Celebrating 2014 and Looking Ahead to 2015 at Our Tour Reunion
1:00 01/01/1970
The annual Rick Steves’ Tour Reunion has dominated our work for the last ten days. The event is a twofer: a huge party celebrating tour members who joined us in Europe last year, and a “guide...
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The Hamster Wheel States of America
1:00 01/01/1970
Thank you for the many thoughtful comments on my recent Seattle Times editorial (which you can read at the end of this post) about how media and corporations are working together to create “The...
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The Most Beautiful Travel Souvenir
1:00 01/01/1970
TripIt, a popular app designed to help you organize your travels, just did a quality job of producing a series of four-minute interviews with me about my travel philosophy. These “fireside chats”...
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How to Learn Irish Swear Words... and Other Tips on Going Local
1:00 01/01/1970
TripIt, a popular app designed to help you organize your travels, just did a quality job of producing a series of four-minute interviews with me about my travel philosophy. These “fireside chats”...
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Why I Love Travel: Wild
1:00 01/01/1970
For my holiday season gift to you, I’m sharing three exciting glimpses of why I love traveling in Europe — and beyond. Over the last two days, we’ve covered remote and sacred slices of Europe....
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Why I Love Europe: Sacred
1:00 01/01/1970
For my holiday season gift to you, I’m sharing three exciting glimpses of why I love Europe on three successive days. Yesterday was remote. Tomorrow is wild. And today, it’s sacred. In this clip,...
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Why I Love Europe: Remote
1:00 01/01/1970
For my holiday season gift to you, I’d like to share three exciting glimpses of why I love Europe. Over the next three days, we’ll travel to slices of Europe that are remote, sacred, and wild —...
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Merry Xmas
1:00 01/01/1970
We all treasure our Christmases at home. But I treasure my Christmases abroad, too. I’d love to hear your favorite memories about being in a country that celebrates Christmas with a different twist...
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The Real Meaning of Christmas
1:00 01/01/1970
Dear traveling friends, This mural reminds me how travel can help us be one with the world. It can help us to see truths we’d never appreciate if we stayed home. While, at first, these truths can...
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Coming Together in the Dead of Winter to Make Music
1:00 01/01/1970
As you watch this clip of choirs performing in Oslo and in Nürnberg, enjoy scenes of winter in Europe. While fields and squares are filled with color and vibrancy in the summer, the naked branches,...
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