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Hi dear traveller! From now on InterRail will help you to keep your greatest memories alive! Whether you’re a new traveller or a experienced one, we’ve noticed how important it is to have the total experience of your journey at all times. So, sit back and relax because from now one you will have the ability not only to keep your memories in this little book but we’ve also received some important information for you and about your journey. The best thing of all is, that it is customized by your travelling wishes! From now on, you won’t have to plan your journey 3 months before the actual date of travelling or worry about a sleeping place. We’ve already sort it out for you! This will give you the ultimate travel-ing freedom and your memories can be shared at all times, during the journey or afterwords it. So grab your “InterRail scrapbooking“ kit and keep your personal scrapbook up to date by starting

immediately! In the back of this little book you can write down your daily activities and experiences. You can also post your funniest, greatest or even stupidest pictures in this book and with the added scrap book kit it’s a piece of cake to turn this book in your own personal diary! Leave all of your ex-pensive high tech stuff back home and take a cheap analoge camera with you. We don’t want you to lose all of your expensive stuff, do we!? Besides, at some important train stations like; Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden and Austria, are little photo booths located where you can get free prints of your collected analoge photo’s so you can put them in your scrap book, anytime and anywhere. So take this little book anywhere with you and have a great journey!

Rough AmsterdamHistory. The earliest recorded use of the name “Amsterdam” is from a certificate dated 27 October 1275, when the inhabitants, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel, were exempted from paying a bridge toll by Count Floris V. The certificate describes the inhabitants as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme (people living near Amestelledamme). By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam Amster-dam’s founding is relatively recent compared with much older Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century. This does not necessarily mean that there was already a settlement then. The reclamation of land may not have been for farming—it may have been for peat, used as fuel.

A painting (1544) depicting Amsterdam in 1538. The famous Grachtengordel had not been built yet.Amsterdam was grant-ed city rights in either 1300 or 1306. From the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely because of trade with the Han-seatic League. In 1345, an alleged Eucharistic miracle in the Kal-verstraat rendered the city an important place of pilgrimage

until the adoption of the Protestant faith. Amsterdam has a rich architectural history. The oldest building in Amsterdam is the Oude Kerk (Old Church), at the heart of the Wallen, consecrated in 1306.[48] The oldest wooden building is het Houten Huys[49] at the Begijnhof. It was constructed around 1425 and is one of only two existing wooden buildings. It is also one of the few examples of Gothic architecture in Am-sterdam.

Architecture. In the 16th century, wooden buildings were razed and replaced with brick ones. During this period, many buildings were con-structed in the architectural style of the Renaissance. Build-ings of this period are very recognizable, since they have a fa-çade which ends at the top in the shape of a stairway. This is, however, the common Dutch Renaissance style. Amsterdam quickly developed its own Renaissance architecture. These buildings were built according to the principles of the archi-tect Hendrick de Keyser.[50] One of the most striking build-ings designed by Hendrick de Keyer is the Westerkerk. In the 17th century baroque architecture became very popular, as it was elsewhere in Europe. This roughly coincided with Am-sterdam’s Golden Age.

Traveltime

Amsterdam - Brux-elles est. 2h50

Amsterdam - France est. 2h30 Amsterdam - Ger-

many est. 6h10 Amsterdam - Swe-

den est. 5h15

Amsterdam’s must sees

Rembrand van Gogh museum 10 am - 6 PM / entrance € 12,50

Rijksmuseum 9 am - 6 pm entrance €11.00 City museum of art 8

am- 7 pm entrance € 8.50 Rembrand van Gogh museum

10 am - 6 PM / entrance € 12,50 Rijksmuseum 9 am - 6 pm entrance €11.00

City museum of art 8 am- 7 pm entrance € 8.50 Rem-

brand van Gogh museum 10 am - 6 PM / entrance € 12,50

Rijksmuseum 9 am - 6 pm entrance €11.00

City museum of art 8 am- 7 pm entrance € 8.50

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History. The English word “Germany” derives from the Latin word Germania. The name “Germania” came into use after Ju-lius Caesar adopted it from a Gallic term for the peoples east of the Rhine that probably meant “neighbour”. The ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes is assumed to have occurred during the Nordic Bronze Age, or at the latest, dur-ing the Pre-Roman Iron Age. From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe. Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds.

Under Augustus, the Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus began to invade Germania (a term used by the Romans to define a territory running roughly from the Rhine to the Ural Mountains), and it was in this period that the Germanic tribes became familiar with Roman tactics of warfare while maintain-ing their tribal identity. In AD 9, three Roman legions led by Varus were defeated by the Cheruscan leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Modern Germany, as far as the Rhine and the Danube, thus remained outside the Roman Em-

pire. By AD 100, the time of Tacitus’ Germania, Germanic tribes settled along the Rhine and the Danube (the Limes Germani-cus) , occupying most of the area of modern Germany. The 3rd century saw the emergence of a number of large West Ger-manic tribes: Alamanni, Franks, Chatti, Saxons, Frisians, Sicam-bri, and Thuringii. Around 260, the Germanic peoples broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier into Roman-con-trolled lands. Ger-many is historically called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the land of poets and thinkers). German culture began long before the rise of Germany as a nation-state and spanned the entire German-speaking world. From its roots, culture in Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. As a result, it is difficult to identify a specific German tradition separated from the larger framework of European high culture.[114] Another consequence of these circumstances is the fact that some his-torical figures, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka and Paul Celan, though not citizens of Germany in the mod-ern sense, must be considered in the context of the German cultural sphere in order to understand their historical situation, work and social relations.

Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Traveltime

Germany- Brux-elles est. 4h30

Germany - France est. 8h40

Germany - Am-sterdam est. 6h10

Germany - Sweden est. 3 hours

Germany’s must sees

1. Berlin

2. Munich3. Hamburg4. Cologne5. Frankfurt

6. Duesseldorf7. Dresden

8. Bonn9. Nuremberg10. Heidelberg

Wifi Spots!

- Ludwig-Thoma-Str. 16, Ober-

haching, 82041, Germany - Friedrich Ebert Anlage 35,

Heidelberg, 69117, Germany - Auguste Hauschner Strabe 4,

Berlin, 10785, Germany

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République FrançaiseThe borders of modern France are approximately the same as those of ancient Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic Gauls. Gaul was conquered for Rome by Julius Caesar in the 1st cen-tury BC,[17] and the Gauls eventually adopted Roman speech (Latin, from which the French language evolved) and Roman culture. Christianity first appeared in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, and became so firmly established by the fourth and fifth centuries that St. Jerome wrote that Gaul was the only region “free from heresy”. France after the Hundred Years War. Red line: Boundary of the Kingdom of France; Light blue: the directly held royal domain-In the 4th century AD, Gaul’s eastern frontier along the Rhine was overrun by Germanic tribes, principally the Franks, from whom the ancient name of “Francie” was derived. The modern name “France” derives from the name of the feudal domain of the Capetian Kings of France around Paris. The Franks were the first tribe among the Germanic conquerors of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire to convert to Catholic Christian-ity rather than Arianism (their King Clovis did so in 498); thus France obtained the title “Eldest daughter of the Church” (La fille ainée de l’Église), and the French would adopt this as jus-tification for calling themselves “the Most Christian Kingdom of France”.

Existence as a separate entity began with the Treaty of Verdun (8, with the division of Charlemagne's Carolin-gian Empire into East Francia, Middle Francia and West-ern Francia. Western Francia approximated the area occupied by modern France and was the precursor to mod-ern.

Traveltime

France- Brux-elles est. 4h30

France - Ger-many est. 8h40 France - Amster-dam est. 6h10

France - Sweden est. 3 hours

France’s must sees

1. Paris2. Lyon

3. Marseille4. Nice

5. Toulouse6. Montpellier

7. Cannes8. Saulx-les-Chartreux

9. Bordeaux10. Strasbourg

Wifi Spots!

- Charles De Gaulle Airport,

Roissy-en-france, 95700, France - 10 Rue Cassette,

Paris, 75006, France -1 Rue De La Mare Neuve, Evry,

91021, France

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History. Ancient Rome was at first a small agricultural community founded circa the 8th century BC that grew over the course of the centuries into a colossal empire encompassing the whole Mediterranean Sea, in which Ancient Greek and Roman cultures merged into one civilization. This civilization was so influential that parts of it survive in modern law, administration, philoso-phy and arts, forming the ground that Western civilization is based upon.

In its twelve-century existence, it transformed itself from monar-chy to republic and finally to autocracy. In steady decline since the 2nd century AD, the empire finally broke into two parts in 285 AD: the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire in the East. The western part under the pressure of Goths finally dis-solved, leaving the Italian peninsula divided into small indepen-dent kingdoms and feuding city states for the next 14 centuries, and leaving the eastern part sole heir to the Roman legacy. Climate. The climate in Italy is highly diverse and can be far from the ste-reotypical Mediterranean climate depending on the location. Most of the inland northern areas of Italy, for example Turin, Milan and Bologna, have a continental climate often classified

Ancient Italyas humid subtropical (Köppen climate classification Cfa). The coastal areas of Liguria and most of the peninsula south of Florence generally fit the Mediterranean stereotype (Köppen climate classification Csa). The coastal areas of the peninsula can be very different from the interior higher altitudes and valleys, particularly during the winter months when the higher altitudes tend to be cold, wet, and often snowy. The coastal re-gions have mild winters and warm and generally dry summers, although lowland valleys can be quite hot in summer.

Traveltime

Italy - Brux-elles est. 4h30 Italy - Germany

est. 8h40 Italy- Amster-

dam est. 6h10 Italy - Sweden est.

3 hours

Italy’s must sees

1. Rome2. Milan3. Venice

4. Florence5. Naples

6. Bologna7. Turin

8. Genoa9. Rimini

10. Pescara

Wifi Spots!

- Corso Buenos Ai-res, Milan, 20124, Italy

- Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci, Rome, 00050, Italy

-Via Del Mare 93, Milan, 20142, Italy

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High AustriaHistory. Settled in ancient times, the Central European land that is now Austria was occupied in pre-Roman times by various Celtic tribes. The Celtic kingdom of Noricum was later claimed by the Roman Empire and made a province. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the area was invaded by Bavarians, Slavs and Avars.The Slavic tribe of the Carantanians migrated into the Alps, and established the realm of Carantania, which covered much of eastern and central Austrian territory. Char-lemagne conquered the area in 788 AD, encouraged colonisa-tion, and introduced Christianity.[As part of Eastern Francia, the core areas that now encompass Austria were bequeathed to the house of Babenberg. The area was known as the marchia Orientalis and was given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976.

The first record showing the name Austria is from 996 where it is written as Ostarrîchi, referring to the territory of the Baben-berg March. In 1156 the Privilegium Minus elevated Austria to the status of a duchy. In 1192, the Babenbergs also acquired the Duchy of Styria. With the death of Frederick II in 1246, the line of the Babenbergs went extinct.As a result, Otakar II of Bo-hemia effectively assumed control of the duchies of Austria,

Styria and Carinthia.[19] His reign came to an end with his de-feat at Dürnkrut at the hands of Rudolf I of Germany in 1278. Thereafter, until World War I, Austria’s history was largely that of its ruling dynasty, the Habsburgs.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Habsburgs be-gan to accumulate other provinces in the vicinity of the Duchy of Austria. In 1438, Duke Albert V of Austria was chosen as the successor to his father-in-law, Em-peror Sigismund. Although Albert himself only reigned for a year, from then on, every emperor of the Holy Ro-man Empire was a Habsburg, with only one exception. Climate. The greater part of Austria lies in the cool/temperate climate zone in which humid westerly winds predominate. With over half of the country dominated by the Alps, the alpine climate is the predominant one. In the east—in the Pannonian Plain and along the Danube valley—the climate shows continental features with less rain than the alpine areas. Although Austria is cold in the winter, summer temperatures can be relatively warm—reaching temperatures of around 20 – 40 °C.

Traveltime

Austria - Brux-elles est. 4h30 Austria - Ger-

many est. 8h40 Austria- Amster-dam est. 6h10

Austria - Sweden est. 3 hours

Austria must sees

1. Vienna

2. Hirschegg3. Salzburg

4. Innsbruck5. Graz

6. Velden7. Klagenfurt

8. Linz9. Kirchberg in Tirol

10. Kitzbuhel

Wifi Spots!

- Stock-im-Eisen-Platz 2, Vienna, A-1010, Austria

- Flughafenstrasse 1, Ho-ersching, A-4063, Austria

- Herrenstrasse 28, Perg, 4320, Austria

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Historical Sweden

History Sweden’s prehistory begins in the Allerød warm period c. 12,000 BC with Late Palaeolithic reindeer-hunting camps of the Bromme culture at the edge of the ice in what is now the country’s southernmost province. This period was char-acterized by small bands of hunter-gatherer-fishers using flint technology. Farming and animal husbandry, along with monumental burial, polished flint axes and decorated pottery, arrived from the Continent with the Funnel-beaker Culture in c. 4,000 BC. Sweden’s southern third was part of the stock-keeping and agricultural Nordic Bronze Age Culture’s area, most of it being peripheral to the culture’s Danish centre. The period began in c. 1,700 BC with the start of bronze imports from Europe. Copper mining was never tried locally during this period, and Scandinavia has no tin deposits, so all metal had to be imported. It was largely cast into local designs on arrival.

The Nordic Bronze Age was entirely pre-urban, with people living in hamlets and on farmsteads with single-story wooden long-houses.

In the absence of any Roman occupation, Sweden’s Iron Age

is reckoned up to the introduction of stone architecture and monastic orders about 1100. Much of the period is proto-his-torical, that is, there are written sources but most are of low credibility. The scraps of written matter are either much later than the period in question, written in distant areas, or, while local and coeval,extremely brief.

The climate took a turn for the worse, forcing farmers to keep cattle indoors over the winters, leading to an annual build-up of manure that could now for the first time be used systemati-cally for soil improvement.

A Roman attempt to move the Imperial border forward from the Rhine to the Elbe was aborted in AD 9 when Germans un-der Roman-trained leadership defeated the legions of Varus by ambush in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. About this time, there was a major shift in the material culture of Scandinavia, reflecting increased contact with the Romans.

Traveltime

Sweden - Brux-elles est. 4h30 Sweden - Ger-

many est. 8h40 Sweden- Amster-

dam est. 6h10 Sweden - Austria

est. 3 hours

Sweden’s must sees

1.Stockholm

2. Gothenburg3. Gamla Uppsala

4. Vindeln5. Solna6. Sunne7. Malmo

8. Sundsvall9. Are

10. Malung

Wifi Spots!

- Helle, Helle, 452 80, Sweden - Svinesund, Svinesund, 452 80,

Sweden

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History. King Christian IV attacked Sweden in the 1611–13 Kalmar War, but failed to accomplish his main objective of forcing Sweden to return to the union with Denmark. The war led to no territorial changes, but Sweden was forced to pay a war indemnity of 1 million silver riksdaler to Denmark, an amount known as the Älvsborg ransom. King Christian used this money to found several towns and fortresses, most notably Glückstadt (founded as a rival to Hamburg), Chris-tiania (following a fire destroying the original city of Oslo), Christianshavn, Christianstad, and Christiansand. Christian also constructed a number of buildings, most notably Børsen, Rundetårn, Nyboder, Rosenborg, a silver mine and a copper mill. Inspired by the Dutch East India Company, he founded a similar Danish company and planned to claim Sri Lanka as a colony but the company only managed to acquire Tranquebar on India’s Coromandel Coast. In the Thirty Year’s War, Christian tried to become the leader of the Lutheran states in Germany, but suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Lutter resulting in a catholic army under Albrecht von Wallenstein occupying and pillaging Jutland.

Some of the earliest descriptions of the origin of the word ‘Denmark’, describing a territory, are found in the Chronicon Lethrense (12th century), Svend Aagesen (late 12th century), Saxo Grammaticus (early 13th century), and the Ballad of Eric (mid 15th century). There are, however, many more Danish annals and yearbooks containing various other details, simi-lar tales in other variations, other names or spelling varia-tions, etc.

Myths The Chronicon Lethrense explains that when the Roman Emperor Augustus went against Denmark in the time of David,Denmark consisted of seven territories Jutland, Fu-nen, Zealand, Møn, Falster, Lolland and Skåne which were governed by King Ypper of Uppsala. He had three sons, Nori, Østen, and Dan. Dan was sent to govern Zealand, Møn, Falster, and Lolland, which became known jointly as Videslev. When the Jutes were fighting Emperor Augustus they called upon Dan to help them. Upon victory, they made him king of Jutland, Funen, Videslev, and Skåne. A council decided to call this new united land Danmark (Dania) (English: Den-mark) after their new king, Dan. state that he is also the origin of the word “Denmark”.

Mythlogical Denmark

Traveltime

Denmark - Brux-elles est. 4h30 Denmark - Ger-many est. 8h40 Denmark- Am-

sterdam est. 6h10 Denmark - Austria

est. 3 hours

Denmark’s must sees

1. Copenhagen

2. Grønninghoved Strand3. Gentofte4. Aarhus

5. Akirkeby6. Blommenslyst

7. Odense8. Ribe

9. Aalborg10. Helsingor

Wifi Spots!

- Oslo Plads 5, K?benhavn

/, 2100, Denmark - Ostre Stationsvej 24,

Odense, 5000, Denmark - Skt. Annae Plads 18-20, Copen-

hagen, 1250, Denmark

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