594 Basque Carnaval; Venice Sinking; Ghosts in Papua New Guinea
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Learn why acqua alta episodes are flooding Venice more frequently — and what it was like to live through a week of near-record floods last November. Hear what it takes to hike across Papua New Guinea on the notorious Kokoda Trail. And discover the traditions behind the February "Carnaval" celebrations in the Basque Country of France and Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | Venice is built on a foundation of problems. |
| 0:04.0 | The fundamentals of the city of Venice were eaten away so by the 1970s |
| 0:10.0 | Venice was sinking because of all of this rot. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up, we examine why Venice recently had its worst flooding in 50 years |
| 0:18.0 | and how its residents suffered through it. |
| 0:20.0 | The Borra winds and the Sharako winds and the rain and the full moon everything |
| 0:25.2 | combines perfectly to allow this one week of pressure. We'll also hear what it's like |
| 0:31.8 | to hike the length of the infamous |
| 0:33.4 | Cocota Trail across Papua New Guinea. It was the site of fierce battles during the |
| 0:37.7 | Second World War. The jungle at times is oppressive and all you can see is 37 shades of green. |
| 0:45.0 | And hear how to celebrate carnival like they do in Basc Country. |
| 0:49.0 | Many people they go and see carnival, but you have to leave it. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's see the world together in the hour ahead. It's travel. go into Sea Carnival, but you have to leave it. |
| 0:52.6 | Let's see the world together in the hour ahead. |
| 0:54.4 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:59.7 | Exceptionally high tides in the Venice Lagoon |
| 1:02.4 | caused near record flooding in November of 2019. |
| 1:05.8 | In just a bit, we'll check in with Italy cultural expert Fred Plotkin and with a resident who |
| 1:10.3 | had to clean up after the aqua Ala flooded the ground floor of her home. |
| 1:14.0 | They'll share some interesting perspectives with us on why the high waters in Venice are getting |
| 1:18.9 | more and more serious. |
| 1:20.7 | And travel writer Rick Antonson tells us about one of the toughest hikes of his life |
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