

Sporting Event: ________________________

□ Do at least one activity in nature.

Activity: ________________________

□ Attend at least one musical event.

Musical Event: ________________________

□ Visit at least three places of historical significance which we studied in class.

Historical Place and Significance: ________________________

Historical Place and Significance: ________________________

Historical Place and Significance: ________________________

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