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Guidebook of the European Union Choose a group or two to three people, four at the most.Premise: You have just finished an upper level college Geography class. Your teacher assigned a major project as part of the course that needs to be complete before the Fall semester. You have decided to plan and complete a trip to the European Union with friends from your class. You have agreed to produce a student guidebook to travel abroad in the European Union for one month (30 days) in the Summer. You will have a maximum of 10 travel days assuming an 8 hour travel day. In other words, you may not spend more than 80 hours traveling from country to country or from one city to another within a country. Do not count travel within a city. Student must visit at least six to eight countries in Europe ( 6 if there are two in your group, 8 if Three), representative of the countries in the European Union. You must visit at least one Eastern European country and either Italy or Greece or both. Countries not in the European Union will be excluded from their tour but you may pass through them. You may stay up to four days in each country so make sure you don’t waste too much time on travel to distant countries. (in other words, don’t travel from Portugal to Sweden on the same day). You may fly once while you are in the European Union – all other trips must be by train, bus or by ferry. You should say how you travelled to your destinations and all places you visit within cities and approximately how long it took. All of the information is available on the internet. Do not try to do too much in a single day – be realistic! You must set aside at least 11 hours a day to be in your hotel (sleeping, showering, washing cloths etc.) and at least three hours for eating. That means you have 10 hours each day to visit places and travel and 14 hours each day you must set aside to sleep and eat. You may count sleep on the train towards the 14 hours if you are travelling long distances. You may also ‘borrow” from the 14 hour set aside time if you want to visit a particular restaurant as part of your visit. For each country, the students must travel to the capital and at least one other city or town. You should choose a town or city that is representative of the culture of that country (most places are) or something that personally interests you. Perhaps there is some sort of a summer festival happening or it is a place rich in history? You decide where you want to go. You should choose at least two sites hopefully more, in each city to visit. You may want to travel to several towns. and provide a brief description (one sentence) of what cities or towns are known for in Europe or around the world.For each country, begin by giving a brief and basic description of the country. You should include information on the physical geography, cultures, population and economy. You may do this in paragraph for or bullet point form. Comment on what attracts people to visit the country and what draws citizens of the EU to want to live and work in that country (or leave that country). You may include any information you find interesting but remember, space is limited . Briefly describe what you will see or do at each place you decide to visit.Your guidebook should have 7 full pages including a title page or 14 half pages – 7 letter-sized pages folded in half. Each country will have at least one full page, in order of travel. It may be hand written or typed. Limit your information to the above. Do not include information about governments or political leaders or parties. Do not worry about fun facts.You may add whatever pictures, maps or illustrations you think will add to your guidebook. ................
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