Hi, I'm Rick Steve's and welcome to the fifth anniversary of our little radio show about enjoying the big wide world.

To celebrate, today on Travel with Rick Steve's we've invited some European friends to join us for a pint.

We'll find out how beers brewed, enjoyed, and appreciated in different

European cultures, and we'll look at ways you can make beer appreciation another facet

of your overseas travels. Then we'll move from hops to hippies as travel writer

David Farley tells us about a rather eccentric medieval village near Rome. Some Italians

call it the home of the Freakionae, artists, New-aagers, and bohemians of a certain age.

But David lived in Calcata, Italy to investigate a mystery.

Seems the local church was home to a controversial relic that came up missing a few years ago.

Tradition says it was an actual part of the body of Jesus Christ.

Theologically, you could say the only piece of flesh he would have left on earth after he ascended into heaven.

Relics and Beer. Why not? It's Travel with Rick Steeves.

We're getting acquainted with a small Italian hill town with a surprising history today on Travel with Rick

Steve's. The village of Calcata is home to what some would call a rather irreverent religious

mystery, which just adds another flavor to the town's funky vibe.

But first, we've reserved a seat at the table for you to join us as some of my friends from Belgium,

England, Ireland, and Edmonds join us for a little appreciation of the beer cultures of Europe.

Last time I was in the Czech Republic, my friend told me that Czech workers didn't go west for job opportunities,

like everybody else when the Cold War was over, because they couldn't bear to leave their local beer.

In Belgium, the place is filled with beer pilgrim tourists.

They come there for the beloved monk-made beer.

Munich hosts one of the biggest parties anywhere in the world, each October fest, and it's

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