Sometimes you don't have to travel very far at all to learn about the world.

You can write a very good history of the world by just looking at the things in your house.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.

Writer Bill Bryson Headlines today's very English edition of Travel with Rick

Steve's with a tour of the Victorian era house he calls home. And screen writer

Andrew Davis helps us observe the Bicentennial of Jane Austen's first book.

She writes about things that never go out of fashion, love and sex and money, conflict between the generations. So I've always been a terrific Jane Austen fan.

Also, Brit Lonsdaleman struck us on the proper way to enjoy a graceful afternoon tea service in London.

And then of course you've got to leave some room for pastries and cakes which will follow.

So it's not something that's to be hurried.

There's an elegant aspect to it.

It's English as can be in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves.

200 years after she published her very first novel,

Since and Sensibility, Jane Austin is actually as popular as ever.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves,

screenwriter Andrew Davis explains why he's such a big fan of her work and tells us where you can experience a slice of Jane Austen's England.

We'll also take time for an elegant afternoon tea as Britt Lonsdale gently walks us through what you can expect

and what's expected of you at a stylish London tea room.

Let's start at home with writer Bill Bryson.

In his most recent book, At Home, a short history of private life,

Bryson discovers room by room what his 1851 parsonage in small town England can teach us about the comforts of home we take

for granted today.

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