228a European Christmas Prep 2

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 18 December 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Rick is introduced to Santa's European relatives including Baba Noël, Grandfather Frost, Saint Nicholas, Krampus, and even Sammi Claus and Schwartzley. Also friends from Madrid, Rome, London and Lisbon discuss their cities' traditions for the Christmas season, and Rick learns how the holidays are celebrated in Bulgaria, the Swiss Alps, Austria and the Low Countries. 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 there's a special focus on children.
0:05.0	Navi-Dà-Dul-C-Dil-Cédà.
0:09.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:11.0	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we're taking a tour of different kinds of Christmas traditions
0:15.0	our friends observe across Europe.
0:17.0	High in a snowy village in the Swiss Alps, St Nicholas arrives by Donkey with treats and a lecture for the children.
0:23.5	In the countryside of Portugal, families gather around Christmas Eve bonfires after midnight
0:27.9	mass.
0:28.9	Don't forget everybody went to see the birth of Jesus.
0:32.0	While in Catholic Austria they're visiting candlelit cemeteries to wish Merry Christmas to the dead.
0:37.8	In Bulgaria, children search for the lucky coin hidden in a piece of pita bread,
0:41.4	beans obligatory must be on the table.
0:43.7	And in busy London the mince pies and Christmas
0:46.4	puddings are ready to eat.
0:47.8	Oliver Cromwell banned them in the 17th century.
0:50.7	Well he banned Christmas.
0:51.7	Yeah.
0:52.4	We're plugging into some of the European ways to celebrate the season today on Travel with
0:56.7	Rick Steves.
0:58.1	Stay with us.
1:00.8	Today on Travel with Rick Steves, we're getting into the full Christmas spirit, European style, for the hour ahead, and there's not a shopping mall in sight.
1:08.0	Whether it's enjoying a meal of salted codfish in Lisbon, watching St Nicholas pull into port in the Netherlands,
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