by Rick Steves and Gene Openshaw

Rick Steves is an American travel writer, television host, and guidebook author best known for making European travel accessible to a broad audience. Gene Openshaw is a travel writer and longtime collaborator with Rick Steves; the two have coauthored travel books and worked together on projects such as *Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces* and *On the Hippie Trail*.[1][3][10]