You Can't Get There from Here: Exploring Europe with the Wiegers Family

What could be more fun than leisurely touring through Europe for four weeks, hunting for castles and retracing history? With two adults and three young children stuffed into an Opel station wagon. In 1961. In the rain. That's just what the Wiegers family did, and they lived to tell the tale in "You Can't Get There from Here."

This book tracks the adventures of Ruth, Bud, and their three children as they explored the history and sights of Europe from 1960 through 1963. "You Can't Get There from Here" recounts their travels through Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, and other countries. An additional chapter describes the four weeks that Ruth and her mother spent touring their ancestral homelands in Scandanavia and England.

Part travelogue, part memoir, and all fascinating, the daily journals of these family vacations and their accompanying photos make Europe come alive. Anyone who has traveled with small children can relate to these unsanitized, up close and personal accounts. This is not the Europe of the guidebooks; it's the real thing.

Join the Wiegers family as they bring a whole new interpretation to "sightseeing." Bon voyage!