Program 818: Amsterdam Museums; Regenerating London; European Borders

Two Dutch tour guides help us get the picture on what's new on Amsterdam's eclectic exhibit scene. Then a Blue Badge guide lets us in on where to go in London to see the exciting ways the venerable city is reinventing itself. And a journalist delves into the inexact science of borders and ponders the complicated relationship between physical geography and national identity.

• Dutch tour guides Ellen Janzing and Jody van Engelsdorp
• Katherine Alcock, tour guide from London
• New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge, author of "A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders" (The Experiment)

• The Rick Steves online guide to Amsterdam.
• Amsterdam Tips provides a map of museum locations along Amsterdam's metro lines.
• Ellen Janzing offers custom tours of The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland.
• Jody van Engelsdorp can be contacted from her Instagram page.
• Jody and Ellen discuss touring sites across Holland on Travel with Rick Steves program #800 from August 2025.
• The Rick Steves online guide to London.
• Renovated sites that Rick and Katie discuss include Canary Wharf at the Docklands, the King's Cross St. Pancras Tube station, Coal Drops Yard, historic Leadenhall Market, and Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the Thames.
• 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.
• Katie explained how Londoners rely on their underground subway system, "the Tube," on Travel with Rick Steves program #806 in September 2025.
• Jonn Elledge is the author of "A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders."
• Jonn also writes frequently about political issues for the New Statesman. He also posts his thoughts and ideas to Substack and @jonnelledge on Bluesky.
• Jonn spoke about "the lines on our map" on Travel with Rick Steves program #788 in April 2025.