6 Poland

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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 15 May 2005

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rick learns how quickly Poland has modernized in the past ten years in a conversation with Polish tour guide Kasia Derlicka. Kasia offers ideas for travelers investigating genealogical roots and history and explains some of the soul of Poland, as reflected in the music of native-born Frederick Chopin. Also, Cameron Hewitt, co-author of Rick's Eastern European guidebook, found himself in Krakow on the April night word spread that the Pope had died. He describes the scene and its place in modern Polish history. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. It seems like just yesterday, but it's been an entire year now since
0:05.0	travel with Rick Steve's debuted on our flagship affiliate KUOW in Seattle. It was quite a weekend
0:10.5	too. We debuted during the middle of the Spring Fun Drive and even though they hadn't heard
0:14.8	a full show yet, KUW listeners behaved generously. We knew from the start that we were connecting
0:19.8	with a listening audience curious about our world and eager to explore it.
0:24.0	Also that weekend, thousands of miles away in Poland, our senior editor happened to arrive in the
0:28.7	Pope's home city crack-out just hours before word got out that John Paul II had passed away.
0:34.0	In just a moment we'll hear the report Cameron Hewitt filed as he stood and
0:38.0	mourned shoulder to shoulder with the Pope's fellow countrymen.
0:41.0	We're also revisiting Poland with a tour guide friend who grew up in Warsaw.
0:45.0	Kasha Dalitska offers an intimate insight into her home country as we learn why Poland is one of the real hot spots these days in European tourism.
0:53.0	It's Poland from Vodka to Chopin on this week's Travel with Rick Steeves.
0:58.0	Stay with us.
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1:15.0	Poland, just a few years ago the country was so grim
1:18.0	people were taking their windshield wipers in with them at night
1:21.0	so they wouldn't get ripped off.
1:22.0	Now, the country, free and booming, is a festival
1:25.9	of pent-up entrepreneurial spirit. How can a land with so much sadness in its recent past
1:31.8	be so happy today? There's more to it than Vodka. We'll learn
1:36.2	all the latest on Poland from my friend and fellow tour guide who joins us from Warsaw,
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