745 Orkney Living; Walkable European Cities; Nomads of Europe
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.3 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Hear what it's like to live on one of the windswept Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland, where people have lived since before recorded history. Then learn how redesigned traffic patterns in Europe have had a positive impact on quality of life — and get ideas for making your own city a more enjoyable place to be outdoors. Plus, a historian examines the underappreciated role of nomadic societies and their struggles in the modern world.
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| 0:00.0 | What's not to like about a lightly populated group of rugged islands off the northern tip of Scotland? |
| 0:06.0 | Well, just be prepared for the weather to get your attention. |
| 0:10.0 | If you like wild weather and biblical type of rain and storms, then Orny is a place for you. |
| 0:16.0 | Kinlay Francis tells us what he loves about living in Orkney. |
| 0:20.0 | Urban planner Jeff Speck suggests that designing a city should be a lot like designing a home. |
| 0:25.0 | It's meant to be for people. |
| 0:27.0 | We like to make our streets as outdoor living rooms. |
| 0:29.0 | What does that mean? |
| 0:30.0 | It means they have good edges. |
| 0:32.0 | It means they really hold you comfortably. |
| 0:34.0 | Coming up he explains how some cities are becoming better places to walk by making |
| 0:38.6 | motorists share space with everybody else. Or just keep on walking. Historian Anthony Satin reminds |
| 0:46.1 | us how no man's have shaped our world for centuries. The one constant is that they |
| 0:50.9 | keep on doing what they've always done and that is moving around. |
| 0:54.2 | Come along for the hour ahead. |
| 0:55.6 | It's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:01.1 | What kind of world do you want to live in? |
| 1:03.0 | In just a bit, a city planner tells us what he's been learning from cities in Europe that can help make American cities more enjoyable places to walk around and explore. |
| 1:12.0 | We'll also look at how nomads from long ago shaped the world |
| 1:15.0 | we live in today and the challenges that nomadic communities are still tackling. Let's |
| 1:20.3 | start the hour in a part of Scotland that lies beyond the usual tourist routes. |
| 1:25.0 | A few years ago, I was heading to Edinburgh for perhaps the 20th time to update the Edinburgh chapter in my Scotland |
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