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Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2007

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rick's friends from Spain, Hungary, Holland, Sicily, Scotland, and Australia explain how they observe the holidays including what happens on Saint Nicholas Day and Epiphany as part of their Christmas festivities. And we'll also get some advice for a family holiday trip to Paris. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	It's pretty hard not to notice that Christmas is coming.
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:07.0	While many Americans complain that Christmas is becoming just too commercial here in the United States,
0:12.0	some of our European friends are establishing no Santa zones.
0:16.0	And while many of us measure the season in shopping days,
0:19.0	Europeans tinsle the season with their own special holidays from St. Nicholas Day to epiphany.
0:25.0	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves we'll hear how the holidays are celebrated in Madrid and
0:30.3	Paris, Holland and Hungary, Scotland and Sicily, and even in warm and summery Australia.
0:37.0	However you say Merry Christmas...
0:39.0	From the cashfeit and a luck of New York.
0:42.0	Or Natal. Felith Navidad Cashfeit and a looker new year. One Natale.
0:43.0	Felith, Navidad,
0:45.0	Jeuya Noel.
0:46.0	What a best, big man, Faglaski.
0:48.0	Have a happy Christmas.
0:49.0	O'O-Koracoint.
0:50.0	Merry Christmas.
0:52.0	You'll like what you get in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly. We're having a Christmas
1:16.0	party international style today on Travel with Rick Steeves. I'm Rick's
1:20.3	Dives and I've invited some of my friends from Europe and beyond to join us and tell
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