In Belgium, a beer tour can be a highlight of your visit.

They do beer tours in the city, where you can go to authentic bars where you stand still on a 16-17th century wooden floor

and you drink at the glasses that you have been using for centuries.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, tour guides from Europe join us to talk up their home turf

and to help you get started looking up your ancestors in the old country.

Stay with us for highlights of the low countries,

where there's rarely a language barrier,

and hear how getting to know the region,

from Flanders to Flevoland can be fun.

Linker behind one of those beers and then you really get people talking.

And in Ireland, the pub conversation might include meeting a distant relative for the first time, or even finding

your last name in the most surprising places.

We trace his name, his name is inscribed on the church bell of my hometown.

We discovered that he's ancestors were the sovereigns of

can sail. Join us as we do a little digging under the family tree. It's travel with

Rick Steve's. We've drafted a couple of Belgian-born tour guides to bring us the highlights of the low countries today on Travel with Rick Steves.

And don't be surprised to meet a few beer pilgrims along the way.

And since being Irish is one of the most common ethnic backgrounds for Americans, two guides

from Ireland will join us to help you get started researching your family lineage in Ireland,

both north and south.

First, let's check in with a couple of listeners who wrote us about their own experiences

looking up ancestors in Europe.

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