788 Spain by Train; Foreign Correspondent; The Lines on Our Maps

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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hear from tour guides about Spain's robust high-speed rail network and all the places it can take you. Then hit the road vicariously with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof for a taste of life as a foreign correspondent. And take a closer look at the surprising and fascinating ways in which borders have shaped our world.

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0:00.0	It's a big place, but Spain has set up a modern rail network that can get you quickly into nearly
0:07.0	all corners of that country. Coming up, guides from Spain tip us off on how to enjoy
0:12.0	traveling on the Spanish rail system.
0:14.0	There's just something really magical about watching the Spanish countryside going by while
0:19.0	you're having a glass of Rioja.
0:20.0	New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph started out reporting from a number of hot spots
0:24.6	around the world. He tells us what it takes to work as a foreign correspondent in the world's
0:29.6	conflict zones. Security is something I take very seriously, partly because I've lost
0:34.6	too many friends along the way. And lately, British journalist John Ellage
0:39.3	has been examining the often surprising stories
0:41.3	behind today's national borders.
0:43.4	They weren't necessarily the hard lines we imagined them to be now.
0:47.0	They were more likely to be to the fuzzy no-man's lands
0:49.6	where imperial control gradually peters out.
0:52.4	It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. Come along.
1:00.3	The lines on a map can change the lives of the people who live on either side of them. Coming up
1:05.2	today on Travel with Rick Steves, we examine how colonial-era border drawing by European politicians
1:10.2	came with lasting consequences.
1:13.3	And Nicholas Christoph tells us what it was like to report from overseas conflict zones,
1:17.9	where your job as a foreign correspondent includes just managing to stay alive.
1:22.7	But first, let's hear how the advances in rail lines in Spain are making it easier than ever
1:27.4	to explore
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