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Travel with Rick Steves

421 Monet's Garden Passion; Ireland's Ring of Kerry; The Carry Home

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Author and artist Elizabeth Murray tells how her life was changed by working in painter Claude Monet's gardens outside Paris. Then Irish tour guides take us to the scenic highlights of the popular Ring of Kerry peninsula. And nature writer Gary Ferguson reveals how cultivating a relationship with the natural world helps us better understand life's mystery and beauty.

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Sometimes you have to leave home to find the place that feeds your soul.

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And I felt the spirit and presence of Monet, which was the biggest factor that made me want to quit everything and move there and work.

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Coming up, author Elizabeth Murray tells us how a visit Tamoni's Gardens near Paris transformed

0:19.5

her life.

0:20.5

For naturalist Gary Ferguson, the Journey of Self Discovery led West.

0:24.8

I happened to see in a magazine at a drugstore when I was about nine photographs,

0:29.8

these big beautiful full-color photographs of the Rockies and it just struck me

0:33.2

that that's where I I needed to be that the store could drop me a little bit too

0:36.6

far to the east. We'll also tour Ireland's Ring of Cary where medieval monks

0:41.4

tuft out wild storms and Viking raids on the island of

0:44.8

Skellig Michael. Now it would really be for the intrepid traveler. It wouldn't be

0:49.1

for everybody to get out there. It is hard to get out there. the conditions can be choppy and roof.

0:53.8

Take a journey you won't soon forget in the hour ahead.

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Whether you enjoy the wild and rugged versions of nature,

1:28.0

or if you'd rather smell the roses

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