270 International Christmas Party

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 25 December 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Rick celebrates Christmas with friends from near and far, hearing about holiday traditions from Holland and Hungary, Sicily and Scotland, learning about the unique ways people light up the season in Santa Fe, and discovering how scientists at a research station in Antarctica make merry, plus listeners share some of their favorite Christmas memories from holiday travels. 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	Christmas is a time of joy and celebration and maybe it comes with a little dose of fear as children all around the world wait to see what St Nick has in store for them.
0:08.5	He is the one who could eventually put you in the sack if you hadn't been a nice child that year.
0:15.6	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. In the hour ahead, we'll hear about the special touches people
0:20.3	give to the holidays in different corners of the world from Santa Fe to Sicily,
0:24.5	Amsterdam to Bucharest, and in Edinburgh where it's a tradition to leave out a little
0:29.2	something extra on Christmas Eve for the old man.
0:31.8	I was brought up always to leave a wee drum for Santa as well
0:35.4	because you needed a wee whiskey to get him over the North Pole.
0:38.2	And in Antarctica, summer and December means the sun doesn't set on the party. You can enjoy your bourbon or your scotch or your gin
0:46.0	over glacial ice that is tens of thousands of years old.
0:50.0	This beautiful clear ice.
0:53.0	We're saving a comfy seat for you in our slave,
0:55.0	so come along for an international Christmas.
0:58.0	It's Travel with Rick Steves. And the Lala, la, la, la, la,
1:13.0	la, la, la, la,
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1:18.0	la, la, la, and la, la,
1:20.0	la,
1:21.0	la, la, We are having a Christmas party international style today on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:35.0	I'm Rick Steeves and I've invited some of my friends from all around the globe to join us
1:39.4	and tell us how they celebrate the Christmas holidays where they live. We'll hear how children
1:44.7	experience Christmas, some of the different characters that inhabit their
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