626 Unraveling America; Spanish Civil War Sites; Photogenic Scotland
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 23 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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A Canadian observer of America's malaise offers what he calls an "intervention" to his friends in the USA. Plus, we'll explore Spain's civil war with a pair of Spanish tour guides whose families still feel the after-effects of the Franco era decades later. And we make time to find beauty in the Gothic stained-glass marvel of Saint-Chappelle in Paris and the photogenic landscapes of Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | His Rolling Stone article about the unravelling of America stirred up a hornet's nest about how the rest of the world has been viewing the United States. |
| 0:09.0 | One of the incredible things about the states is that it's been always the best of all things the worst of all |
| 0:14.2 | things that's why everybody loves it you know everybody wants to go there. |
| 0:17.3 | Coming up Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis tells us why he thinks some of his |
| 0:21.7 | American neighbors might need a wake-up call. |
| 0:24.7 | In Spain, political debate turned into civil war in the 1930s. |
| 0:28.8 | Guides from Spain tell us about the places you can visit to learn what their history can teach us today. |
| 0:34.0 | It was not the north against south. It was people with things against people without things. |
| 0:38.0 | And a nature photographer shares tips for capturing the impressive scenery you'll find in Scotland. |
| 0:43.3 | Look at these incredible shades of light that come from the heavens as if it's just |
| 0:47.1 | pinpointing. |
| 0:48.1 | Little things we look at, we call them the silver jewels of the earth. |
| 0:52.1 | Come along for the hour ahead. |
| 0:54.0 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:57.0 | A Scottish photographer offers pointers for where you should aim your camera to bring back a souvenir of the wild majesty of Scotland. |
| 1:07.0 | And friends from Spain share how a civil war in their country three generations ago still affects the way many of their |
| 1:13.1 | countrymen view one another. That's coming up in the hourhead on today's |
| 1:16.8 | travel with Rick Steve's. We're all glad to have survived 2020. The change in |
| 1:22.1 | the U.S. administration suggests it may be time for a different |
| 1:24.9 | tone and how Americans work on the issues our country needs to tackle. But are we up for it? |
| 1:30.6 | An essay on The Unravelling of America, an anthropologist Wade Davis wrote for Rolling Stone last August, got people talking. |
| 1:38.0 | He joins us now from his home near Vancouver, BC to explore America's changing role in global politics. |
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