806 Swedish-Norwegian Cousins; The London Tube; Czech Castles
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Get an inside look at the (mostly) friendly rivalries of Scandinavia as a pair of tour guides from Sweden and Norway sit down for a chat. Then hear from a London Blue Badge guide about what to know — and love — about London's famous underground metro system. And listen in as we explore the grand castles of the Czech Republic.
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| 0:00.0 | People in some countries are just not flag wavers. |
| 0:03.0 | A swede doesn't waive the flag. |
| 0:06.0 | While it's just the opposite for their cousins in Norway. |
| 0:09.0 | I would be looked weird upon if I didn't have a flag. |
| 0:12.0 | Coming up, we'll hear how Nordic neighbors in Sweden and Norway |
| 0:15.0 | tend to view one another. |
| 0:17.0 | When in London, you'll soon discover that the city's labyrinth |
| 0:20.0 | of underground subway lines is usually the quickest way to get around town. |
| 0:24.2 | It's one of the unique features of London, really, that there are so many of these main line train stations. |
| 0:29.9 | We'll hear why Londoners love the two. While in the Czech Republic, the countryside is peppered with more than a thousand castles. |
| 0:37.5 | Czech guides help us choose which of their favorites are worth a visit. |
| 0:40.9 | The Baroque theater is pretty unique. They have all this equipment from the 1700s still |
| 0:45.4 | capped. The mostly friendly rivalry between Nordic cousins, loving the tube as you whisked yourself |
| 0:51.0 | around London, and the castles of Chequille. It's just ahead on Travel |
| 0:55.1 | with Rick Steves. When it opened in 1863 as the Metropolitan Railway, London became home to the |
| 1:05.0 | world's first underground passenger rail system. Today, what's commonly called the tube is the fastest |
| 1:10.4 | and most efficient way to get around town. |
| 1:12.6 | In just a bit, we'll hear why Londoners just love taking the tube. |
| 1:17.6 | And guides from the Czech Republic recommend some of their favorite castles you can visit |
| 1:21.6 | out of the more than a thousand choices their country offers. |
| 1:24.6 | Let's start the hour with a bit of Scandinavian ribbing among national cousins |
| 1:28.6 | in Sweden and Norway. A Swede and a Norwegian walk into a bar. How the joke ends, depends on |
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