If you think it's hard work building a house these days, imagine what it was like to construct a castle back in the Middle Ages.

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Actually, you won't have to imagine because a team of castle builders are hard at work right now in France, recreating the methods used by tradesmen back in the 13th century.

And they've started building castle number two here in the USA in the Ozarks.

We have a catapult that's in progress right now. We've got all the pieces laid out. It's absolutely

enormous and when they get it put together we'll start flinging things.

Julie Sanvoa explains what it's like to build a castle coming up shortly on travel with Rick

Steve's. And if a man's house is his castle, imagine what it's like to learn you're really

a prince from a dispossessed royal check family with more than one castle waiting for you on your return to Europe.

There were always three things that were stressed in our family, which was your family and then your religion and your education,

because those were the three things that couldn't be taken away from you.

Meet the accidental nobleman William Lobcovitz in the hour ahead.

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In Prague you can buy ice cream fit for a prince.

Actually, you can buy ice cream from a prince.

Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we're meeting a prince from Prague whose family was able to return to their ancestral home, actually a collection of castles,

after the fall of communism in 1989.

William Lubbitts was raised in Boston by an ex-Pat family of Czech Royals. We'll learn how an ancient noble family's

fortunes have changed and the role they now play in reconnecting 21st century Prague with its

magnificent past. That's coming up in just a bit on travel with Rick

Steve's. Let's start with an unusual way an international team of builders

are recreating the 13th century. For example, without bulldozers or electricity, you rig up a man-sized hamster

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