446 Wild Europe; Greece 2016; France 2016
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The producer of "Bear Trek" talks about the bears and wolves that still live in Romania, Scotland, and the Alps, and discusses efforts to "re-wild" the open spaces of Europe. Then tour guides take calls to help listeners plan summer vacations to far-flung corners of Greece and France.
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| 0:00.0 | Are the news headlines keeping you away from Greece? |
| 0:04.0 | Slowly but steadily things are changing to the benefit of most of the people, though |
| 0:09.7 | there are very many people still struggling. |
| 0:12.0 | Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we'll hear how the Greeks are trying to meet their economic |
| 0:16.4 | challenges and why this just might be the ideal time for you to visit the birthplace of democracy. |
| 0:22.5 | Also, guides from France share tips for planning summer getaways |
| 0:25.9 | well beyond Paris. |
| 0:27.2 | I tell people just to let magic happen |
| 0:29.2 | because if you have the free time and if you haven't planned yourself |
| 0:32.2 | so full that you can't enjoy it, the French are partying. |
| 0:35.0 | And if you prefer the wilder side of Europe, |
| 0:37.0 | Ecologist Chris Morgan finds that a lack of development in Romania makes it your best bet for seeing a |
| 0:43.9 | grizzly bear. Giant carnivores that have been there for thousands of years and so it's |
| 0:48.0 | a really quite special feeling when you're in those forests. Get updates on |
| 0:51.9 | visiting Greece, France, and the wildest places in Europe in the hour ahead. |
| 0:56.0 | It's travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:00.6 | We get a personal look at what it's like to live behind the news headlines in Greece, |
| 1:05.0 | plus travel advice for visiting France. |
| 1:07.0 | That's coming up in just a bit today on Travel with Rick Steeves. |
| 1:10.0 | But first, have you ever ventured into a wilderness setting but felt like something was missing? |
| 1:15.0 | Ecologist Chris Morgan has been tracking the survival of wildlife that used to thrive undisturbed all around the world. |
| 1:22.0 | The frequent host of nature |
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