Podcast Episodes
Back to Search503a The Nez Perce War; American Nomads
How much are we a product of our nation's history? Learn about the struggles between Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and US General Oliver Otis Howard …
6 years, 3 months ago
583 Provence; Germany This Year; Gdańsk
We commemorate the big anniversaries in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth of the Bauhaus art movement. We'll also hear how Poland…
6 years, 4 months ago
582 Istria; Wee County Louth; Tides
Tour guides discuss two of Europe's scenic and less-crowded peninsulas: Croatia's Istrian Peninsula and Ireland's Cooley Peninsula. Then a marine con…
6 years, 4 months ago
581 Recoleta Cemetery; Spooky Atlas Obscura; Near the Exit
Just in time for Halloween and Day of the Dead, meet some of the famous residents of Buenos Aires' Recoleta Cemetery. Then take an armchair expeditio…
6 years, 4 months ago
461a Dracula's Romania; Discriminating London Guide; Travel Kindnesses
Find out about the ruthless 15th-century prince behind the Dracula legend, still a major source of tourism for Romania. Then get introduced to some o…
6 years, 4 months ago
580 Villages of Tuscany; Megafauna
American-born tour guides who've settled in Tuscany tell us why it's an ideal region for experiencing the essence of Italy. And the curator of mammal…
6 years, 5 months ago
579 Kerouac's Firewatch; Erosion; USA National Parks
British travel writer Dan Richards describes his hike to the remote post in Washington's North Cascades where Jack Kerouac spent two months as a fire…
6 years, 5 months ago
490a Travel Tech; Story of China; Take Your Child to Europe
Historian Michael Wood discusses how Westerners might better understand China, the world's new superpower, by learning more about its monumental achi…
6 years, 5 months ago
578 Walking Ljubljana; Munich and Bavaria; Wild Animals
The co-author of Rick's Eastern Europe guidebook and a Ljubljana-based tour guide discuss the laid-back charms of Slovenia's capital. Then a tour gui…
6 years, 5 months ago
577 Magellan 500; Mexico City Neighborhoods; Ask Rick
Find out why Portugal isn't jumping on the Magellan 500th-anniversary bandwagon like their neighbors in Spain are. Then, guidebook author Julie Meade…
6 years, 6 months ago