New Europe is a great company that hosts FREE walking tours in major European cities. This gives you a lay of the land and helps you plan what you want to do. The tour guides will offer tips and tricks about the best ways to avoid lines at popular sites or good restaurants you might want to check out.

At the end of the tours the guides, who are often other long-term travellers, will ask for donations. Guides pay the New Europe company $2.50 for every guest they take so if they are bad tour guides they actually lose money and don’t stay around for too long, so you are very likely to get a great tour guide.

Most cities tours run at 11am & 1pm

The best cities: Berlin & Munich