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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

25 Ways to Rediscover Europe: GQ.com

Once upon a time, there was a magical land, far across the ocean, where Americans—especially young Americans—could go to get lost.

When you traveled to this place, you had to pack everything you might need—especially such niceties as antiperspirant. You would carry all your money in the form of things called traveler’s checks. Phoning home was expensive; mail would take weeks. Knowing how to read a map was essential to navigation.

This place was called Europe, and it wasn’t that long ago that to be there was to be dangerously, thrillingly abroad. At least it felt that way if you encountered the place the way so many Americans did: with a backpack on your back and a Eurail pass in your pocket. It’s hard to think of another bourgeois rite of passage more valuable and unimpeachable than the modern American student’s grand tour.

Since then, let’s face it, both you and Europe have changed. You got an ATM card; they switched to the euro. They got Wi-Fi; you figured out Skype. You got a cappuccino machine; they discovered Starbucks. Your relationship has become like an older married couple’s: safe, smooth, comfortable, but lacking the charge of your early fumbling, passionate encounters.

Until now. Because GQ wants you to know that those days are not over. By following our simple (and cheap) guidelines, the passion can be rekindled, the magical land reclaimed. And the best news of all? You don’t even have to carry a backpack.—BRETT MARTIN






25 Ways to Rediscover Europe Travel Features: GQ.com

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