EUROPE BY TRAIN: Interview with Katie Wood, author of Europe by Train, the original backpacker guidebook.

In this Travel Podcast from Backpacker Magazine (Ireland/UK) and www.backpacker.ie Michael Collins interviews Katie Wood.

Katie is the author of EUROPE BY TRAIN, the original Backpacker guide book, which first published in 1983 and is still available today.   

Katie's book preceeds anything from the more commonly known guidebooks of today such as Lonely Planet or Rough Guides. 

Back in the early 1980s the only guidebook available for students and Backpackers was the Lets Go series.

During the 1980s and early 1990s EUROPE BY TRAIN was a bible for Backpackers and Inter-railers in Europe.   

In met Katie in Germany the day before this interview took place, not knowing she was the author of EUROPE BY TRAIN. 

This impromtu interview was appropriately conducted on the last night-train to Bonn after a long days sightseeing and tasting of good German beers in Cologne back in 2004. 

I hope you enjoy this interview with the original goddess and legend of backpacker travel writing, Katie Wood.

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