685 Joanna Lumley’s Nile Adventure; Samantha Brown’s Happy Travels
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Actress Joanna Lumley details her 4,000-mile trek up the Nile River to the river's fabled source in Rwanda. Joanna shares what she learned from people she met while filming a documentary about the trip, and describes her ride to the pyramids on one very fine camel. And TV host Samantha Brown tells Rick how she keeps herself from stressing out over what could go wrong in her frequent travels.
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| 0:00.0 | The famous Dr. Livingston never found the source of the Nile River, but today a few hearty |
| 0:05.0 | souls can finally claim to having seen its legendary headwaters. |
| 0:09.1 | One of them is Johanna Lumley. |
| 0:10.9 | She joins us today to tell us about her 4,000 mile adventure of the Nile, from the Mediterranean |
| 0:15.6 | into the East African Highlands, where she got her first glimpse of its huge crocodiles. |
| 0:20.9 | It wasn't until we reached Uganda, where we saw them basking in all their majestic glory, |
| 0:26.6 | and to see them slipping with a slight bubble from the nostril into the river, and then |
| 0:30.1 | just slip, slip, slip, slip, and you think, oh, I'll keep my hand out of the workshop. |
| 0:34.8 | You have to pack patience and a plan B when your travel plans get interrupted. |
| 0:39.6 | Samantha Brown suggests it helps to treat it as just another part of your adventure. |
| 0:44.5 | Let that spontaneity of travel of being somewhere new kind of revitalize you and bring you back. |
| 0:50.8 | Samantha Brown's tips for happy travels and Johanna Lumley's Nile River adventure. |
| 0:55.2 | It's all just ahead on travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.9 | How do you keep the anxiety that comes when you plan a big trip from wearing you out before |
| 1:05.2 | you even get on the plane? |
| 1:06.9 | The host of Places to Love on Public TV Samantha Brown shares travel tips with us on today's |
| 1:12.1 | travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:14.2 | She'll help us keep the fun in our travels even when our plans start to unravel. |
| 1:19.2 | Let's start the hour with an interview that I know you'll enjoy hearing as much as I enjoyed |
| 1:23.1 | making. |
| 1:24.2 | British actress Johanna Lumley joined us a few years ago after hosting her own TV travel |
| 1:28.9 | special. |
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