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Travel with Rick Steves

488 Enjoy Your Seat; Lisbon Neighborhoods; Buenos Aires Bio

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tune in as Rick gets tips from frequent traveler Wendy on how to actually enjoy a long-distance flight in coach. Then we'll hear expert advice from Lisbon-based tour guides for enjoying the intimate neighborhoods of Portugal's historic capital. And learn about the mix of European elegance and Latin culture that led architecture critic James Gardner to buy an apartment in Argentina's fascinating capital city.

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0:00.0

The streets of Lisbon really come alive for St Anthony's Day.

0:04.0

It's one of those times that there are no rules.

0:07.0

Already at lunchtime, people are in the streets eating sardines,

0:11.0

the music is booming out loud, so already you know there's something up.

0:14.0

Coming up, guides from Portugal take us into Lisbon's liveliest neighborhoods

0:18.0

including the ones that resist being gentrified.

0:21.0

A New York architecture critic explains his fascination with Buenos Aires.

0:25.0

Well I found it extraordinary that an entire generation would conscientiously seek to recreate Europe in the middle of the pampas.

0:35.0

James Gardner has written a biography of Buenos Aires to argue that the city itself is a work of art.

0:41.0

And Wendy Simmons helps us enjoy taking a long transatlantic flight.

0:45.6

You know, I look at long haul flights as uninterrupted me time.

0:49.9

Getting up close in Lisbon and Buenos Aires and enjoying the flight over.

0:54.0

It's all just ahead on today's travel with Rick Steve's. If you like to explore historic cities with funkier festive neighborhoods, we've got two for you to choose from in the hour ahead.

1:07.0

Tour guides from Portugal will help us navigate the street life in the tangle of cobbled lanes and lookouts in their capital as we get acquainted

1:15.0

with the neighborhoods of Lisbon.

1:17.5

And an architecture critic finds a lot to like in the faded charisma of Buenos Aires.

1:22.7

But first, writer Wendy Simmons returns to travel with Rick Steeves to help us look forward

1:27.4

to our next long airplane flight in Coach.

1:31.3

As a photographer and as a contributor to Huffington Post, Wendy has traveled a lot.

1:35.9

So far, she's been to 85 countries.

1:38.6

She doesn't dread the overseas flights at all.

1:40.5

In fact, she joins us now with her tips on enjoying your next flight.

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