New Year's Eve in Scotland. It includes lots of time-tested rituals for good luck.

And you open at the strike of midnight, you open your front door and rush through and open the back door,

so you're welcoming in the New year and letting the old year out.

Coming up, we borrow a few European customs for welcoming the new year.

When choosing a wine for your festivities, you'll find Spain is commanding more shelf space.

Spanish wine for years was really in the backseat.

And Italian French wine have always been quite well known.

But finally, over the last two and a half decades,

Spain has basically profited unlike Northern Nation in the wine scene.

And while filming a documentary about the ancient world of Alexander the Great,

David Adams found modern travel to parts of Central Asia could be a challenge.

Turkmenistan is a case in itself.

It's like a time capsule.

Very beautiful and I would encourage anybody to travel to Turkmenistan because it is fabulous.

But it is fabulous.

There's plenty to explore in the hour ahead.

It's travel with Rick Steves. The Oh, He didn't expect to find evidence that would redefine the legacy of Alexander the Great.

But when David Adams filmed his journeys into rarely visited territory in the stands of Central Asia,

the world of the fourth century BC started to come into focus.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, we travel in the footsteps of Alexander the Great.

We'll also get expert advice for including the Great Wines of Spain to make

any occasion more festive. Let's get ready to welcome in the New Year European style.

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