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Don't just read guidebooks and travel books to help you find facts and recommended places to stay, dine, see. You can extend the excitement of your trip by reading history and literature of your destination. Even novels set in the locale can help you be there long before you leave for the airport. And if you are going to carry a novel to read on the plane, why not make it one in which the characters live in your destination? And when you return, what fun it is to read books set in the place you have experienced first hand. Can you picture in your mind the place where the action of the novel occurs? Did the author get it right? By reading, your European vacation doesn't have to be just the few weeks you were actually there.