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Program 806: Swedish-Norwegian Cousins; The London Tube; Czech Castles
Release Date: 09-27-2025
Description
Get an inside look at the (mostly) friendly rivalries of Scandinavia as a pair of tour guides from Sweden and Norway sit down for a chat. Then hear from a London Blue Badge guide about what to know — and love — about London's famous underground metro system. And listen in as we explore the grand castles of the Czech Republic.
Guests
- Håkan Frändén, tour guide from Stockholm, Sweden
- Pål Johansen, tour guide from Oslo, Norway
- Katherine Alcock, tour guide from London, England
- Katerina Svobodova and Jana Hronkova, tour guides from Prague, Czech Republic
Additional Info
- Pål Johansen offers private tours in Norway and Scandinavia, and posts videos about his life in Oslo on his YouTube channel and at his "Norway with Pål" website.
- The Rick Steves online guide to London.
- The stylized color-coded map of the London Tube lines and stations is published by Transport for London.
- Katherine Alcock offers private tours of London, Oxford, Windsor, Bath, Canterbury, and Salisbury, and is one of the guides for the "London Loo" tour of the city's historic toilets and sanitation system.
- The Rick Steves online guide to the Czech Republic.
- Jana Hronkova's tour company is called Prague Discoveries.
- Katerina Svobodova provides tour planning advice and custom tours in Prague and the surrounding region.
- William Lobkowicz explains how he was invited back to reclaim his family's castle in Prague, on Travel with Rick Steves program #258 from September 2011.