Rick’s Summer Trip Report: Portugal and Germany
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Rick is just home from a month of guidebook research in Portugal and northern Germany - and from sardines to sauerkraut, he's eager to share his latest tips, tricks, and stories! Going beyond the great sights, this hot-out-of-the-rucksack hour will focus on the little discoveries that inspire us to intimately connect with the cultures we're sampling. If a little Portugal (Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Tomar, and Nazaré) and Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, the Luther cities, and Rothenburg) sounds interesting, be sure to join Rick for his latest trip report. And for a fun bonus, he'll cap this special episode of MNT with a few stories and pictures from his family vacation: a sailing trip with his son Andy in the San Juan Islands, just north of Seattle. #ricksteves #mondaynighttravel
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Rick, I admire your vision and how you scaled your business to fit your values. You have inspired thousands, if not millions, of intelligent entrepreneurs, and enriched even _more_ readers and viewers' lives. A business _can_ make a positive difference in the world!
Hi Rick! I think that statistically more people ARE travelling. With the internet and ease of planning and research, destinations that were once only visited by the curious who thrived off of national geographic, lonely planet guide books and word of mouth, have now become accessible to the masses, who not only want but need to travel the path most trodden. As a humble backpacker in The late 90s I’m so glad I was able to see the world through the back door at that time. Now, my partner and I always use your guide books to plan our European adventure…but we go during the shoulder or off season. Just visited Greece in April on an independent road trip following your itinerary and had a wonderful time! No crowds. Great weather. Met a group of one of your guided tours and had dinner with them…lovely folks…and had a high quality budget adventure.
Great! This is perfect 👍🏻 I’ve just bought tickets to Portugal 🇵🇹
I’ve really enjoyed Monday Night Travels 👏🏼Thank you! I’ve seen all of Rick’s shows- over and over!! It’s nice to see some of the other people in the Rick Steves company family: Gabe! Lisa! Cameron!
Thanks for the fun 🤩 inspiration and Keep on Traveling 🧳🛫🇳🇴🇬🇧🇵🇹🇮🇪❤️🍕🍷🥘🏛🌆⛲️🏰🗺🤸♂️🌎💃
We’re huge fans of the show too! Can’t wait to see you in Porto!
As an Australian who has lived in Portugal for decades, I must endorse your views on visiting other towns outside Lisboa and Porto. The cooking caseiro in rural areas has been awarded Michelin stars and the chance to show off regional cuisine. That triangle bar is a regular watering hole❤.
Loved this! He’s always so multilayered.
Thank you Rick …. For the message
… unfortunately most Americans don’t get it…..
@59:33 for anyone curious
@@sacroyalty exactly … thank you…
I know from other social media that Rick did a lot of travels through Southern Italy recently (spring 24?). I would love for Rick to do a similar show, or perhaps have a guest from Napoli, to give some updates and thoughts on this region.
Thank you, Rick. I loved this Monday Night Travel of Portugal and Germany. You have been my inspiration for travel for so many years. I started following you on PBS and finally after retirement I was able to travel to Europe in 2014. We were in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and there you were working on a tour book! What a thrill!!! We have continued to travel and try to follow your example. You mentioned the Turkish section of a German town. When we were in Nuremburg, we visited with a native and she told us about the time after WWII in Germany. They needed men (they lost so many of their men during the war), so they invited Turkish men to come to the country to help rebuild the country. Now the Turkish have a place in German life. The lady we visited with was married to a Turkish man.
Great video. Speaking out against autocracy is never a bad thing except to those who hate freedom.
It's always a pleasure to host you and share our beautiful city with one of its biggest fans.
Rick, Really enjoyed this talk. My husband and I will be on your Spain My Way and a week in Portugal this October. Been a fan since the early 90's. Thank you!
October is harvest season, so it's a great time to explore our local Market, Bolhão, and enjoy fresh, seasonal produce. Can't wait to see you around!
OMG Rick you have hair on your face!!! 😊 Looking very forward to going on our Rick Steve’s Switzerland tour starting this coming August 18th!! Our first and hopefully not our last!!! Been wanting to do one of your tours for more than 10 years!!!
@@GlobetrotterGranny that's awesome!
Your Berlin, Dresden, and Wittenberg parts of the guide were AMAZING! We saw almost no American tourists on our December trip, and we felt like we found all the "back doors" thanks to the guides. So excited they are being updated, though hard to imagine they could get better :)
Thank you for the excellent travel report, and for the sobering (but i think, much needed) piece on history and our place in the world today. I think you excel in bringing a very educational perspective, and I'm so glad to have found this channel and to be able to learn about the fascinating history and cultures of the world through your books, videos, and travels.
Thank you for speaking about climate change
Portugal is full of history, glad people are learning it. Abraço e Obrigado.
Thank you 🙏 we must approach climate change with the reality of where we are today. America could do so much and we must start now.
Wonderful!!🎉
Just returned from Portugal. Lines for going on Tram 28 were ridiculous. That too in 90 degree heat. That tram ride is interesting but not worth waiting an hour in the heat. We were able to beat crowds by going earlier in morning. Although honestly I was disappointed as it seemed to have been hyped more than necessary and I expected some dazzling views. I hated being a tourist will stick to watching Rick Steve showing us the world from the comfort of my house.
Great information
One advantage of high speed rail reservations, if you know where and when you're travelling far enough in advance, is sometimes there are significant discounts available.
Nice destinations but I hope that Rick Steves once in future also covers Lithuania, Riga and Slovakia as European hidden gems and also Russia (very rich with history and art and it is in Europe, can be done like Iran) when it is more accessible again. I recommend destinations Trakai Castle, Hill of Crosses, Curonian Spit with Nida Dunes, Vilnius, Riga, High Tatras (Lomnicky Štit and Štrbske Pleso), Čičmany, Bojnice Castle, Košice, Trenčin, Bratislava, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kizhi Pogost and maybe Golden Ring of Russia.
This is the best Rick Steve conversation, I have experienced! You tought us all today with the real world History from the past and present! You should run for President of the USA❤
Don’t understand the comment about paper train reservations in Portugal. As far back as 2021, I made my reservations and payments via the Comboios de Portugal app and only had to show the reservation and passport to the conductor. I’ll grant you, it wasn’t easy to navigate if you didn’t speak Portuguese, and the payments page had minuscule text that made it hard to manage, but it worked just fine.
Rick you should talk about the drastic demographic change that’s going on in Europe. Every person you showed in Portugal was Brazilian. I don’t think people realize how many Brazilian and Indian immigrants there are in Portugal now. The numbers are crazy . Over 1 million (legal) Brazilians and hundreds of thousands of Indians mostly illegal . It’s strange to visit the country of my ancestors and not see many direct descendants of my ancestors. And this is happening all over Europe but Portugal is a country of roughly 11 million people and the changes are very visible .
Information here is incorrect. The Maritime Circle Line harbour tour in Hamburg is in English and German.
Hi Rick, we are in Hamburg right now. It is a very beautiful city but it is a pity they don't seem to care at all for international tourism.
Barcelona is going to abolish air bnb's.
Now that other towns in Portugal have been mentioned alas they will be run over by hordes of tourists too. Current day tourism has made all the nice places in the world into Disney land. It just feels wrong and their needs to be some regulation of this sort of tourism. In todays world we don’t need to travel to a place to find out about the local history. If one is running from one museum to another over the span of few days there is only so much you are going to remember even a few days later.
Thank you for speaking out against facsim and ignorance here in our country and throughout the world. I only wish the MAGA people could hear you but I doubt they are on your channel. This was a multi layered vlog. I hope to make it to Portugal. I may have to leave my home and be an immigrant in Europe. I did love Berlin when I visited.
Something pretty important - Hitler actually did not win fair and square, it is widely recognized that the elections were not fair due to involvement of various right-wing armed militia groups. 1:40:00 ish
First comment wohoo
Blackrock, vanguard, statestreet is the ones driving many of your issues. The are overly a big percentage in all that is owned across the USA and others. Monopolize over the percentage.
I usually enjoy the content of your videos. However, you lost me at the 51 minute mark by going into a political sphere. It is ironic that you advocate travel, which, to reach these destinations requires flights, which sir, do not run on fairy dust, and have provided you a very good living for years. Your strength is in your travel wisdom, sorry you have chose to take this elsewhere.
It is a bit hypocritical.
It was disappointing to find that Steeves has to pontificate on his far-left political views. Stick to travel, please.
@@albertstepulevage8217far left? Anything to the left of fascism-trumpism is now far left?
I don't understand your point. He has made money through travel and now he should not talk about politics when it is directly related to his travels (museums about history)?
Rick Steves literally has a book called How to travel as a political act. How long have you been listening?
Climate change, i notice you didn't talk about China, India, or many other countries. The climate always changes throughout time. Yes, i want clean water and air, but im not trying to throw it down people faces. Educate if you like, but don't push Climate change when you only want to talk about the USA.
Rick is my travel hero and my political anti-hero. Bummer.
When you talk about Germany, in a way, i was thinking you are talking about the corporations controlling the media and trying to push the agenda or promote their propaganda. So sad how both parties have rules to keep certain people out. When it comes to federal elections, any parties should have to follow the rules set by the people since this is a federal issue and not a parties issues.
I applaud Rick's brave call for the USA to do something about carbon emissions. Since there are over 11 million Americans visiting Europe each year (requiring around 100,000 round trip trans-Atlantic flights) perhaps he will call for a stop to such mass tourism, and also stop promoting such travel with his books, tv shows and guided tours.
Stick to the travel info. Gstes is a liberal not a conservative.
Rick… get a neuro exam, shave and move in with Joe Biden… you have lost it.