You’ll Feel Rome’s Lively Pulse in Its Fun Monti Neighborhood
1:00 01/01/1970
The fun and lively new hot spot in Rome is the Monti neighborhood. I just spent a couple of nights there exploring and enjoying restaurants — all in the name of guidebook research. If you don’t...
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Roman Discoveries
1:00 01/01/1970
Crowds are a huge, huge thing at many major sights, including here at Rome’s Vatican Museums. Emerging economies in large parts of our world are creating big middle-class populations with enough...
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Rick Steves Audio Europe: An Ancient Seduction in Athens
1:00 01/01/1970
Warning: This video includes ancient nudity and general horniness! Along with updating my guidebooks when I travel, I enjoy giving my audio tours a “road test”. My audio tour co-author Gene...
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Athens — Great Food, Big Economic Questions, and Hair on Fire
1:00 01/01/1970
Every year it seems I go to places partly because naive and gullible Americans, whose worldview is fed by a diet of hysterical commercial TV news, are avoiding those places for supposed safety...
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Dining Discovery in Athens Dishes Up a Positive Vibe
1:00 01/01/1970
Stepping out of my hotel during my first hour in Athens, I stumbled onto a great restaurant. This video clip illustrates perfectly how Athens is regaining some positive energy. Here’s my guidebook...
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Athens Yesterday and Today
1:00 01/01/1970
It’s great traveling in Greece during the shoulder season — the days are lovely and warm (not hot) and the crowds are few. I’m here in historic, bustling Athens, home of the world’s top...
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Monemvasia’s Cliff-Top View Would Make Even Butterflies Nervous
1:00 01/01/1970
Monemvasia is a Gibraltar-sized rock on the Peloponnesian coast of Greece. It’s connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway, has a town at its base, and the scant remains of a town and mighty...
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Floating Through the Pyrgos Dirou Caves Is a Trip for the Senses
1:00 01/01/1970
One of my fondest memories of traveling in Greece as a student back in the 1970s was gliding by boat through the Pyrgos Dirou Caves. Now, a generation later, I’ve returned and the experience was...
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Good Guidebooks Provide Creative Solutions: Shared Minibus Tours of the Amalfi Coast
1:00 01/01/1970
We recently had our annual meeting with our publisher, Avalon Travel, and enjoyed celebrating the fact that our guidebooks are the USA’s best-selling books in each category. We’re just a little...
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This Greek Welcome Really Packs a Punch
1:00 01/01/1970
When in Greece, hospitality comes with ouzo. And when in remote corners and hardscrabble villages (like here on the Mani Peninsula), where historically hospitality is a matter of life and death, the...
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