813 20th-Century France; Finest Hotel in Kabul; Photogenic Scotland
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Historian Colin Jones has managed to distill centuries of French history into just 250 pages, and he leads us through significant sights from the mighty nation's recent past. Then a veteran BBC correspondent recalls turbulent times in 1980s Afghanistan and the hotel that still stands as a symbol of the country's resilient people. And a photographer from Scotland's Hebrides describes his ongoing quest to capture the moods, light, and breathtaking beauty of his homeland.
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| 0:00.0 | Lee Doucette has been reporting from trouble spots around the world since the 1980s. |
| 0:06.9 | Coming up, the BBC's chief international correspondent tells us how one hotel in Kabul |
| 0:11.9 | helped her get to know the people of Afghanistan and learn how much they've gone through. |
| 0:17.1 | In a country where so much has been lost, their deeply ingrained sense of hospitality still remains. |
| 0:23.8 | Next time you're in Paris, historian Cullen Jones |
| 0:26.1 | suggests you look at how its monuments form a straight line, |
| 0:29.5 | from the Louvre all the way to La Depence. |
| 0:32.1 | It's like a sort of skewer through French history |
| 0:35.2 | with enormously rich, juicy morsels of French history all the way strung |
| 0:39.3 | along it. And a nature photographer |
| 0:41.5 | from the Outer Hebrides shares |
| 0:43.3 | tips for capturing the impressive scenery |
| 0:45.2 | you'll find in Scotland. |
| 0:46.8 | You get these incredible shades of light that come from the heavens |
| 0:49.5 | as if it's just pinpointing. Little |
| 0:51.4 | things for you to look at, we call them the silver |
| 0:53.5 | jewels of the earth. Come along. It's Travel withing. Little things we look at. We call them the silver jewels of the earth. |
| 0:55.2 | Come along. |
| 0:56.1 | It's Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:01.1 | It promised to bring modern sophistication |
| 1:03.9 | to Afghanistan when the Intercontinental |
| 1:06.5 | opened as the first luxury hotel in Kabul |
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