The Weekend City Break Playbook: Plan 48-Hour Escapes to the World's Best Cities on a Shoestring

John Peggy Leftridge is a budget travel writer and the creator of the 48-Hour Shelf, a publishing project devoted to short, affordable escapes. Over more than a decade of travel, John has visited more than sixty cities in thirty countries, nearly all of them on weekends snatched between workweeks, and has written about the practice of fast, frugal city travel for outlets including *The Sunday Traveler*, *Wander Economics*, and the *Weekend Atlas* newsletter, which reaches more than forty thousand readers. John is a firm believer in the power of the short trip—that a well-planned 48-hour break can restore, inspire, and teach as much as any two-week vacation—and has spent years refining the budget systems described in this book along the way. When not hunting for low fares or testing the breakfast banquets of European hostels, John can be found in a small apartment in Rotterdam, planning the next departure, and defending the position that the best travel decision is often simply deciding to go.