London: Yesterday and Today | Rick Steves' Europe
London: Yesterday and Today | Rick Steves' Europe
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In this new episode of Rick Steves' Europe, our royal tour of London starts with red-coat pageantry at Buckingham Palace. Riding red buses, black cabs, and the Tube, we pop into the Houses of Parliament at Westminster and visit Churchill’s underground war rooms — a World War II time warp. After looking into the eyes of those who put the great in Britain at the Portrait Gallery, we cruise the River Thames to the mighty Tower of London. Watch this episode on your local public television station, s
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In this new episode of Rick Steves' Europe, our royal tour of London starts with red-coat pageantry at Buckingham Palace. Riding red buses, black cabs, and the Tube, we pop into the Houses of Parliament at Westminster and visit Churchill’s underground war rooms — a World War II time warp. After looking into the eyes of those who put the great in Britain at the Portrait Gallery, we cruise the River Thames to the mighty Tower of London. Watch this episode on your local public television station, s
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Bring the kids! Our Family Europe: London to Florence tour delivers a colorful mix of must-see cities (London, Paris, Florence), and stroll-around charms (Burgundy, the Swiss Alps, Italy's Cinque Terre). Along the way, you and your kids will encounter some fascinating bits of art, history, and culture — along with a couple of castles, a boat, a train, a mountain gondola lift, plenty of hiking, and even a swimming pool or two. Let's go: www.ricksteves.com/tours/europe/family-europe-london-florenc
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Bring the kids! Our Family Europe: London to Florence tour delivers a colorful mix of must-see cities (London, Paris, Florence), and stroll-around charms (Burgundy, the Swiss Alps, Italy's Cinque Terre). Along the way, you and your kids will encounter some fascinating bits of art, history, and culture — along with a couple of castles, a boat, a train, a mountain gondola lift, plenty of hiking, and even a swimming pool or two. Let's go: www.ricksteves.com/tours/europe/family-europe-london-florenc
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Cambridge, 60 miles north of London, is world-famous for its prestigious university. William Wordsworth, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Jane Goodall, and King Charles III are only a few of its illustrious alumni. The university dominates — and owns — most of Cambridge, a historic town of about 125,000 people. Cambridge is the epitome of a university town, with busy bikers, stately residence halls, plenty of bookshops, and proud locals who can point out where DNA was originally modele
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Cambridge, 60 miles north of London, is world-famous for its prestigious university. William Wordsworth, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Jane Goodall, and King Charles III are only a few of its illustrious alumni. The university dominates — and owns — most of Cambridge, a historic town of about 125,000 people. Cambridge is the epitome of a university town, with busy bikers, stately residence halls, plenty of bookshops, and proud locals who can point out where DNA was originally modele
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The Changing of the Guard ceremony is the spectacle every London visitor must see at least once: stone-faced, bearskin-hatted guards changing posts with much fanfare, accompanied by a brass band. (This is also where you’ll see nearly every tourist in London gathered in one place at the same time.) The center of all this fanfare is the half-hour ceremony that takes place in the forecourt (between the palace and the fence) in front of Buckingham Palace. At 11:00 a batch of fresh guards meets the O
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The Changing of the Guard ceremony is the spectacle every London visitor must see at least once: stone-faced, bearskin-hatted guards changing posts with much fanfare, accompanied by a brass band. (This is also where you’ll see nearly every tourist in London gathered in one place at the same time.) The center of all this fanfare is the half-hour ceremony that takes place in the forecourt (between the palace and the fence) in front of Buckingham Palace. At 11:00 a batch of fresh guards meets the O
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To celebrate the season, I’m sharing clips, extras, and behind-the-scenes notes from my one-hour special, “Rick Steves’ European Christmas.” Today we travel to London, which offers Christmas fun fit for a queen and streets twinkling with joy. The Christmas special is the only time we’ve ever filmed with a sound technician. We knew that we’d be privileged to film at wonderful Christmas concerts throughout Europe and we wanted to get the music just right. Our sound team did a marvelous job, and mu
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To celebrate the season, I’m sharing clips, extras, and behind-the-scenes notes from my one-hour special, “Rick Steves’ European Christmas.” Today we travel to London, which offers Christmas fun fit for a queen and streets twinkling with joy. The Christmas special is the only time we’ve ever filmed with a sound technician. We knew that we’d be privileged to film at wonderful Christmas concerts throughout Europe and we wanted to get the music just right. Our sound team did a marvelous job, and mu
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To celebrate the season, I’m sharing daily clips, extras and behind-the-scenes notes from “Rick Steves’ European Christmas.” Today we travel to London, which offers Christmas fun fit for a queen and streets twinkling with joy. The Christmas special is the only time we’ve ever filmed with a sound technician. We knew music is a big part of Christmas, we’d be privileged to film at wonderful concerts throughout Europe, and we wanted to get the music just right. Our sound guys did a marvelous job, an
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To celebrate the season, I’m sharing daily clips, extras and behind-the-scenes notes from “Rick Steves’ European Christmas.” Today we travel to London, which offers Christmas fun fit for a queen and streets twinkling with joy. The Christmas special is the only time we’ve ever filmed with a sound technician. We knew music is a big part of Christmas, we’d be privileged to film at wonderful concerts throughout Europe, and we wanted to get the music just right. Our sound guys did a marvelous job, an
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It’s been so much fun to hear from you about the new season of my series, Rick Steves’ Europe. Your enthusiasm is inspiring — and I’m excited to start shooting Season 11 this spring. But first, we’re taking a few days for housekeeping in our TV studio — and we found some great little clips from the past four seasons that ended up on the cutting room floor. (Nearly all our episodes wind up being a few minutes long, and then we have to make a hard call on what must go.) Reviewing these “lost clips
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