What was day-to-day life like in the ancient Roman world?

The director of the archaeological park at Pompeii

tells us that recent excavations from the doomed city

are shedding new light on how women lived in the first century.

It's a way of exploring the part of history

that often has been marginalized and forgotten.

Experience timeless beauty without the crowds on dozens of lesser-known islands in Greece scattered across the Aegean.

A guide from Athens describes his favorites.

You can imagine the reflection of the pine trees down to the sea.

It creates the styrquoise water.

And get an insider view on some of the quirkier things about Ireland.

I think everywhere is equally weird around the world.

It just takes being able to stand back

and see what you've gotten too used to

when you're in the place.

The women of Pompeii, the smaller Greek islands,

and the folk customs and superstitions of Ireland.

It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

Thank you. of Ireland. It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. Most tourists to the Greek islands only go to a handful of places. A Greek tour guide joins

us in a bit to recommend many of his favorite smaller, uncrowded islands, where you can find

the laid-back simplicity of an earlier era under the Aegean sun.

And a young writer from the middle of Ireland's drive-over country shares a few of the

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