For the love of Europe My favorite places, people and stories
Book - 2020
Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100 of the best stories published throughout his career. Covering his adventures through England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, these are stories only Rick Steves could tell.
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Berkeley, CA :
Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group
[2020]
- Language
- English
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- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- vii, 399 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781641711319
- Introduction
- 1. Falling in Love with Europe
- Portugal and Spain
- 2. Fado: The Lisbon Blues
- 3. Seaside Traditions in Portugal's Nazaré
- 4. Esperanza in Évora
- 5. Portugal's Sunny Salema
- 6. Arcos de la Frontera: Pickles, Nuns, and Donkeys in the Bell Tower
- 7. Strolling Cordoba's Back Streets
- 8. Hair-Trigger Flamenco in Andalucía
- 9. Madrid: Two Bulls is Plenty
- 10. Pamplona: Feeling the Breath of the Bull on Your Pants
- 11. The Camino de Santiago: A Medieval Pilgrimage in Modern Times
- 12. Tantalizing Tangier
- France
- 13. Fine Living at a Paris Market
- 14. Champs-Elysées: The Parisian Promenade
- 15. St. Sulpice: The Grand Organ of Paris
- 16. Alsace and Colmar: France and Germany Mix It Up
- 17. Well-Fed Geese in the Dordogne
- 18. Escargot and the Beauty of Terroir
- 19. The French Restaurant: A Spa for Your Taste Buds
- Britain and Ireland
- 20. London: Beachcombing Through History
- 21. Westminster Abbey: The National Soul of England
- 22. The Queen's English
- 23. Bath: England's Cover Girl
- 24. The Cotswolds: Thatched Kingdom of Quaint
- 25. England's Lake District: Land of Great Hikes and Poets
- 26. York: Vikings, Bygone Days, and England's Top Church
- 27. Blackpool: Britain's Coney Island
- 28. Mysterious Britain
- 29. Ireland's Dingle Peninsula: The Next Parish Over is Boston
- Belgium and the Netherlands
- 30. Bruges: Pickled in Gothic
- 31. Flabbergasted in a Haarlem B&B
- 32. Going Dutch... in Holland's Polder Country
- 33. Pedaling Through Amsterdam
- 34. Dutch Tolerance: Red Lights and Pot Shops
- 35. A Coffeesbop Conversation in Amsterdam
- Switzerland and Austria
- 36. Gimmelwald: The Swiss Alps in Your Lap
- 37. In Search of Edelweiss
- 38. Dangling from a Swiss Cliff
- 39. Café Chitchat, Chocolate Cake, and the Vienna Opera
- 40. The Castles of Boyhood Dreams
- Germany
- 41. Munich: Where Thirst is Worse Than Homesickness
- 42. Battleground Bacharach
- 43. Three Castles: Eltz, Rheinfels, and Neuschwanstein
- 44. Baden-Baden: Getting Naked with Strangers
- 45. Rothenburg's Night Watchman
- 46. After Hours at a German Stammtisch
- 47. Ghosts in Berlin
- 48. Berlin's Reichstag: Teary-Eyed Germans and a Big Glass Dome
- 49. Dachau: Forgive, But Never Forget
- Italy
- 50. Swept Away in Rome
- 51. A Romantic Breeze in Rome
- 52. Naples: Bella Chaos
- 53. Romantic Italy: Amalfi Coast and the Isle of Capri
- 54. My Dinner with Franklin
- 55. The Italian Love of Eating
- 56. Ciao Chow: Italians on American Food
- 57. Florence: City of Art
- 58. The Church of David
- 59. Tuscany: "Here Begins Prosciutto"
- 60. Siena: Italy's Medieval Soul
- 61. Siena's Palio: 90 Seconds of Sheer Medieval Madness
- 62. Civita di Bagnoregio: Italy's Dead Town
- 63. Communicating in Italy
- 64. The Italian Alps: Lounging in the Dolomites
- 65. Venice: Piero's Boat
- 66. Venice's Cicchetti Crawl
- 67. Italian Boys: Macho or Mammone?
- 68. Stendhal Syndrome
- 69. Padua: Students, Saints, and Scarpette
- 70. Appreciating Milano
- 71. Lago di Como: Where Italians Honeymoon
- 72. The Cinque Terre: Italy's Riviera
- 73. Vernazza: Lorenzo's View
- Scandinavia and the Baltics
- 74. Æro: Denmark's Ship-in-a-Bottle Island
- 75. Norway: The Old Country and a New Outlook
- 76. Charming, Challenging Oslo
- 77. Copenhagen's Christiania: No Cars, Corporations, or Dead Fish
- 78. Helsinki: "Relax ... I Wash You Twice"
- 79. 800 Finnish Singers March into Battle
- 80. Estonia: The Song of Freedom
- Eastern Europe
- 81. Czech Out Prague
- 82. A Czech Mud Bath in Trebon
- 83. Poland's Historic, Captivating Kraków
- 84. Cold War Memories in Budapest
- 85. Walking Dubrovnik's City Walls
- 86. The Back Road to Mostar: Off the Beaten Path in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 87. Mending Bridges in Mostar
- 88. The High Life and Humble Devotion on Montenegro's Bay of Rotor
- Greece and Turkey
- 89. Greece's Underrated Peloponnese Peninsula
- 90. Cockcrow on Hydra
- 91. Déjà Vu in Istanbul
- 92. Ducks, Dung, and Hay in Eastern Turkey
- 93. Laz-pitality in Northeastern Turkey
- 94. Güzelyurt: Beautiful Land
- Across Europe
- 95. Living History
- 96. A Little Bone Envy
- 97. Europe's Quirky Taste Treats
- 98. Artisan Europe
- 99. Europe Tears Down Walls-and Builds Bridges
- Conclusion
- 100. The Essence of Good Travel: Connecting with People
- Appendix Rick Steves' TV Clips