Revisiting One of the Greatest Cities on Earth
1:00 01/01/1970
Spending a few days in London updating my guidebook, it was fun to reconnect with one of the greatest cities on earth. The many massive new buildings seem to have been given permits on the condition...
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That’s One Big Pickle
1:00 01/01/1970
While updating my Rick Steves’ London guidebook this week, I was struck by the construction and the changing skyline. With my local guide, Gillian Chadwick, I marveled at the energy of new London,...
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England’s Red Phone Booths Find New Callings
1:00 01/01/1970
Britain’s iconic red phone booths are still standing, but they are becoming less common. Locals, who have a nostalgic attraction to them, are finding other creative ways to keep them in use....
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Grand Tour of My London Hotel Room
1:00 01/01/1970
One of my favorite moments in my travels is that little eddy between modules of a trip. For me, each two-month trip has segments. Today, the film crew is flying home from Germany, and I’m settling...
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Rothenburg as a Stage Set
1:00 01/01/1970
We spent 12 days scrambling to film our Reformation special. And the last stop was the historic German town of Rothenburg. If the town’s good enough to use as a location for “Pinocchio,”...
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Inside Look at Amazing Crime Museum
1:00 01/01/1970
While filming in Rothenburg at the amazing Medieval Crime and Punishment Museum, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how great museums don’t just happen. (Tacky and commercial “torture museums”...
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Modern Germans Reenact Medieval Battles
1:00 01/01/1970
While filming our Protestant Reformation documentary in Germany, we decided to use Rothenburg’s 16th-century settings to do my “on cameras.” It was perfect: Its Medieval Crime and Punishment...
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Tartan Tat in Edinburgh and Falling into the Set of ‘Avatar’
1:00 01/01/1970
There’s lots of travel fun happening in our Travelers’ Café — a collection of favorite blogs for all my travel buddies. Cameron Hewitt is now in Scotland, as he realized when he stepped into...
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Reformation Shoot
1:00 01/01/1970
We’re in Germany filming a one-hour special about Martin Luther and the Reformation which will be released in a year for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Luther was the first...
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Documentary Style à la Ken Burns
1:00 01/01/1970
Ken Burns can enthrall me for hours on end with lavishly filmed, edited, and narrated history. It’s my hope that our hour-long special on Luther and the Reformation will be enthralling too. For me...
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