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Jun 2025
1h 21m

Rick Steves' Europe: Rick Steves (2021)

Guy Raz | Wondery
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Rick Steves spent the summer after high school backpacking through Europe on two dollars a day—sleeping on the floor, sneaking into museums, and subsisting on a diet of bread and jam. When he came home, he found people were hungry for tips on how to visit Europe on the cheap, so he began teaching classes, and was soon hawking a self-published guidebook out o ... Show More
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