418 Bath, England; Yucatan Living; What They're Talking About in Spain
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Find out why Bath is an ideal city to visit for a little R&R in the English countryside, then hear why one American expat, who runs a popular website about her life in the Yucatán, left California with her husband to start a new life in the Mexican city of Mérida. And get clued in on the hot-button topics under discussion in the bars and cafés of Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | When you step into a new culture and want to fit in, it helps to know about the news and the gossip that locals are talking about. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a big mistake. It was a big major mistake. |
| 0:09.0 | We all knew that thanks to a paparazzi who was right there. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 0:14.0 | Friends from Spain fill us in on the shenanigans of their royal family, |
| 0:17.0 | and the more serious topics they're discussing these days |
| 0:20.0 | in the tapest bars and coffee shops of Spain. |
| 0:23.0 | Since Roman times, the hottest gossip in Britain, |
| 0:25.5 | has often been found at the spa town of Bath. |
| 0:28.5 | Everybody that was anybody who wants you to visit Bath. |
| 0:31.0 | A hometown guide from Bath explains why it's such an ideal place to enjoy the |
| 0:35.2 | pleasures of England and an American tells us about the pleasant surprises she |
| 0:39.4 | found after she and her husband said goodbye to their lives in the USA and relocated in Merida in southern Mexico. |
| 0:46.2 | There's a lot of beautiful old homes, many of which when we first moved there were crumbling, abandoned. |
| 0:52.4 | It's the talk of the town on today's travel with Rick Steeves. |
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