You might need to update how you think about different countries that we used to group together as Eastern Europe.

There is a roots in the history that go beyond the Iron Curtain that go beyond the Warsaw Pact.

Coming up, Jacob Mikkenowski explains how much has changed. that being this other separate place that's kind of evaporated.

Welsh may be a famously difficult language to learn but it has some clever words that can

explain the kind of feelings that might require a whole sentence to describe in English.

A sense that you have, that you feel at home in a place

though you've never been there before.

Pamela Petro tells us how her first time in Wales, and a word the Welsh use made her feel right at home.

To be in the present moment but longing for something beyond it.

Say goodbye to Eastern Europe and Borodah to the Welsh and the hour ahead.

It's travel with Rick Steve's.

It turned into a lifelong love affair with the nation of Wales.

When Pamela Petro went there for summer studies, she felt right at home,

and she was charmed by words the Welsh shoes to describe emotions that English requires a little more effort to describe.

She shows us a side of Wales that might steal your heart too in the hour ahead.

Let's start today's travel with Rick Steve's looking at how much

the former Eastern Bloc of European nations have changed since their communist

governments fell apart. The term Eastern Europe has historically been used to lump together a massive complex and diverse area

ranging from Germany to Russia and from Estonia to Albania.

But Eastern Europe as an idea is quickly fading and changing.

Even I've made the decision to shift the names of my guidebooks and my bus tours of this region from

Eastern Europe to Central Europe.

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