Rick Steves
American travel writer and broadcaster. Runs Rick Steves' Europe and writes the guidebooks, packing advice and travel-tip articles published on ricksteves.com.
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Their wordsEurope is a safe place. It has very little violent crime - but there's plenty of petty purse snatching and pickpocketing.
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Their wordsEuropean thieves target Americans - we're the ones with all the goodies in our day bags, wallets, and purses.
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsPeople focus on saving money while forgetting that their time is an equally valuable and limited resource. It's worth paying for museum admission rather than going on a free day and suffering through slow lines and crowds. If a taxi costs you and your partner $5 more than two bus tickets, it's worth the 20 minutes saved.
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Their wordsI may be biased, but an up-to-date guidebook is a $20 tool for a $4,000 experience - and justifies its expense on the first ride to your hotel from the airport.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThe great value of travel is the opportunity it offers you to pry open your hometown blinders and broaden your perspective.
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Their wordsThink about how all societies are on parallel evolutionary tracks.
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Their wordsLive your life as if it shapes the world and the future - because it does.
- 19 months earlier
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Their wordsBut tourists or popular tourist centers have never been targeted.
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Their wordsWhile there are still problems to be worked out, no angry group is angry at tourists.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsEuropeans often judge American food based on their own cuisine, such as this plate of Italian specialties.
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsBut millions of globetrotters - who see exploring our world as a way of life - will find a way to keep on traveling.
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Their wordsAmericans get the shortest vacations in the industrial world.
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Their wordsYet regardless of the soaring cost of living, Europeans remain experts at living well.
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Their wordsLondon, York, Bath, and Edinburgh are the most interesting cities in Britain.
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Their wordsTune out the hype around Ireland's Blarney Stone (slobbered on by countless tourists to get the "gift of gab"), Spain's Costa del Sol resorts, and the French Riviera in July and August. These are among Europe's most overrated spots.