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Travel with Rick Steves

713 The Way of Saint James; Rewilding Europe

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

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

4.32.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Actors Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez relive their experience filming a movie about walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and describe how a pilgrimage hike with strangers can be an effective antidote to years of pandemic isolation. Plus ecologist and filmmaker Chris Morgan tells us about recent successes in reintroducing certain wildlife species to wilderness areas in Europe.

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0:00.0

As we start to venture out into the world and get beyond our pandemic isolation,

0:05.0

the people who walk the long Camino di Santiago in Spain find that even if you try,

0:10.0

you're never alone for long.

0:12.0

The sign of growth, I think, is to allow yourself to be disarmed.

0:16.0

Coming up, actor Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez

0:20.0

tell us why they made a movie about walking the medieval pilgrim route across Spain.

0:25.0

It's not just about that. It's a retelling of the Wizard of Oz.

0:28.0

From my own part, I've never done a project that I have been more inspired by or more comfortable with.

0:37.0

And conservation ecologist Chris Morgan explains how climate change has pressured people in Europe

0:42.0

to reintroduce wildlife in remote habitats.

0:45.0

If we don't have a healthy ecosystem in terms of the planet itself,

0:48.0

humans are going to suffer. Our days are numbered if we don't,

0:51.0

if we don't get smart very quickly.

0:53.0

Come with us for the hour ahead. It's travel with Rick Steves.

0:58.0

Just a few years ago, a wild cat known as the Iberian Lynx was in danger of going extinct.

1:08.0

But recent conservation efforts have helped its population rebound in southern Spain.

1:13.0

In just a bit, Chris Morgan highlights some of the rewilding success stories going on in Europe

1:18.0

and why they're good news for all of us.

1:20.0

For the last thousand years in northern Spain, countless people have journeyed by foot on a 500 mile pilgrim trail.

1:27.0

Their destination, the cathedral at Santiago de Campostela,

1:31.0

where the remains of James the Apostle are said to be buried.

1:34.0

Santiago is also the capital of Galicia, where Ramón and Antonio Herrado Esteves' father emigrated to the U.S. from.

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