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Travel with Rick Steves

420 Music of Spain; Space Station Living; Canine-American Road Trip

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tune into the traditional music of Spain and find out where to catch the best flamenco shows in Madrid. Then listen in as astronaut Chris Hadfield describes daily life aboard the International Space Station, and lets us in on how you get used to doing everything — and we mean everything — in zero gravity. And hear what a cross-country road trip showed a man and his dog about America's canine culture, and what they learned about each other.

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0:00.0

There's a rhythm to life in Spain that's different from the rest of the world.

0:04.0

You can hear it in their music.

0:06.0

The real, real flamenco players, they actually snap their fingers like this, Rick.

0:10.0

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Coming up, it's an insider's guide to the musical traditions of Spain.

0:18.8

For astronaut Chris Hadfield, there's nothing so beautiful as staring out the window of the International Space Station.

0:25.0

You just sit there peaceful, floating, watching some big swath of the world roll past.

0:31.0

It's an amazingly, distract amazingly beautiful place to be.

0:35.0

We'll learn the intimate details of everyday life 200 miles up into space.

0:39.0

And for a down-to-earth way to explore the USA,

0:42.0

you can try a canine- themed road trip with your dog.

0:45.0

So we have the highest rate of dog ownership in the world and we've really become this country where dogs are invited into more and more places.

0:52.0

From a dog's eye view to a close-up from outer space,

0:55.0

come along as we travel with Rick Steves.

1:00.0

One great way to connect with the locals

1:02.0

is to speak the language, or at least some of it.

1:05.0

Rosetta Stone is a fast fun way to learn.

1:08.0

It's got helpful tools like online video chats with native speaking teachers. You can take the Rosetta Stone demo

1:15.0

or purchase the program at a special discount at Rosetta Stone.com slash Rick

1:20.2

Steves. It has to be the ultimate way to decide where to take a vacation.

1:25.4

Chris Hadfield simply had to look out the window of the International Space Station

1:29.7

while orbiting the Earth and take notes on interesting-looking places to visit when he returned

1:34.8

to Terra Firma.

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