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Rick Steves’ Europe: Bacharach: Legends and sagas on the Rhine

May 17, 2021 at 9:13 a.m.

Cruising down the romantic Rhine River, we dodge the treacherous reefs that spelled disaster for ancient sailors distracted by the fabled Lorelei siren. We dock at the half-timbered town of...

Rick Steves’ Europe: A conversation in Amsterdam, where a coffee shop is more than a coffee shop

April 15, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

Wandering around Amsterdam, every few blocks you pass a window full of plants displaying a red, yellow, and green Rastafarian flag — both indications that the coffee shop doesn't sell...

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Rick Steves’ Europe: Siena: Italy’s medieval soul

April 8, 2021 at 4:51 p.m.

Stretched across a Tuscan hill, Siena offers perhaps Italy's best medieval experience. Courtyards sport flower-decked wells, churches modestly share their art, and alleys dead-end into red-tiled rooftop panoramas. This is...

Rick Steves’ Europe: Laz-pitality in Northeastern Turkey

April 2, 2021 at 3:41 p.m.

I'm in northeastern Turkey, the world's top hazelnut-producing region and home of the Laz people. It's located along the Black Sea coast, where it rains 320 days a year. Yet...

Rick Steves’ Europe: Norway is the old country and a new outlook

March 30, 2021 at 3:06 p.m.

I'll never forget my first trip to Europe. I was a gangly 14--year--old, dragged to the old country by a conspiracy of grandparents and parents solely to visit strangers who...

Rick Steves’ Europe: Dangling from a Swiss cliff

March 19, 2021 at 9:22 p.m.

Dangling from a sheer cliff a thousand feet above the Lauterbrunnen Valley floor, I pause and look down at my boots, each numbly clinging to a rebar step — which,...

Appreciating Italy’s most underrated city, Milan

March 15, 2021 at 9:57 a.m.

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here's one of my favorite European memories...

Rick Steves: The back road to Mostar: Off the beaten path in Bosnia-Herzegovina

February 26, 2021 at 9:42 a.m.

Looking for a change of pace from Croatia's touristic Dalmatian Coast, I'm driving east from Dubrovnik to the city of Mostar, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Almost everyone making this trip takes the...

Rick Steves’ Europe: After hours at a German Stammtisch

February 12, 2021 at 1:15 p.m.

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here's one of my favorite European memories...

Rick Steves Europe: Westminster Abbey: The soul of England

February 2, 2021 at 10:51 a.m.

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here's one of my favorite European memories...

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