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Of course, travel in Europe is not always about the dazzling sights and world-famous museums. Perhaps the single biggest pleasure of travelling this incredible continent is the range of people from all nationalities you’ll meet along the way – whether fellow travellers or locals. However cosmopolitan your background may be, there’s nothing quite like strolling the streets of Venice with a Venetian, taking a banya (steam bath) and being beaten with birch twigs by a Russian, or just kicking back, watching live music and drinking Guinness in a pub with a Dubliner.

Hassles? There’ll be a few, inevitably. While Europe has to be one of the easiest and safest places on earth to travel, you’ll find your money won’t always go very far (especially in London, Paris and much of Switzerland – ouch!) and that in the summer months hostels can be booked up weeks ahead, making creative bed finding and flexibility key. A sense of humour is needed for many places. Whether it’s another strike by French railway workers when you really need to get somewhere, or the greediness of petty bureaucrats on the make in Belarus or Moldova, just remember that it can be these challenges and dramas that end up making the best stories of the trip.

Few places pack the punch of Europe – a historical, cultural and geographical heavyweight that squares up confidently to any other continent on earth. From its Northern Lights to its Southern shores, this drama queen keeps on thrilling, surprising and confusing with her extraordinary wealth of sights, sounds, peoples and parties. Whatever your connection to Europe – whether descendent of one or more of its peoples, a current inhabitant or future visitor – be prepared for sensory overload as your eyes, ears and tastebuds take the trip of a lifetime through a part of planet earth that never fails to dazzle.While Europe revels and takes pride in its extraordinary heritage, it is certainly not one to be limited by it. Indeed, the continent leads the world in fashion, art, music, architecture and design; just see the street styles and music scenes of London and Berlin, the ground-breaking design in Antwerp, Copenhagen and Stockholm or the amazing displays of contemporary art, well, just about everywhere, to confirm that.