620 Frankfurt; Ghostways; Where I Really Want to Go
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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We look beyond the dazzling skyscrapers of Frankfurt to find the city's street-level charms, with the help of a friendly pair of German tour guides. Author Robert Macfarlane tells us about two of England's most mysterious landscapes, in Dorset and Suffolk, which he finds himself drawn to. And Rick checks with more listeners on how they're coping with this year's canceled travel plans.
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| 0:00.0 | With modern skyscrapers and savvy business people scurrying all about, |
| 0:04.4 | Frankfurt is Germany's financial center. It's also become a great weekend getaway |
| 0:09.7 | with interesting stories to share. |
| 0:11.5 | The gentleman who invented the sausage actually came from |
| 0:15.4 | Frankfurt before industrial mincing. Making such heavily minced meat was incredibly refined |
| 0:21.6 | craftsmanship. |
| 0:22.6 | On today's travel with Rick Steve's guides from Germany tell us why Frankfurt is hot. |
| 0:27.4 | Go beneath the surface in the pastoral landscapes of Britain and you'll find a lot more |
| 0:31.9 | than meets the eye. |
| 0:33.4 | Author Robert McCarlin investigates two unnerving places |
| 0:37.4 | where nature's overgrowth casts a shadow |
| 0:39.9 | over a sinister past. |
| 0:41.5 | We have such an idea of landscapes often as peaceful or tranquil or |
| 0:45.2 | pastoral or green. |
| 0:47.1 | And almost none of them are. |
| 0:48.6 | There's very rarely an innocent landscape. |
| 0:50.4 | I wanted to dig down into the bones. And we'll look at where you want to go as soon as it's safe to head out again. |
| 0:56.0 | It's travel with Rick Steeves. |
| 0:58.0 | Stay with us. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 1:01.0 | In my latest book, For the Love of Europe, I share the highlights of a lifetime of exploring Europe. |
| 1:07.0 | My favorite experiences, sights, and encounters in a hundred essays. |
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