823 The View from Europe; Stonecutter’s Tour of Europe
2/28/202652 min
Rick engages a panel of European tour-guide friends to find out how they're responding to recent changes in the political relationship between their countries and the US, and to discuss the home-grown populist pressures that have been gaining followers in Europe. Plus sculptor Richard Rhodes recommends European destinations with especially impressive stonework — from famous buildings to little-known sites that have endured through the ages.
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First 90 secondsRick Steves· Host0:00
[instrumental music] How did Germans feel about America following the Second World War?
Katja Willebrand· Guest0:04
So I remember my father talking about it, my grandparents, how they felt very shortly after that it was a liberation from fascism more than being defeated by a victorious power.
Rick Steves· Host0:15
Coming up, I've invited a few European friends to tell us how they're responding to the recent changes in the political relationship of the US with their countries.
Joris Schipper· Guest0:24
What is our role at the table?
Nina Sefusati· Guest0:26
And now we have that feeling that America is not a reliable, very important word I think, ally.
Rick Steves· Host0:33
Plus, artist Richard Rhodes tells us how to view the icons of Europe, like the Parthenon and Notre Dame, the way its master craftsmen saw them. He helps us notice how the stonework they use endures through the centuries.
Richard Rhodes· Guest0:45
It's a legacy material, which is why we use it to honor the dead. We build monuments to things we care about.
Rick Steves· Host0:52
Come along for a great hour ahead. It's Travel with Rick Steves. [piano music] We'll look for visual poetry in the great stoneworks of Europe today on Travel with Rick Steves. Master stonemason Richard Rhodes joins us later in the hour to recommend what to look for among Europe's great monuments. But first, I've invited three of my European tour guide friends to put up a mirror, as it were, to show us how they're seeing the United States lately. Are the sudden changes in American policy toward the rest of the world changing what they think of us? And how might it impact their lives