"This Snapshot guide is excerpted from Rick Steves Central Europe. If you're focusing your trip on Kraókw, Warsaw & Gdaânsk, this slim guide has just the information you'll need. Rick gives you up-to-date advice on what's worth your time and money: the top sights, good-value accomodations, and affordable restaurants. You'll learn how to travel smartly and get around like a local as you explore Kraókw's bustling Main Market Square, Warsaw's historic Royal Way, and Gdaânsk's colorful main drag and Solidarity shipyard."--

Since 1973, Rick has spent about 100 days a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable, and culturally broadening. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series, a public television series, and a public radio show, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice, drug policy reform, and ending hunger. To recharge, Rick plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son Andy, daughter Jackie, and his new grandson...baby Atlas. Find out more about Rick at RickSteves.com and on Facebook. 

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Cameron Hewitt was born in Denver and grew up in central Ohio. Since moving to Seattle and joining Rick Steves' Europe (where he serves as content manager) in 2000, Cameron has traveled to more than 35 European countries, contributing to guidebooks, tours, radio and television shows, and other media. Cameron is married to his high school sweetheart (and favorite travel partner), Shawna, and enjoys taking photos, trying new restaurants, and planning his next trip.