Rick Steve's Europe

Maybe this is just a follow-up to the post I wrote about History Detectives the other day, but PBS is doing such a great job that I didn't want to leave this gem of a show untouched.

I only started watching Create about a year ago or so, and although the quality of the programming is great, some of it is not my style. I can only watch so many cooking and craft shows before I just want to turn it off, but some of the travel shows really caught my attention. Rick Steve's Europe is at the top of that list by far in my book.

Rick travels around Europe and writes guidebooks and shoots travel shows. I hope this comes out as the compliment I mean it to be, but watching his show is almost like taking a thirty minutes vacation itself.

Rick travels all over the continent to various countries, all of which he makes sound so interesting and like a place I would want to go. He does things like hire local guides to make his stay more enjoyable and goes to little out of the way places, away from the massive throngs of tourists while still managing to hit all the famous sites.

So far I think some of my favorite shows were ones about Bavaria, Prague and Iran. Yes, he even traveled to Iran for his show, and it was a very interesting country. In Prague, just about everything looked fun, especially the art nouveau museum and the music. Bavaria looked like a place to spend a good time in, and I'm sure I'd enjoy all the food and music there too.

Steve points out many of the conveniences of traveling in Europe, one of which is trains. It seems to me that there is a train to just about anywhere you want to go in Europe, and kinda makes me sad it isn't that way here in America.