452 Slow Train to Switzerland; Artist Safari; Joys of Travel
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Learn how tourism as we know it was invented by middle-class, Victorian-era English travelers seeking a pleasure trip in the Swiss Alps. Then listen in as a painter describes how peering into the eyes of savanna wildlife on an "artist's safari" deepened his appreciation for Africa's creatures. And join us as we examine the emotional benefits of travel, which start even before you've left home — and last well after you return.
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| 0:00.0 | The modern package tour began about 150 years ago |
| 0:03.8 | when the English booked passage for some fresh mountain air in the Alps. |
| 0:07.8 | We can enjoy beautiful mountain trains or a little bit of luxury if we can afford it |
| 0:12.0 | and it's all there because 150 years ago |
| 0:14.8 | Thomas Cook decided to take some people to Switzerland. |
| 0:17.8 | Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steve's we look at what an exotic holiday getaway |
| 0:22.1 | meant back in the days of Queen Victoria. |
| 0:25.0 | If you ever get to go on a safari in Africa, |
| 0:28.0 | wildlife artist Fred Krakovia suggests that you put your camera away and listen. |
| 0:33.0 | You want to shut your eyes and use your other senses to listen to the language the animal |
| 0:37.6 | kingdom uses to speak. |
| 0:39.4 | The messages they communicate about the magnificence and frailty of life. |
| 0:44.0 | And we look at the emotional reward you can expect when you allow time to be a little spontaneous. |
| 0:49.0 | Only the traveler goes to sleep with absolutely no idea what tomorrow will bring. |
| 0:54.8 | Come along just for the fun of it. |
| 0:56.4 | It's Travel with Rick Steve's. |
| 1:01.0 | Some of the most important moments in your travels are unlikely to be captured by just snapping a selfie. |
| 1:06.0 | Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves, Thomas Swick shares seven personal rewards that we can all expect from our travels. |
| 1:14.8 | And wildlife artist Fred Krakoviac explains how the animals and landscapes of Africa |
| 1:19.8 | speak to him when he's on an artist safari. While researching material for a book on his |
| 1:25.6 | new homeland of Switzerland, travel writer Dicken Bews stumbled upon a curious old travel |
| 1:30.4 | diary from the Victorian era. In it he read the observations of a Miss |
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