US EditionRick Steves’ Europe: Uplifting encounters from my latest trip
- Rick Steves just returned from his first of four European trips planned for 2025, traveling across several cities including Istanbul and Rome.
- He undertook the trip amid global fear and misunderstanding, believing travel remains important to bridge divides and offer fresh perspectives.
- During this journey, encounters with a Turkish fisherman, a Roman Catholic priest, and a university student highlighted serendipitous connections and shared human experiences despite different backgrounds.
- The fisherman invited Steves to fish from Istanbul's Galata Bridge, the priest helped him appreciate a centuries-old Mary portrait, and the student dared him to sit on Rome's Spanish Steps despite police restrictions.
- These joyful meetings reinforced Steves’s view that travel teaches about our shared humanity and echoes Winston Churchill’s quote that democracy is flawed but better than alternatives.
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Rick Steves’ Europe: Uplifting encounters from my latest trip
“A fisherman, a priest, and a student” sounds like the beginning of a crude joke. But on my latest trip to Europe, these three characters weren’t punchlines. Instead, they were reminders of the value of travel, and examples of the…
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