696a For the Love of Guidebooks; The Gulf; Greatest Art in Europe

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Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Europe brims with world-class art, and we contemplate some of the continent's truly outstanding paintings, sculptures, and historic edifices. Then we learn about the historic and ecological importance of the Gulf of Mexico from a professor in neighboring Florida. And we consider the humble guidebook and what its pages can tell us, both in the moment and long after the trip is done.

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0:00.0	What good is an old outdated guidebook?
0:03.0	For Peter Fines, it's an entryway into another world.
0:06.0	It's partly the maps.
0:08.0	It's the detail.
0:09.0	It's also thrilling to unfurl a map from a 1923 blue guide to London.
0:14.0	The former publisher of Time Out points out that travel guides have been around since ancient Greece.
0:19.0	Jack Davis grew up along the Gulf Coast of Florida.
0:22.6	He suggests we rethink how we're treating the Gulf of Mexico.
0:26.6	Knowing the Gulf intimately, I knew the Gulf was more than just this oil supplier
0:31.6	or this hurricane alley as it is often portrayed.
0:35.6	And when you get a chance to visit the great art of the world,
0:38.7	allow yourself the time for a close look.
0:41.4	The surrealism of painters like Dali and Magritte
0:44.0	can come alive for you when you let it.
0:46.2	You have to make the connections
0:47.7	and find your own meaning between these randomly placed symbols.
0:52.9	There's a lot to explore in the hour ahead.
0:55.1	Come on, it's Travel with Rick Steves.
1:00.2	We're swapping tales about our love of guidebooks
1:02.7	and their impacts on our lives.
1:05.1	Meet the former publisher of Time Out
1:06.8	in just a minute on today's Travel with Rick Steves.
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