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Travel with Rick Steves

358 Cuba by Motorcycle; Celtic Middle Earth; Irish Craic

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Get a fresh look at Cuba and Ireland: Hear from a motorcycle-tour guide about how Americans can now legally visit Cuba, then learn about the sophisticated celestial-based geometry the ancient Celts used to organize their world. Listen in as a pair of Irishmen share a beer and a little banter with Rick for Saint Patrick's Day.

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0:00.0

After decades of traveling across Cuba, Christopher Baker knows something many politicians don't.

0:05.6

Cubans allheartedly love Americans and they demonstrate that in every meeting that you have with a Cuban.

0:11.1

One of the world's leading authorities on tourism in Cuba is back to tell us about the

0:15.1

motorcycle tours he's started leading across the island.

0:18.4

And Americans won't have to sneak in through Mexico or Canada to get there either.

0:23.0

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.

0:24.0

Coming up, we'll also hear what author Graham Robs discovered about the ancient Celts.

0:29.0

How they organized and mapped their world all the way from the Black Sea to Scotland on a sophisticated

0:34.4

celestial-based form of mathematics.

0:37.1

What seems to be insignificant and uncontrolled is in fact part of a pattern. If you're in on the secret you realize what the

0:45.0

pattern means but you're only shown a little part of it.

0:47.8

Graham Rob conjures up a Celtic view of Iron Age Europe that's been hidden for centuries and will make time for some friendly conversation

0:55.0

and song Irish style in the hour ahead.

0:57.8

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

1:00.8

When Graham Rob embarks on a bicycle journey, he's liable to come back with a groundbreaking book.

1:06.0

He'll join us in July to talk about his intimate portrayal of the regions of France that he wrote in his book, The Discovery of France.

1:13.0

Today he wrote in his book, The Discovery of France.

1:14.0

Today he joins us to discuss his latest work about the lost world of the ancient Celts.

1:20.0

That and some genuine Irish banter and good cheer will get you in the real spirit of

1:23.8

St. Patrick's Day in just a bit. Let's open up today's travel with Rick

1:27.8

Steve's with a novel way to visit Cuba. After 30 years of research trips to Cuba, last year, Christopher P. Baker led the first group of Americans on an authorized motorcycle tour since the Castro Revolution.

1:41.0

They rode past fields waving with sugarcane and tobacco and were welcomed into small towns

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