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696 For the Love of Guidebooks; The Gulf; Greatest Art In Europe

Travel with Rick Steves

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Guidebooks in Disguise - A Thing of Beauty

With the books you've written lately, to write like guidebooks in disguise. You have managed with these books to kind of have that utopian writers sort of a niche where you don't need to know what time is the museum closed and how much is the tourist menu if you arrive early. It's kind of a great niche. Well, I'm indulging myself I suppose. But also when I write my book about Greece, I was following a second century guidebook writer, Paul Senius, second century BC. So guidebook writers have been around forever. And it's interesting to read him, this 2000 year old guidebookWriter, because he exhibits all the same traits that most of

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