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Me with Raffaele at the Hotel Hiberia in Rome. It was love at first site. Call me, R. For whatever reason, it didn’t really occur to me until now that with all of Italy’s fabulous foods, this country’s sorcery involving milk-based foods should firmly place Everything Dairy at the...
If that is your interest, and while I have never been on one, look at the Rick Steves tours found elsewhere on this site: https://www.ricksteves.com/tours/italy and deal with them direct. If you want your own itinerary, most of the travel agents out there just will not be able to...
the past year, my Audio Europe™ app has given more than 100,000 travelers free access to my audio walking tours of the top sites in London, Paris, Venice, Florence, Rome and Athens — plus 200 tracks of information and interviews from my public radio program,Travel with Rick Steves. ...
All of my Protestant life I’ve watched hard-scrabble pilgrims and frail nuns climb Rome’s Scala Santa (Holy Steps) on their knees. I always observed as though they were in a parallel universe. This year, I passed into that universe. I picked up the little pilgrim’s primer explaining ...
I observed a man in the Rome subway shortchanging half of the tourists who went through his turnstile. Half of his victims caught him and got their correct change with apologies. Overall, about 25 percent didn't notice and probably went home saying, "Mamma mia, Italy is really expensive."...
Rome's Colosseum gets busy in peak season. Wet weather needn't dampen a visit to Europe's biggest cities, which bustle year-round. By Rick Steves Some people have flexible enough jobs and lifestyles to cherry-pick when to take their vacations, but many others have less choice. Fortunately,...