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What books and movies made your trip better?

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Rick Steves Featured on Podcast This is Love!	amber.spiers	0	08/25/25 02:58 PM
Hundred Years War. What should I read?	TH	7	08/24/25 02:58 PM
Happy 150th Birthday to Peleș Castle, Romania's summer palace	avirosemail	8	08/24/25 12:42 PM
It is a new book	gregglamarsh	19	08/07/25 11:23 AM
Happy 175th birthday to Guy de Maupassant	avirosemail	0	08/05/25 06:39 PM
Aboard The Royal Scotsman with Alan Cumming	Rachel	7	08/04/25 12:07 PM
The New Dig Episode 4 to premier August 6	Sandancisco	2	08/03/25 03:57 PM
photo exhibition of Barcelona under Franco	avirosemail	0	08/02/25 06:00 AM
Business Insider Article on Lonely Planet Guidebooks	NYC Librarian	19	07/31/25 09:20 PM
Erfurt Latrine Disaster anniversary swirls back around	avirosemail	1	07/25/25 06:11 AM
Taking the Risk	gregglamarsh	1	07/21/25 03:35 PM
Happy 831st Birthday to Clare of Assisi, patron saint of television	avirosemail	10	07/18/25 12:49 AM
A Swedish diplomat, Budapest, and the Holocaust	Dave	11	07/06/25 03:43 PM
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Romania	Judy B ✈️🧳🐈	12	07/05/25 02:29 PM
165th Anniversary of Oxford Great Debate on evolution	avirosemail	2	07/01/25 10:22 PM
Rick and Homer	Barbara	7	06/07/25 09:09 PM
Basque cultural center and museum in Boise, Idaho	avirosemail	3	05/28/25 12:28 AM
Tucci's back	phred	4	05/15/25 07:01 AM
Saving Venice - CNN 5/11 at 8 pm ET	Valerie	1	05/14/25 08:46 PM
If you like Doc Martin	phred	12	05/11/25 07:51 PM
Pocket guides vs books by country	jennifern35	5	05/10/25 10:27 AM
498th Anniversary of the end of the Renaissance (yet another sack of Rome)	avirosemail	1	05/06/25 07:03 PM
Mozart TV shows on NOVA or PBS, etc ?	tripletblessings	3	05/05/25 09:59 PM
On the Hippie Trail - walloping your own travel norms	CWsocial	8	04/08/25 02:15 PM
AIA Lecture Weds free online with reg; Art of Luxury in Alexandria	avirosemail	1	03/25/25 02:09 AM
500th Anniversary of the German Peasants Revolt	avirosemail	8	03/11/25 02:12 AM
Pickpocket parody	avirosemail	7	03/10/25 05:11 AM
A Real Pain	BigMikeWestBy...	25	03/04/25 02:23 PM
The Rick Steves guide to life	Mardee	0	02/21/25 03:25 PM
Rick's new book, “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel...	Mardee	13	02/20/25 07:11 PM
The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel by Paige McClanahan	Mary	1	02/20/25 03:03 PM
The French Ingredient	khrystia	12	02/07/25 04:27 PM
Happy Electrifying 250th Birthday to André-Marie Ampère	avirosemail	5	02/02/25 09:19 PM
Impossible City:Paris in the Twenty-First Century	CorrieTen	1	01/11/25 12:20 AM
talk next week on Schengen Area origin, implications	avirosemail	0	01/07/25 09:18 PM
new book on Renaissance Florence focuses on women's lives	avirosemail	1	01/01/25 03:59 PM
FYI—No Rick Steves’ Europe Page-A-Day Calendar for 2025	Carrie	17	12/30/24 04:30 PM
Cezanne Painting Sainte-Victoire short documentary	avirosemail	4	12/30/24 04:31 AM
Happy 145th Birthday to Paul Klee	avirosemail	1	12/18/24 10:01 PM
Beatles 64 Documentary	BigMikeWestBy...	12	12/12/24 11:07 PM
Murder in the Castle A Miss Merkel Mystery Book	heather	5	11/23/24 07:59 PM
Ted Lasso and Wrexham	gregbrady1879	16	11/14/24 07:04 PM
BBC's Race Across the World	Andrea	8	11/10/24 05:00 PM
Heritage tourism talk this Friday 08 Nov on marrano sites in Portugal	avirosemail	2	11/09/24 06:40 AM
More pasta on TV	phred	6	11/07/24 02:37 AM
235th Anniversary of the Paris womens' revolution	avirosemail	1	10/06/24 11:22 AM
Sicily Books Free to a Good Home	Laurie Ann	2	10/02/24 03:18 PM
Vanity Fair on Prime	bostonphil7	3	08/29/24 05:41 PM
Legend of El Cid	bostonphil7	3	08/23/24 03:31 PM
Contemporary German history	avirosemail	6	08/19/24 07:05 PM