379 Biking in Amsterdam; How Paris Became Paris; Open Phones: Paris
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 20 September 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Find out how easy it is to cycle almost anywhere in The Netherlands. Also, learn how Paris was a leader in designing attractive plazas and parks that anyone can enjoy like an outdoor living room, whether you live there, or are just planning a visit.
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| 0:00.0 | A city as beautiful as Paris doesn't just happen all by itself. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming up, we'll learn how redevelopment projects from centuries past were designed to make Paris into a showcase city for the civilized world. |
| 0:14.0 | A city designed to help people get out and walk and appreciate the city and to enjoy a city. |
| 0:20.0 | That's something that was planned into Paris in the 17th century. |
| 0:23.2 | And I think that's a pretty amazing thing for rulers in the 1600s to be doing. |
| 0:27.8 | Author Joan dejaune explains how the rulers of France |
| 0:30.9 | designed Paris as a blueprint for what makes a city a great place to visit or live. |
| 0:36.0 | If you enjoy biking, you'll love Amsterdam. The Dutch have created a system of dedicated bike trails that can take you all around town or all the way to Belgium. |
| 0:45.0 | You don't ever have to get on the roads with the cars. There's bike pass designed specifically and only for bicycles. |
| 0:52.0 | Enjoy Paris and Amsterdam model cities for modern living in the hour ahead. |
| 0:56.0 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:59.0 | It's no accident of history that Paris displays a type of elegance the whole world admires. |
| 1:05.8 | Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steve's, we'll learn how urban planning as far back as the |
| 1:10.6 | 1600s fashioned Paris into the world's model for a civilized and |
| 1:15.1 | welcoming city and we'll check in with listener tales about visiting Paris a |
| 1:19.6 | little later in the hour at 877 333 7425. |
| 1:25.0 | One of the most enjoyable civilizing aspects of European cities is an increase in programs |
| 1:30.2 | to encourage biking as an alternative to cars and I'd say the Netherlands is Europe's |
| 1:35.8 | leader in making cycling an efficient way to get around. In fact I've found I can usually |
| 1:41.2 | find my way around Amsterdam faster by renting a bike that I keep |
| 1:45.0 | fastened to the rack in front of my hotel than by calling a cab. |
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