826 Ask the Senior Nomads; What Europeans Are Talking About
3/28/202652 min
Debbie and Michael Campbell, aka the "Senior Nomads," offer listeners their expert advice on traveling full-time during retirement. And tour guides from Britain, Poland, and Germany reflect on how politics and media shape public conversation about current events within their own and neighboring nations.
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First 90 secondsRick Steves· Host0:00
[gentle music] When you spend the first 12 years of your retirement traveling the world full time, people wanna know how you do it.
Michael Campbell· Guest0:07
It's just the two of us, and we're on the board of directors, we're on the task force, we're on the budget committee. It's just the same over and over and over again. And so you just have to get along.
Debbie Campbell· Guest0:16
I go the doodly way, he goes the straight way, and we end up in the same place.
Rick Steves· Host0:19
Coming up, the Senior Nomads answer your questions for making long-term travel work for you. We'll also check in with friends from Europe on some of what they've been talking about lately, and to hear what they expect from the European Union.
Holger Zimmer· Guest0:33
The idea of Europe for me personally really is people getting together, working together.
Agnes Sroka· Guest0:38
For me, Europe was the possibility of, uh, studying abroad.
Rick Steves· Host0:42
While in Britain, regrets over their divorce from the EU remain.
Michael Dempsey· Guest0:46
Peace, prosperity, and predictability. Brexit has undermined all three of those things.
Rick Steves· Host0:53
Come join us for the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. The world may be a lot of things lately, but boring it is not. Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, we've assembled another panel of friends from Europe to tell us what they've been thinking about and discussing in their countries, especially how they view the ideals of the European Union as an increasingly divisive political climate gains traction on their side of the Atlantic. Let's start the hour with another visit from Debbie and Michael Campbell. We recently invited listeners to email us questions for