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Travel with Rick Steves

664 Tblisi; Bruges; Milan

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A young "digital nomad" tells us why Tblisi, in the Republic of Georgia, makes an ideal home base for working abroad. Then a Belgian tour guide describes what visitors enjoy most when exploring the medieval town center of Bruges. And tour guides from Italy share tips for people-watching among the high-fashion café society of Milan — and the cocktails to enjoy while doing so.

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0:00.0

They know how to make you feel welcome when you arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia.

0:05.0

You give them your passport, they give you a stamp for one year as a tourist,

0:08.0

and then they hand you a mini bottle of wine.

0:11.0

Coming up, we'll hear how one American is getting ahead by working from home

0:15.0

in an ancient hub on the Silk Road,

0:18.0

or consider the fairytale setting of Bruce.

0:21.0

As a hometown guide explains, it's an ideal place to taste the old world pleasures of Belgium.

0:26.0

Every Belgian beer has to be drunk from a specific glass.

0:30.0

And guides from Italy tell us why Milan is one of their favorite cities to explore

0:34.0

for history and culture, or just people watching and getting a peek at the latest fashions.

0:39.0

Probably I'm going window shopping.

0:42.0

Armani, Prada, Versace, Versace.

0:45.0

It's a tale of three cities in the hour ahead,

0:49.0

as we take a closer look at Tbilisi, Bruce and Milan.

0:53.0

Come along, it's travel with Rick Steves.

1:00.0

We're setting our sights on three completely different cities today on travel with Rick Steves.

1:04.0

Milan is the home to Da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper.

1:07.0

We'll hear what else it offers visitors to Italy's commercial powerhouse city.

1:12.0

For an intimate alternative, a hometown guide tells us what to see in the canal-lined heart of Bruce and Belgium.

1:18.0

Let's start the hour, checking in with Mike Swaganski from his home studio in Tbilisi, Georgia.

1:24.0

After living in Medellin, Colombia for a year,

1:27.0

and dealing with the headache of constant visa renewals and approvals,

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