Torrential Afternoon Rains in Warsaw
1:00 01/01/1970
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve experienced one strong and recurring weather pattern in this summer’s travels: hot and humid mornings, then torrential downpours in the afternoons. In just one month, on...
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Malbork Castle, Stronghold of the Teutonic Knights
1:00 01/01/1970
One thing I love about European travel is discovering places I never knew existed and had never even considered visiting after a lifetime of exploring Europe. Malbork Castle in Pomerania (north of...
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Historic and Heroic Gdańsk, on the North Coast of Poland
1:00 01/01/1970
Gdańsk, a port city on the Baltic Coast of Poland, is truly amazing — and amazingly historic. As any resident of the city will proudly explain, Gdańsk was the home of Copernicus (who changed the...
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Frolicking in Gdańsk
1:00 01/01/1970
While working on the self-guided town walk of Gdańsk in our Rick Steves’ Eastern Europe guidebook, I came upon an historic mill (whose millstones rumbled 24/7 to produced 20 tons of flour a day...
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Scotland is Still Scotland and Remains a Big Part of What Makes Britain Great
1:00 01/01/1970
With yesterday’s vote, Scotland, while still emphatically Scotland, remains a big part of what makes Britain Great. While the Scottish (probably wisely) chose to stay with the UK, the spirit of...
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Solidarity – How Gdańsk Changed the World
1:00 01/01/1970
After a lifetime exploring Europe — four months a year since the 1970s — I love to go to new places and affirm my deep-seated belief that you can never exhaust Europe of what it has to offer...
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Guesting on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” Was Simply Too Much Fun
1:00 01/01/1970
Last week I enjoyed an amazing experience as a guest on National Public Radio’s popular quiz comedy show, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” Each week the show has a guest join the panelists for a...
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Holy Land: Eat, Pray, Film
1:00 01/01/1970
We’re ramping things up for our public television special, “Rick Steves’ Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today,” which is airing all over the country. I’ll be giving talks around my...
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It Takes a Village to Make a Guidebook
1:00 01/01/1970
Since 1980, we’ve been producing guidebooks. My first book was self-published. I gently drove the precious little bundle of 256 lovingly typed pages (with white-out fixes and ballpoint-pen drawn...
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Become a member of NORML and get a free DVD of “Evergreen”
1:00 01/01/1970
Many of you know that I am a board member of NORML and an advocate for marijuana policy reform. And if you’ve understood my position, you know that I’m not in this to be “pro pot.” I am...
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