A Rick Steves Christmas
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.13.05 | 11:55 PM ET
All the big stars have done at least one TV Christmas special: Jackie Gleason, Charlie Brown, Nick and Jessica. This year, finally, a travel writer has gotten into the act. PBS Europe travel guru Rick Steves has produced Rick Steves’ European Christmas, and it’s airing this month on PBS stations around the United States. The show features Steves taking in holiday celebrations in seven locales, from Italy to Norway. He and his family play in the snow and sit down to delicious dinners, and watching it makes you wish the dollar wasn’t in the tank and that you, too, could afford a winter jaunt to Europe.
But you can’t. So you heat up the leftover burrito in your fridge, crack open a beer and flip on PBS, wishing you were not stuck in your San Diego apartment, trying to finish a freelance assignment for which you won’t be paid for at least a month, and ranting in your weblog, but instead enjoying cheese fondue and a glass of gewurztraminer, and living large, in the Swiss Alps.
I’m glad I got that off my chest.
Steves’ Web site features an article he wrote about producing the show, as well as a schedule of airtimes around the nation.
Related on World Hum:
* Q-and-A with Andrew Steves: Travels in Dad’s Footsteps
* Rick Steves on “60 Minutes”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Margaret J. Vaughn 12.16.05 | 4:23 PM ET
This special has not been on our local PBS station, WKNO, and we all want to see it!!! It is on the Mississippi public television station every week and we haven’t had it once. We love Rick Steves.
Christmas in Lillehammer Norway 10.25.06 | 8:58 AM ET
Christmas is soon upon us and Lillehammer area is gearing up to greet Christmas visitors arriving from near and far. Christmas in Lillehammer will provide you with many memorable experiences during a time of the year when family, friends and delicious food are in focus.
Lillehammer area is the perfect venue to relax and enjoy quality time with your family and friends. If you are travelling alone you will also have ample opportunity to meet people coming to the area also looking to make new friends. There will be a wide range of activities for both young and old – a place where all generations can enjoy the festive Yuletide spirit together.
carol moorehead 12.11.07 | 6:26 PM ET
How can I get several copies of the Rick Steves European Christmas DVD, if I have already contributed to WOSU PBS. I’d love to have some for Christmas presents. Carol Moorehead