451a Lighthouses; Being Welsh; Stanway House
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Learn about the important role lighthouses played in the 19th century, and find out where you can visit interesting ones in the US and France. We'll also hear from a Welsh tour guide on the pride that comes from belonging to a distinctive corner of Great Britain, with its own language and traditions. And Rick visits England's Stanway House, a slightly eccentric version of Downton Abbey.
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| 0:00.0 | They come with a great view and sometimes with dramatic stories of sea rescues they've witnessed. |
| 0:05.3 | Coming up on today's Travel with Rick Steve's, we'll go Lighthouse Hopping around the world. |
| 0:10.0 | They're always in these amazing locations, right? I mean the very definition of a lighthouse is that it's on the sort of edge of civilization. |
| 0:18.0 | Are you charmed by the idea of visiting manor houses and estates in the English countryside. |
| 0:23.0 | In just a bit, we'll hear what it's like to work for a British nobleman at his estate in scenic |
| 0:28.3 | Gloucestershire. |
| 0:29.4 | Just occasionally you get that little indication that they are just slightly different to the rest of us |
| 0:35.2 | and it could be him dropping out a story that he's been to a party at Windsor Castle |
| 0:40.0 | or visit the Celtic speaking people in nearby Wales and they might let you in on a secret |
| 0:45.3 | how they feel about their longtime rivals in England. There's always a little bit of |
| 0:49.9 | envy, you know, we're very well-balanced people in Wales, we have a chip on both shoulders. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's get away together for the hourhead. |
| 0:56.0 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:59.0 | The soil's too rocky to farm, |
| 1:02.0 | and its industrial heyday is becoming a distant memory. |
| 1:05.0 | Coming up in just a bit, our favorite guide from Kanarvan tells us how the people of Wales cling to an identity that sets them apart from the rest of Britain. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll also get a peek inside the slightly faded |
| 1:16.0 | splendor of a rambling English estate |
| 1:18.0 | with a guide who shows visitors around Stanway House in the summer. |
| 1:21.0 | If you're lucky, the colorful Lord of the Manor will be on hand |
| 1:24.0 | to explain some of his family's historical curiosities. |
| 1:27.0 | Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves with a look at the noble watchtowers of the world's |
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