We’re celebrating our new season of Rick Steves’ Europe — 12 new travel shows airing on public television all over the USA — by giving away the store. Each week, we’re awarding a $200 gift card to one Facebook friend. The winner can use the card at ricksteves/shop to stock up on guidebooks, travel gear, and luggage for their next adventure. The Prague episode was a thrill to coordinate and weave together. And with the 25th anniversary of Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution just a few weeks ago, Im more inspired than ever by tales of the massive, peaceful protests that filled that citys Wenceslas Square in the fall of 1989. For this episode, I would have loved to include a high wide shot of Wenceslas Square, to have my local expert Honza illustrate how the masses gathered and jangled their keys en masse to send a message to the communist regime: “It’s time to go home.” And I wish we had time to say more about the great Reformer Jan Hus. But there’s never enough time to do it all. We did show one artifact that probably isnt what it’s popularly assumed to be. I must confess that we went with the popular attribution knowing it’s probably incorrect. What was it? The person who best answers this question (in our fair-and-balanced, arbitrary judgment), wins. Just write your answer, in 60 words or less, as a comment to this post. Search for local TV listings on your public television stations website, and submit your answers through December 23. We’ll announce the winner on December 24, along with next week’s question. For last week, I guess I stumped you. During that program we were in “run and gun” mode, filming in six different towns in six days and we never found the right herring stand – which I really wanted to get into the program. So, we shot that in Amsterdam pretty tight so the casual viewer wouldn’t know it was not in the countryside. But to answer the question, the herring stand (which worked out to be a great little bit) was placed in Haarlem but was actually filmed in Amsterdam (on Herrengracht, a block off Rembrandtplein). Play along every week until the whole series has aired. Good luck! (This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Facebook.)
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:05:40 +0000
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