Product Details

• Actors: Rick Steves
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Questar
• VHS Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1568551797
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,582 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Ooh la la, this installment in Rick Steves's Travel the World series has everything you'd expect from a trip to France: cruises on picturesque canals, tastings in dark, dank wine cellars, hill towns dotted with chateaux. Steves is the master of low-budget travel (as he espouses in his series of Europe Through the Back Door travel books), and his television series is a terrific way to either prepare for a trip abroad or simply vicariously experience the pleasures of another culture.

In this episode, France: Burgundy, Provence, & the Loire, Steves is shown Burgundy by an American friend who makes his home in the region. He then makes his own way to Provence and the Loire where he explores the splendors including castles and Roman ruins. As usual, practical tips are dispersed between scenic tours (for instance, the difference between gites and chambres d'hôte), making the series not only fun to watch but informative. And Steves has a few surprises in store (wait till you see a French campground). But, of course, the bulk of the show is France itself: from a 15th-century charity hospital to the ultra-rapid, extremely modern TGV trains. Bon voyage! --Jenny Brown

Product Description

Cruise romantic canals past chateau and wine country, wonder at Romanesque churches, sample escargot, and settle in a country inn. Discover Provence's Roman ruins, sip wine at a family winery in Cote du Rhone, explore castles, and marvel at Chartres Cathedral. 1997 VHS 60 min. Wehman Video Cat. #0586

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rick Steves is the best!, February 9, 2000

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This review is from: France: Burgundy, Provence & the Loire [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rick Steves' PBS series is one of my "can't miss" TV shows every week, so this video, which combines a couple of his shows on France, is "magnifique". Steves gives lots of practical advice about travel in France, takes us to Burgundy wine country, a rural gite, wonderful restaurants (just looking at the food made my mouth water!), and the Chateaux of the Loire valley. I'm going to France this fall, so being able to get a preview of some of the places I'll see was wonderful.

No one is as good at doing Europe as Rick Steves. He has a down to earth style and really mixes it up with the locals, staying at small hotels, eating in mom & pop restaurants. He has a way of making you feel that you've seen the real France (or Italy, or Germany, etc.), not just the tourist destinations.

If you love France you'll love it even more after viewing this video. (Also check out the one on Paris, Normandy and Brittany. This one is my favorie, however...I've watched it many times in anticipation of my trip!)

Happy Travels!