Rick Steves is the slightly rumpled and comfortably nerdy host of Europe Through the Back Door, a travel series seen regularly on PBS television stations. He also has a great website, and markets very well-written and useful books about touring Europe as well as his own brand of travel gear. His company runs tours of Europe, designed according to his own theory of European travel--no less than two nights in any location, eating with the locals, and lots of walking.
My daughter and I met a number of travellers seeing Portugal on a Rick Steves tour when we were there in 2002, and they were a happy and very diverse group. If I ever do a European tour, I'd certainly put Rick Steve's tours at the top of my list.
Anyway, Rick Steves is now blogging. He's currently touring several European countries and is posting dispatches from the field. As in the fields of Austria, Spain or Scandinavia. Great way to make a living, huh?
Link courstesy of Sites and Soundbytes.
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