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Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.5 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2009

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Some of Rick's European friends from Spain, Hungary, Holland, Sicily, Scotland, and Australia share how different cultures celebrate from Saint Nicholas Day to Epiphany and offer advice for a 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. Oh Natale.
0:43.0	Felith, Navidad, Joia Noel.
0:45.0	Joia Noel.
0:46.0	What a best, big man, Fagliski.
0:48.0	Have a happy Christmas.
0:49.0	O'O-Kor-Corachoy.
0:51.0	Merry Christmas.
0:52.0	You'll like what you get in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.0	We're having a Christmas party, international style today on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:05.0	I'm Rick Steeves and I've invited some of my friends from Europe and beyond to join us
1:09.0	and tell us how they celebrate their Christmas holidays.
1:12.0	We'll hear who brings the gifts and
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