568 Italy 2019; Today's Israel
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tour guides from Rome and Sorrento help listeners plan Italian adventures and let us in on how some things work — or don't work — in Italy. Then journalist Martin Fletcher tells us about living in Israel as well as the political pressures that will prevent a resolution to Israeli-Palestinian tensions from happening anytime soon.
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| 0:00.0 | If I had to choose one country as my favorite to visit in Europe, I'd have to pick Italy. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 0:07.0 | Even though living for Tissimo can include massive crowds of tourists from all over the world, |
| 0:12.0 | the locals know there's also an upside. of Businesses have bloomed because of that. We have more opportunity of places to go, where to stay, where to eat. |
| 0:26.0 | Guides from Italy take your calls to coach you with your travel plans and to prime you for dealing with some of those little cultural differences. |
| 0:34.0 | They have perfected the art of practice significance. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus journalist Martin Fletcher tells us how much Israel has changed as his home base over the years. |
| 0:42.0 | Tel Aviv has changed dramatically, |
| 0:44.0 | become such a cosmopolitan, interesting, large town. |
| 0:48.0 | Find out what's happening in Italy this year |
| 0:50.0 | and how to get the most out of a visit to Israel. |
| 0:53.0 | It's all in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steeves. |
| 0:56.0 | He's certainly earned his retirement after many years and accolades as a news |
| 1:06.0 | correspondent to many of the world's hot spots. Martin Fletcher is back with us |
| 1:10.3 | today on Travel with Rick Steves to share his view of his home base, Israel, as a travel destination. |
| 1:16.0 | I consider the test of a good traveler is how they respond to Italy. |
| 1:21.0 | There's so much to enjoy in Italy, it's hard to get enough of it. But the differences |
| 1:25.3 | that can charm you one minute might frustrate you the next. I've learned by experience that Italy |
| 1:30.5 | can force us to reassess our attitudes and expectations. |
| 1:34.4 | We're joined now by American-born tour guides, Anne Long, and Nina Bernardo to look at what's |
| 1:39.4 | happening this year in Italy. |
| 1:40.8 | Anne has been living on the Amalfi coast near Sorrento for decades and |
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