812 What's New in Venice; The Senior Nomads Come Home; Food Tours in Europe
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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One of Rick's favorite Venice tour guides lets us in on changes afoot in Italy's city of dreams. Then the tireless Senior Nomads share lessons from a dozen years on the road as they unpack their suitcases and settle down for good. And a gastronomic guide invites us to dig into the best bites from across the continent.
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| 0:00.0 | An Italian tour guide wants you to wander away from the tourist crowds when you're in Venice. |
| 0:06.2 | Don't forget, it's an island. You cannot get that lost. |
| 0:09.7 | Or you can sell your home and travel the world. |
| 0:12.3 | Michael and Debbie Campbell thought it would be a great way to enjoy retirement. |
| 0:16.3 | They share what they learned for the past 12 years in case you'd like to give it a try. |
| 0:21.0 | Plan, but don't overplan and allow room for serendipity. |
| 0:25.4 | Well, we had to learn to treasure experiences over possessions. That is the key to our success. |
| 0:31.2 | After he explored the world for a few years, Philadelphia and Kenny Dunn went back to |
| 0:35.4 | Europe to start some of its first neighborhood food tours. |
| 0:38.9 | He wants you to sample some rare treats next time you're in Paris. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm going to introduce you to something which is the marriage of a croissant and an eclair. |
| 0:48.0 | Take a food tour, hear what's new in Venice, and the senior nomads come home. |
| 0:52.6 | It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.1 | Find out what's new that visitors in Venice need to know in just a minute. |
| 1:04.0 | And in just a bit, the senior nomads return to share what they've learned from 12 years of living around the world |
| 1:09.9 | and to let us know they've |
| 1:11.7 | come home. And a founder of a network of local food tours across Europe tells us some of his |
| 1:16.8 | favorite treats you can look for in cities from Amsterdam to Athens. That's all coming up in the |
| 1:21.9 | hour ahead on today's Travel with Rick Steves. The great city of Venice, for centuries, the hub of a vast trading empire and a European |
| 1:29.6 | superpower, was founded way back when Rome was falling, and it was, just grew up in the |
| 1:35.3 | middle of a vast lagoon. |
| 1:37.1 | The idea was to escape the chaos of the power vacuum created by the end of the ancient |
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