If you'd like a little taste of Europe without the transatlantic flight, you can find traces of the old world in America, like Solvang, California.

It's just so charming because you're going through one, you know, beachside city after the next and it's that California laid back feel

and then boom you're in Europe. Travel writer Cheney quack hope to see the

Northern Lights on a winter cruise in Norway. Cruises really prepare you for the Northern Lights experience because a lot of cruising is about waiting.

He tells us how he survived the ship's near tragic encounter with a freak winter storm.

Iceland gives you access to the raw drama of the Arctic on Terra Firma,

especially when you venture away from Reykjavik.

You've left the city, you've maybe just come from the Apple store,

and then half an hour you're on the moon in a Black Sun desert.

Iceland's backcountry, the Viking Sky incident and finding Europe in America.

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dot com as we look for Europe in North America. Travel writer Cheney Quack tells us

how the Norwegian cruise ship he was on met a freak winter cyclone that came close to turning into a major disaster.

And we're reminded what a fierce beauty camping out in Iceland can be coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves. Who says you have to

actually go to Europe to get a taste of the old world? After all, many American

and Canadian cities and towns were settled by European immigrants.

Sometimes they tried to recreate a bit of what they knew from the old country.

So even if we can't go to Europe, we can discover a bit of it right here in our hemisphere.

Samantha Brown hosts the Public Television Travel. a bit of it right here in our hemisphere.

Samantha Brown hosts the public television travel series,

Places to Love, where she films from destinations

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