808 See You in the Piazza; Lagers
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author Frances Mayes comes in from the Tuscan sun to tell us about her favorite uncrowded corners of Italy, away from the crush of the country's top tourist destinations. And a certified beer judge explains what makes lager the world's most popular style of the ubiquitous beverage.
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| 0:00.0 | Frances Mays wants you to follow her lead to the small, untouristy towns where the old world traditions of Italy are still a part of everyday life. |
| 0:09.0 | Discover some of the ways that people still live that have gotten kind of run over in contemporary life. |
| 0:15.0 | Coming up, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun reveals the small towns she's fallen in love with |
| 0:21.0 | on family road trips across Italy. |
| 0:23.6 | It just opened my eyes to how endless Italy is and how if you had like ten lifetimes |
| 0:29.8 | you could never really see all of it. |
| 0:31.9 | Dave Carpenter knows what goes into making a really good beer. |
| 0:35.5 | He helps us find classic examples of loggers, pilsners, light and dark ales |
| 0:40.3 | where they come from in Europe. |
| 0:42.3 | If you've tried a German import in the U.S., |
| 0:45.4 | and then you go to the source in Germany |
| 0:47.2 | and you try it, it's going to taste very different. |
| 0:50.9 | Explore where the backroads of Italy will take him |
| 0:52.8 | and enjoy a break with a memorable logger. |
| 0:55.8 | It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.5 | Francis Mays helps us find |
| 1:02.2 | what's new under the Tuscan sun |
| 1:04.0 | in just a minute on today's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:07.2 | She tells us about off-the-beaten track small towns |
| 1:09.8 | all over Italy |
| 1:10.9 | where playful and inventive new recipes |
| 1:13.1 | take Italian culinary traditions to a new level. |
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