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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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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My 1973 “Europe Through the Gutter” Trip Frieze
1:00 01/01/1970
For several years, I’d pass the time on the flight home from my annual summer trip making a crude one-page frieze summarizing my trip. On my best trip ever (in 1973 with Gene Openshaw — who...
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6 reasons photography tourism is for you
1:00 01/01/1970
Throw away the guidebooks and bask in the beauty of the world, spend time understanding the locals and capture fleeting moments of sheer spontaneity with photography tourism. Artisans of their craft...
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Warning: Rick Steves Guidebooks Can Be Very Dangerous! (Please Help Me Be Funnier)
1:00 01/01/1970
  In an effort to add some whimsy to the stiff legalese on the copyright page of our guidebooks, for years I’ve inserted a little attempt at humor into the “we accept no responsibility for...
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Warning: This Video Contains Violence to Guidebooks
1:00 01/01/1970
Each year at this time, I perform a ritual sacrifice of guidebooks before heading off on a two-month research trip. If you don’t want to see a travel writer giddy with boxcutter joy as he slits the...
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Interview with Tim Bewer, Founder and Director of Isan Explorer
1:00 01/01/1970
Originally from Wisconsin in the USA, Tim has lived full-time in Khon Kaen, Thailand since 2007. After a short stint as a legislative assistant, he gave up the 9-5 to become a travel...
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“Guidebook selfies” on the road
1:00 01/01/1970
Everybody loves to snap “selfies” on the road these days. But what about your guidebook? At home, a man’s best friend might be his dog. But on the road, if your guidebook’s any good, it can...
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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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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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