294 Pico Iyer: A Traveler's Home is a Verb; Cape Town, South Africa

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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 21 July 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated author, Pico Iyer, shares how going it alone can actually clue you in to the global village that already surrounds you. Also, travel writer Will Hide tells us why Cape Town, South Africa is one of his favorite getaways -- where a pleasant climate, easy access to outdoor adventures, and friendly people are just an overnight flight from London.

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0:00.0	Why do you travel?
0:02.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:03.0	Travel writer Picoire has been noticing lately that a lot of travelers are paying a premium to get away
0:08.0	just to find a little peace and quiet.
0:10.0	What people most want on holiday is freedom from their habits as well as their homes and the chance to be unplugged to be out of radio contact.
0:17.6	Nobody from the office can get to them. Well that's one reason I stay in a monastery a lot.
0:21.6	Peko Eyre joins us in the hour ahead to mull over some of the quiet places that make us feel at home wherever we may roam.
0:29.0	London-based travel writer Will Hyde recommends a favorite beach near Cape Town South Africa as a perfect
0:34.5	place to relax. If you wanted to go to one spot with a nice cool cocktail and
0:39.4	watch the sun go down then you could not go wrong with doing it in Camps Bay watching
0:44.2	the sun sink over the beach there.
0:46.3	And we'll look into how easy it is to get your adrenaline really going with the abundance
0:49.8	of outdoor adventures around the southern tip of Africa.
0:52.8	Enjoying quiet places and a guide to Cape Town.
0:56.0	It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.
1:01.0	Listen.
1:02.3	Do you hear that?
1:03.0	It's hard to find silence anymore and maybe looking for it on the radio is not really the best place.
1:08.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
1:10.0	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we're meeting one of today's most respected travel riders.
1:15.0	Pico Ayer joins us in just a moment to help us enjoy the quiet places of our world
1:21.0	and to feel at home even in the silence of being an outsider when of our travel writer Will Hyde joins us from his home
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