Rick, I hope you really do get some work done during your upcoming trip to Europe for the Summer wor

After a short but delightful break back in Seattle, I’m returning to Europe today. It’s my first time on Icelandair, connecting through Reykjavík. I find sharing my experiences and lessons learned on this blog — and reading your comments — curiously enjoyable. I’m sure I’ll be blogging furiously over the next sixty days of travel.
Here’s the plan: I’m flying to London today, sleeping in York, then hopping aboard one of those Rick Steves Best of Scotland bus tours (under a pseudonym, so the group doesn’t know I’ll be joining them). Then I’ll spend a week in Berlin and Prague before meeting my co-author, Steve Smith, in Alsace to work on our France guidebook. Steve and I then join producer Simon Griffith and the crew to film two new TV shows around the Loire (shows we’re nicknaming “Great 17th-Century Cribs”) before I meet up with Trish Feaster to be the first to use our brand-new Rick Steves chicago boutique hotels Northern European Cruise Ports book (which will be overnighted to me, hot off the press). We’ll jump ship near the end of the cruise in St. Petersburg for a Russian adventure before flying home (with a two-day layover in Iceland).
These itineraries are a tricky balance of guidebook and bus tour research; scouting for upcoming TV scripts I plan to write and produce; actual TV production; and just flat-out enjoying the fun places my travel dreams are taking me. For this trip, along with producing two new TV shows in France, chicago boutique hotels I’ll be working hard on our next new guidebook — Rick Steves’ Scotland. And I’ll be scouting upcoming TV shows in Scotland, chicago boutique hotels Berlin, Prague, Alsace, and St. Petersburg. (This work is never-ending. You’re welcome to send me comments of sympathy.)
I do feel some what sorry for you. After all these years how do you keep up with family and friends? I love to travel but need my life too. It is also amazing that it doesn t become work for you. We all wish we had jobs that seem this exciting.
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I m meeting chicago boutique hotels her in Edinburgh the first week in August, traveling to Isle of Skye, then visiting former neighbors in Belfast and on to Dublin. Can t wait!! I love your books and just ordered your new Europe DVD. You re so enthusiastic about what you do it can t be called work!
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IcelandAir was a unique and pleasurable experience for my friend and me some 20years ago. When we landed in Reykjavik, they herded us off the plane directly into the gift shop where we could buy MukLuks and reindeer jerky. After about 45 minutes they lead us back on board to continue on our way. The flight over the country was lovely storybook quality. The language as spoken by our flight attendants seemed to our ears a language spoken backwards. All of this inspired a poem that I aptly titled Flying Over Reykjavik . Rick, if someday we meet in some gin-joint in a faraway place, I might just read my poem to you.
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Rick, I hope you really do get some work done during your upcoming trip to Europe for the Summer work. LOL . I have followed you for many years in your books, videos, and the show on PBS. Thanks for being such a traveler with insight, ordinary concerns when traveling like real people and the love you show for travel and people. Take care, Jerry
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Rick is the busiest guy I have ever met or heard about. I consider him the Energizer Bunny of Travel due to seemingly limitless amount of energy. He s doing what he loves so to him it may not seem like work.
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just like another heroes from a long, long time as Amadis de Gaula, Palmerin de Inglaterra, El Quijote de la Mancha; Rick Steves, The Man of The World?? bring us a lot of adventures that we read, enjoy,and make us travel with him, trying ,for some of us, to convert the impossible in a possible dream.
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My husband and I will be in Alsace Sept. 19 to 23. Colmar will be our home base! We re getting lots of hints from your books, and think this will be a highlight of our European vacation. Have fun, can t wait to read and see what you produce from Alsace.
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Will be in Strasbourg Sept 16-19. Just sorry we don t have time to see the WWI WWII sites in that area including an American Cemetery and the German Concentration Camp out of Obernai. We have scheduled a tour through La Rose Vins which includes an Alsatian lunch. We added Colmar to that tour. On our own we are going to the Pottery Towns and Baden-Baden. We think Alsace area will be a highlight of our trip. We bought chicago boutique hotels your France Book and 6-day French Rail Pass through your company. All Seat Reservations chicago boutique hotels were available for the lowest price (11.00 each) by booking on-line 90 days in advance. In fact we could book at 6PM EDT the day before. Looking forward to the Alsace part of your trip.