It's easy to time travel in the old world. In England, the ancient Romans left a vast and practical legacy.

They went about building roads, the Romans, so they built, get this, 10,000 miles of roads in Britain.

Wander around Turkey, and you'll stumble onto evidence of one ancient civilization after another.

The powerful Ottoman Empire built some of the grandest buildings in Istanbul,

including an ornate palace that just about bankrupted them.

It's spectacular, back-correct crystal staircases, largest crystal chandeliers of the world,

biggest hand-woven carpets of the world.

And a Palestinian from Jerusalem tells us how he got beyond anger to work at breaking down the walls that divide us.

Us is really whoever is willing to work for peace, for justice, for coexistence,

and them is the people we're trying to convince to join us.

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

The news these days can get you down as we hear of new conflicts arising and old ones that keep burning around the world.

Coming up on today's Travel with Rick Steves, a Palestinian Muslim from Jerusalem suggests that crossing borders might be our best chance for peace.

It's an important here in Turkey as they celebrate the centennial of the Turkish Republic which replaced six centuries of rule by Ottoman monarchs.

We'll look for evidence of Ottoman Turkey in just a bit.

Let's start the hour searching for signs of Roman rule in England as far back as the first century AD.

Lorraine Deneen guides visitors across the English countryside, sometimes to places that time seems to have forgotten.

Hi Lorraine.

It's great to be here.

So you're a guide in England, what part of England are you from?

I live in the Cotswolds.

Now that's Gloucestershire isn't it?

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