454 Gaelic Sport; An Ex-Pat's Vietnam; Open Phones-European Travels
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As Ireland gears up for another All-Ireland Championship, find out how Gaelic sports reflect a distinctly Irish identity. Hear what it's like for an American travel writer to live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Also, listeners recall some of their favorite travel memories from Ireland, Italy, Croatia, and Montenegro.
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| 0:00.0 | American football |
| 0:02.0 | it's just as rough |
| 0:06.0 | but played without helmets or pads. |
| 0:08.0 | And the rules are pretty different. |
| 0:10.0 | You have to solo the ball, which is |
| 0:12.0 | dropping the ball onto your foot and kicking it back to yourself. |
| 0:15.0 | It's also an entirely amateur affair. |
| 0:18.0 | Gaelic football stars will play in front of 80,000 people in Dublin and not receive a penny for it. There's no financial |
| 0:23.8 | reward. You might get free drinks in the local pub forever. Coming up we get coached |
| 0:28.2 | in the spirited world of Gaelic sports and find out why the latest generation of Americans are eager to go to Vietnam for vacation. |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine a holiday in Saigon. |
| 0:38.8 | The energy of the city is amazing and it just mesmerized me right away. |
| 0:43.0 | There's just a swirl of humanity and noise and color and chaos and it was just so fun and it just it reeled us in immediately. |
| 0:51.0 | Plus listeners share discoveries from their travels in Europe. |
| 0:55.3 | It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.6 | For some Americans, Vietnam will be forever associated with a bloody war, but it's been more than 40 years since American groups left Saigon, and a new generation is seeing the world in a different light. |
| 1:12.0 | With a booming economy and lush scenery, Vietnam has become |
| 1:15.1 | a popular destination for visitors from neighboring countries in Asia and Australia, |
| 1:20.2 | and nearly half a million Americans are now visiting each year. |
| 1:24.0 | In fact, the U.S. is the fourth largest source of tourists in Vietnam. |
| 1:28.0 | Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's, |
| 1:30.0 | we'll meet an American who's joined the growing number of what he calls digital |
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