Hey, I'm Rick Steves.
Now, that just was weird.
He even gave each city a new Italian name.
This town -- Castelrotto -- became... [bleh]
It was so tall that light from its fire could be seen from 30 miles out at sea.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Rick Steves wishing you...
The word comes from the Latin word for this -- a fascis.
Our journey will take us back nearly a century to learn how Europe...
After all, if you're sick you're more likely to be poor and if you're healthy you're more
able to....[imitates rooster sound]
Like church spires and minarets and...
This is the value chain... this is called the value chain...
Gaining context and perspective, we become wiser.
Using each country not as a classroom but as a destination.
The Tirol, where nature is accessible and yet so accessible.
How can such highly cultured countries like Germany and Italy have embraced...
After guiding ships from across the Mediterranean safely into port for fi-fi-fifteen centuries...
While its chaos can be exasperating...
Even in this age of unprecedented abundance
unprecedented abundance
...unprecedented abundance
unprecedented abundance...
Cairo has been a leading city in the... world of Islam.
With about 20 million people in greater Cairo, it's bursting with energy and pulsing with
vigor.
So this must have been here first and then the pill-- pyramid... built around it!
They had to design it, quarry the stones, ship them, stack them, smooth them...
I'm going to get it.
Think of the depth of the faith -- this wasn't even to be seen by the public, only for the
kings... priests... favored ones... mucky-mucks...
To know that there are places like this that embrace their traditions--[ding ding]... it
makes me want to answer the phone.
-Pay monkeys, get peanuts.
-Yeah, exactly.
[offscreen] -I think that was the opposite.
[offscreen] -Yeah!
-Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
[offscreen] -That's right.
-You want this stringy cheese...
-We don't wait, otherwise the cheese is very hot...
-I love it...
-Eat it when it's hot, otherwise it's getting bad, getting too cold...
-You shouldn't, you shouldn't make a little piece, you know...
-So we grab it like so, that's good, and then stab and pull.
[offscreen] -Stab.
-And it's time to... it's time to come... [offscreen] -Did you eat that one already?
I think so.
-Nobody home, nobody home there.
-I cannot eat!
-It's okay.
We've been making these TV meals for 20 years and I still don't know how to do it... [laughs]
This is Rick pretending to relax.
We're trying to experiment here to see if he can pull it off.
Okay, that's in the show for sure.
[laughs]
Yodeling is not from your chest, it's from your throat.
It's a very special skill.
Check this out.
[loud yodel offscreen]
It's easy.
[offscreen] Oh-hoh!
That was a good action bit!
-Love that shot.
-Oh you're in it now.
-I think I'll buy this for Virginie, is that ok?
-Ooh la la!
-This is fake or...? [laughter offscreen] -It's real!
I'm going to eat this.
[offscreen] Remember you can be a little freer with this hand.
It doesn't need to be pinned.
Okay, and I'm rolling.
Yeah baby!
Yeah it's better if you don't look at him, it's a little weird.
Looks like adoring gaze kind of thing...
This is one...
finishing one of those is like finishing two packets of cigarettes.
Sorry!
[offscreen] -I'm rolling -Imagine.
See my voice coach says you should be like that and you're saying it should be like that.
[offscreen] You got one hair sticking up weirdly.
-It is what it is.
Just what I want to hear.
[offscreen] A little too much fly away right now, I don't think we'd like that.
Thank you, Karel.
And that is why we travel.