A Meditation on Walls and Bridges for the New Year
1:58 01/01/2017
So, it’s time to step into the new year. It’s a time when many of us look inward to calibrate or recalibrate our lives and loves in hopes of becoming...
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48 Hours in Amsterdam: A Local’s Guide
9:32 30/12/2016
Last year I undertook my own Dutch grand tour, with Amsterdam as the final stop. Outside the central station its revival facade stood, imposingly, above...
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2016 year in review: Travel highlights and lessons
14:15 29/12/2016
Are you ready to leap out of 2016 and into 2017? Tired and frustrated with the year gone by, over its bad luck, or are you running with the good luck and...
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My Favorite Reads of 2016
13:19 29/12/2016
2016 was the year that my reading habits changed significantly. Casual reading no longer satisfies me. These days, a book either needs to feature...
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Merry Christmas and Happy Travels!
23:34 24/12/2016
Our friends at Avalon Travel (the folks who publish all our books) built this tree out of my guidebooks and I had to share it with each of you with a...
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A Rick Steves Book Report: Strangers in Their Own Land (Anger and Mourning on the American Right)
18:36 23/12/2016
This year, along with the standard “Merry Christmas” greetings I’m receiving from my European friends, I’m getting a lot of nervous questions...
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My Thoughts on Today’s Violence in Berlin
4:25 20/12/2016
After today’s horrifying events at a Berlin Christmas market, as we keep the victims and their families in our prayers, it’s natural for Americans to...
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Focus on the Foods of Tuscany
2:00 17/12/2016
Whatever your reasons for visiting Tuscany, eventually you will wind up at table. For many, the foods of Tuscany are enough to make the trip: a...
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Discovering Parma and the Italian Food Valley: Heaven for Gourmets
17:55 13/12/2016
I can easily imagine the pride and joy felt by the inhabitants when in December 2015 the Unesco named Parma Creative City of Gastronomy. Most people know...
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We Did It! $500,000 To Fight Hunger
23:47 09/12/2016
We did it! We reached our goal of $500,000 to fight hunger. Congratulations and thanks! Our goal was for 2,500 of our travelers to donate $100 each to...
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