Travel with Rick Steves
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
774 Spectacular Landscapes; Four Points of the Compass; What's in a Name?
52 minutes Posted Nov 30, 2024 at 12:00 am.
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A tour guide from England's scenic Lake District recommends two areas — in Switzerland and Iceland — offering even more stunning landscapes to explore. Then a historian invites us to reconsider how we orient ourselves in time and space as he shares insights he's gained from exploring how we arrived at our modern sense of direction. And a former NPR correspondent discusses what happens when a place gets a new name, and how an altered identity can transform the place itself.