 | | For this trip, I'll be working hard on my new Scotland guidebook and scouting upcoming TV shows in Scotland, Berlin, Prague, Alsace, and St. Petersburg. | | | |  | | | | | Travel Store Savings | | Jul 1 - 7: Save 20% on Streetwise Maps; Save 20% on Rick's Travel Pillow | | Jul 8 - 14: Save 20% on Handy Extras; Save 30% on Rick's Pocket Venice Guidebook | | | | | Dear Traveler,
After a short but delightful break back in Seattle, I'm returning to Europe for the rest of the summer. I find sharing my experiences and lessons learned on my blog and Facebook — and reading your comments — curiously enjoyable. I'm sure I'll be blogging furiously over the next 60 days of travel.
Here's my plan: I fly to London, sleep in York, then hop aboard one of those Rick Steves Best of Scotland bus tours (under a pseudonym, so the group doesn't know I'm joining them). Then I 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 our TV 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' Northern European Cruise Ports book (which will be overnighted to me, hot off the press). We jump ship near the end of the cruise in St. Petersburg for a Russian adventure before flying home with a two-day stop in Reykjavík, 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 of places my travel dreams are taking me. For this trip, along with producing new TV shows in France, I'll be working hard on our next new guidebook — Rick Steves' Scotland. And I'll be scouting upcoming TV shows in Scotland, Berlin, Prague, Alsace, and St. Petersburg. (Thankfully, this work is never-ending.)
I hope you and your globetrotting friends can travel along with me on Facebook ("like" me and you won't miss anything) and my blog. If you don't have big travel plans for the summer, this month's Travel News has plenty of enticing articles and insights designed to stoke your own travel dreams. We'll visit Europe's beautiful flower gardens, eclectic Antwerp, and the bustling city of Leipzig. I'll also give you my tips for packing light and our Travelers Helpline users share their thoughts about whether or not the Louvre is a 'must-see.'
Thanks for following my summer adventures.
Happy travels,
Rick |
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