Program 508a: Another European Christmas

Warm up your holidays by including time-tested traditions from the Old World, as Rick learns how friends in Germany, England, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, and the Czech Republic celebrate Christmas. Potato salad and fish stew, anyone?

• German tour guides Carolina Marburger, Fabian Rueger, and Holger Zimmer
• English tour guides Liz Boardman, Lorraine Dineen, and Mark Seymour
• Belgian tour guides Nina Dierckx and Ferdi Menghi
• George Farkas, tour guide based in Budapest, Hungary
• Call-out to Portuguese tour guide Claudia da Costa in Lisbon  
• Katerina Svobodova, tour guide based in Prague, Czech Republic

• You can watch the Rick Steves European Christmas TV special on demand. Scroll past the script to find a number of Christmas recipes from Rick's European tour guide friends.
• The Czech-made children's film "Three Nuts for Cinderella" is a holiday-season classic in Germany and Eastern Europe. In English it's also known as "Three Wishes for Cinderella." (In the movie, Cinderella finds three magical hazelnuts that allow her to make a wish.)