Germany offers an enormous range of travel experiences, from magnificent cities and medieval towns to glorious mountains, riveting history and art, architecture, music and food. This updated guide takes advantage of the fact that most of the attractions can be easily enjoyed on a daytrip basis, avoiding the need for frequent hotel changes. Daytrips Germany focuses on four areas of maximum interest - the Rhineland, the North, the East and Bavaria - each with a designated daytrip base.

The author begins his daytripping guide from Bavaria in the south, with featured trips to Munich-Nymphenburg, Lake Starnberg, Oberammergau and Linderhof, Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber and Bayreuth. A tour of central Germany begins in the Rhineland, with tours of Frankfurt, Cologne, Rhine Cruise, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden and Worms, among others. A tour of the north includes eight stops including Hamburg, while a tour of Berlin and the East features daytrips to Sans Souci and the Royal Palaces, Potsdam, Wittenberg, the City Center and even a tour of offbeat Berlin. Includes 68 maps, menu translator and a driver's glossary.

Earl Steinbicker is editor-in-chief of the Daytrips travel series, which he continues to expand and revise. The author of ten guides, he currently resides in the Philadelphia suburbs.