811 Slavic Europe; Running with the Bulls; Checking In
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Guidebook researcher Cameron Hewitt opens our eyes to the history, nature, and genuine welcome that await travelers venturing to the Slavic nations of central and eastern Europe. Then a tour guide from Switzerland explains what compels him to run with the bulls in Pamplona each summer, as he's done for five decades. And listeners chat with Rick about their latest European travel discoveries.
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| 0:00.0 | Take a closer look at the remarkable variety of cultures you'll find among the Slavic nations of Europe. |
| 0:06.5 | The Czechs and the Poles and the Croatians are every bit as different as the Italians and the French and the Spanish. |
| 0:11.7 | Coming up, Cameron Hewitt tells us why he's fallen in love with the people and customs of Slavic Europe. |
| 0:17.0 | And the more you take an effort to learn and understand that depth and talk to local people and hear their stories, |
| 0:22.2 | the more this region becomes just absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:25.2 | Tony Lewis has been taking part in a cultural festival in Spain for the last 50 years. |
| 0:30.0 | He explains how the week-long Sanframine Festival in Pomplona |
| 0:33.4 | generates a palpable rush when it's time each morning for the running of the bowls. |
| 0:38.5 | And you've never imagined |
| 0:40.8 | the energy any place in the world |
| 0:43.8 | like it is at that moment in Pamplona. |
| 0:46.3 | Plus, we'll check in with listeners |
| 0:47.8 | to hear how their European travels |
| 0:49.5 | are working out. |
| 0:50.9 | Come with us for the hour ahead. |
| 0:52.3 | It's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you. working out. Come with us for the hour ahead. It's Travel with Rick Steves. He's been running with the Bulls for the last 50 years. Coming up, Tony Lewis tells us what takes him back |
| 1:07.2 | year after year to join in as a mozo at the annual festival in Pompulona, Spain. |
| 1:12.4 | And we'll check in with listeners with travel reports and questions for their latest adventures |
| 1:16.9 | in Europe. That's all in the hour ahead. Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves with a look |
| 1:21.4 | at what you can discover in the Slavic nations of central and eastern Europe. To better understand |
| 1:26.7 | Europe, I find that it helps to start |
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