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Travel with Rick Steves

551 Cappadocia; Scottish Troubadour; Northern Ireland Identity

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Two Turkish tour guides paint an audio picture of the otherworldly region of Cappadocia, where you can get face-to-face with early Christian history. Then, just ahead of Burns Night, Scottish folk singer Jim Malcolm shares some of the poetry that adds depth to the traditional music of Scotland. And tour guides from Northern Ireland describe how their fellow countrymen have largely overcome sectarian strife, and discuss the questions that linger as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

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0:00.0

There's a part of Central Turkey where ancient cave churches and a landscape of fairy chimneys make for a setting like nowhere else on Earth.

0:09.0

When you go there you feel that you are no longer on this planet but you are somewhere else in the universe.

0:15.0

Coming up we explore Kapidocia.

0:17.0

Scottish singer Jim Malcolm reveals the origins of his country's hauntingly beautiful balance.

0:23.0

Good tunes attract words, and in fact our great hero Robert Burns.

0:28.0

That's what basically he did.

0:30.0

He would take tunes that he liked and pen beautiful words to him.

0:33.5

Plus guides from Northern Ireland explain what it's like to be from their corner of the island.

0:38.0

I don't know, I think we get a bit of a bad rap. We tend to be seen as rather serious, not like to spend too much money, keeping things

0:47.0

to ourselves a little bit uptight.

0:50.1

Come along for a close-up look at Northern Ireland, the folk music of Scotland, and Turkey's

0:55.0

Cappadocia. In the hour ahead, it's travel with Rick Steves.

1:00.9

It can warm your spirit to explore the traditions of another culture.

1:05.0

Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steve's, Scottish folk singer Jim Malcolm shares the music of legendary poet Robert Burns.

1:12.8

And friends from Northern Ireland, one Catholic,

1:15.0

the other Protestant, explain what it means to them

1:17.7

to be from their corner of the Emerald Isle

1:19.8

now that peace has replaced all that sectarian fighting.

1:23.0

Let's start the hour with a look at one of the most unusual places you'll ever see.

1:28.0

Traditional Turkish village life is alive and well in the Capidocchio region at the center of the Anatolian Peninsula.

1:35.4

It includes amazing old world history that you can see up close and some of the most otherworldly

1:41.3

terrain on earth.

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