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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 21 January 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Travel writer Dave Fox discusses everyday life as an American in Saigon, then British actor David Suchet explains why this year's 500-year anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is so important — and why London is the world's best city for theater. Plus, listeners get Rick's advice for making the most of their European travel plans for 2017.

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0:00.0	When you make your living as a travel writer and a tour guide, you could live practically anywhere in the world.
0:06.0	Once Dave Fox visited Vietnam, he knew it was where he wanted to live.
0:10.0	Hochiman City grabbed me right away.
0:12.0	It's got this just frenetic energy that's contagious and it's a little intoxicating.
0:16.5	In just a bit, we'll hear how the city we used to call Saigon is becoming a magnet for tourists and expats.
0:23.8	David Suchet helps us understand the importance of the 500 year anniversary of the Protestant
0:28.5	reformation, when Martin Luther helped change the world.
0:32.0	I'm where I am am with or without faith.
0:35.0	I live in a world that is affected by the Reformation.
0:39.0	The actor best known on TV as Inspector Poirot,
0:42.0	is now narrating a new documentary
0:44.3	about the Reformation.
0:45.9	David shares with us his own faith story,
0:48.3	and also why he finds London to be the best city
0:51.2	in the world for an actor to live.
0:53.0	And listeners share their European travel plans for the year ahead.
0:56.0	It's all coming up on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.0	Five hundred years ago you couldn't interpret what's written in the Bible for yourself without risking your life.
1:06.0	But after Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis to the door of a German Abbey,
1:10.0	the Protestant Reformation freed people to define their own faith and this tumultuous event helped Europe enter the modern age
1:18.6	Coming up today on travel with Rick Steve's British actor David Suchet gets the Reformation's 500th anniversary
1:25.4	started with his own story.
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