413a Folk Music of Italy; Swiss Watching; Weekend in Wales
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 30 March 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A musician from Orvieto provides examples of the different styles of folk music you can enjoy across Italy, then a British ex-pat tells us what it's like to live in Switzerland — and explains why the Swiss are deliberately different from the rest of their European neighbors. And one of the top Welsh tour guides shares pointers for fun things to explore on a weekend in Wales.
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| 0:00.0 | How do the Swiss do it? Their landlocked mash-up of four official languages separated by |
| 0:06.5 | Europe's tallest mountains somehow remains one of the most stable and affluent countries |
| 0:11.0 | in the world. |
| 0:12.0 | And so there's really nothing holding the country together apart from the fact |
| 0:15.4 | that the people want to be a country together and that has always been the case |
| 0:19.5 | and that's roughly what makes Switzerland succeed. |
| 0:22.1 | author Dicken Buse lets us in and how the Swiss that's roughly what makes Switzerland succeed. |
| 0:23.0 | Author Dickenbews lets us in on how the Swiss have managed to build a prosperous multicultural |
| 0:27.3 | nation that stands apart from the rest of Europe. |
| 0:31.2 | Regional differences in Italy make for a fertile environment for the arts. |
| 0:35.0 | Naples and Rome are only a couple of hour drive away from each other, |
| 0:39.0 | but they're two different worlds when it comes to music. |
| 0:42.0 | And what sets the Welsh apart from the rest of Britain? |
| 0:45.0 | So the Welsh were never understood linguistically. |
| 0:48.0 | They were different from the Anglo-Saxons. |
| 0:49.0 | They were foreigners. |
| 0:51.0 | Celebrate the differences that color our world in the hour ahead its travel with Rickse. foreigners. Switzerland can be a tricky country to figure out. It has four official languages and |
| 1:06.7 | refuses to join its neighbors in the European Union, but it also has one of the |
| 1:10.9 | healthiest economies and most well-ordered societies of any small country. |
| 1:16.0 | Best-selling British author Dick and Bueers figures that Switzerland is a country that probably shouldn't really exist. |
| 1:22.0 | We'll chat with him in a bit about why he |
| 1:24.4 | moved there and what he's discovered about what makes the Swiss tick. |
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