228 European Christmas Preparations, Part 2

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Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 19 December 2010

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Friends from Madrid, Rome, Lisbon, and London tell us about their cities' holiday traditions, and we'll check in on Bulgaria, Switzerland and Austria, plus a listener report about the big Christmas market in Nuremburg, Germany. Get to know such characters as Baba Noël, Grandfather Frost, the Cristkind, Saint Nicholas, Krampus, Sammi Claus and Schwartzley, and expand your holidays with us on the next Travel with Rick Steves. 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	All across Europe Christmas is a time for families and in Europe that means a special focus on the children.
0:07.0	Everything must be like magic. This is what is the remaining for the future generation.
0:13.4	Right now, as a mother, I'm doing setting that for my children.
0:17.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:18.8	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we're continuing a tour we started last week of the different kinds of Christmas traditions
0:24.7	that our friends celebrate all across Europe.
0:27.3	For instance, high in a snowy village in the Swiss Alps, St Nicholas comes and he's riding
0:32.2	a donkey. He's to he's riding a donkey.
0:33.0	He's toting treats and a little naughtier nice lecture for the children.
0:37.0	And down in Portugal and the small towns in the countryside,
0:40.0	families gather around Christmas Eve bonfires in the wee hours of the morning after midnight mass.
0:45.0	And children in Bulgaria are searching for the lucky coin that's hidden in a piece of freshly baked pita bread.
0:51.0	We're enjoying the Christmas season, European style, today on Travel
0:55.9	with Rick Steeves. Stay with us. Coming up today on Travel with Rick Stee's, we're spending Christmas in Europe.
1:05.0	It's a virtual Santa Free Zone and there's not a mall in sight.
1:08.0	Whether it's enjoying a meal of salted codfish and Lisbon,
1:12.0	celebrating midnight mass in a snow-blanketed church high in the South. salted
1:13.9	and Lisbon,
1:14.9	celebrating midnight mass in a snow-blanketed church high in the Swiss Alps,
1:15.8	or singing carols in London's Trafalgar Square,
1:18.5	Christmas traditions in Europe go very deep.
1:21.4	We'll spend the hour ahead exploring those traditions and we'll
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