335a Family Croatia; Bumpy Balkans; Exploring Northern Italy
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Hear what two Americans learned about a different way of life after immersing themselves in everyday life in the Balkans, including Croatia. Then listen in as we explore the highlights of northern Italy, from Milan and Lake Como to small Alpine towns where Germanic influences add an intriguingly un-Italian touch.
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| 0:00.0 | When you might settle into a small village in the once communist former Yugoslavia, |
| 0:05.0 | you might notice how some things haven't really changed much. |
| 0:09.0 | Croatia was free, it could have anything it wanted now. |
| 0:12.0 | Now what are they going to do with all of that? |
| 0:14.0 | And the women just kept doing what they were doing, which was working all the time. |
| 0:17.0 | And the men were kind of thinking about it. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves, and the hour ahead Jennifer Wilson explains what her young family learned from half a year |
| 0:24.3 | in small town Croatia. |
| 0:26.7 | And after Francis Tappan lived in each country of the Balkan Peninsula, he came back with a |
| 0:31.6 | books worth of observations like this about the Bulgarians. |
| 0:35.0 | They do look after each other and that's one thing that still exists today. |
| 0:38.0 | Plus tour guides from Italy investigate the high-powered north of their country. |
| 0:42.0 | Milan is less than 20 miles away from Switzerland. |
| 0:45.0 | That reflects in the mentality in the temperament in the behavior, the lifestyle, the food. |
| 0:50.0 | Life in the Balkans and Northern Italy. |
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