Rick Steves

Rick Steves Classroom Europe Rick Steves Classroom Europe® is a free resource allowing teachers to share the best of European art, history, and culture with their students and fellow educators.

If you search for “Holocaust” in our Rick Steves Classroom Europe video library (classroom.ricksteves.com), you’ll find a dozen clips that can be shared as a teaching tool at home or in the classroom. Please share this free resource with the parents and teachers in your life.

As the years go by and the last eyewitnesses to the Holocaust pass away, it's more important than ever to keep that tragic memory alive — and to remember the stark lessons of what happens when a society gives power to hate and racism.

Enshrined on a Dachau memorial is a message from Hitler's victims: “Forgive, but never forget.”

I have an ethic that virtually every @ricksteveseurope.bsky.social tour through Germany includes a visit to a concentration camp memorial. When you travel thoughtfully, the impact changes you.

Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.

Get well soon!

Excellent account that is even more relevant today than when it was originally made.

Acclaimed writer Rick Steves on gaining perspective through travel Edmonds-based travel writer and TV host Rick Steves understands why some Americans may hesitate to travel these days. But according to Steves, it's more important than ever.

Edmonds-based travel writer and TV host Rick Steves understands why some Americans may hesitate to travel these days. But according to Steves, it's more important than ever. @ricksteves.bsky.social

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The 2026 Travel Festival

...and there's more to come! Register for upcoming live sessions here: www.ricksteves.com/travel-festival.

More than 10,000 people joined me live on Monday night to kick off our virtual travel festival — and together, we enjoyed a mouthwatering hour of my favorite foodie tips and tastiest experiences.

Missed it? Watch a recording here: www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/travel-classes/festival-videos

The 2026 Travel Festival starts tonight at 6pm PT! Register to watch via Zoom, or tune in on the “Rick Steves Travel Talks” YouTube channel. Learn more and register: www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/...

Tune in to the 2026 Travel Festival (January 12-16, @6pm PT) to brush up on European travel best practices and pick up timely tips for successful trips in the year ahead. Register (for free) for any or all of these sessions: www.ricksteves.com/travel-tips/...

Wait, that’s not Rick Steves! We went down the ‘pink slime’ rabbit hole - My Edmonds News In December, My Neighborhood News Group reporter Angelica Relente wrote about Edmonds-based travel guide and philanthropist Rick Steves and his purchase of the Lynnwood Hygiene Center building. Relent...

Beware of "pink slime" media. @a-rlnt.bsky.social covered the story about @ricksteves.bsky.social last month, & this story about "Rick Steves" came up. Many readers pointed out that is NOT Rick nor is that building the hygiene center.

Story by Jamie Holter.

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Rick Steves buys ‘the most beautiful Christmas present’ for homeless neighbors Five years after the Lynnwood Hygiene Center opened, serving hundreds in poverty, the landlord planned to sell. Steves stepped in to buy it.

A more detailed account of the purchase by @ricksteves.bsky.social of a neighborhood hygiene center, his plans to help improve it further, and him calling out a failure to support vulnerable people. What a mensch. Be Rick.
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Agreed!

Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

Wine Tasting with Rick Steves Join travel expert Rick Steves for an unforgettable wine tasting adventure!

Excited to see @ricksteves.bsky.social supporting my local PBS station. Looking forward to trying some wine as well!

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This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all!

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And my neighbors who are cold, wet, hungry, and overwhelmed…are now happy that their humble little refuge — where love gets traction, and prayers are answered — will stay in business.

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And now, I get to partner with the wonderful network of volunteers and caring people who run the Lynnwood Hygiene Center. And — thanks to $400K in community donations — there is funding to develop the center through capital improvements.

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So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.

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It's an invisible need… an invisible center… helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I’m haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed that’s so widespread (and sadly, celebrated) in our multi-millionaire and billionaire class.

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And tragically, once a center like this is gone, it’s hard to imagine it popping up somewhere else in these NIMBY times.

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For an entire community of my down-and-out neighbors, this hygiene center is the only place to take a shower, wash clothes, repair a bike, or get a sweater, blanket, or hot meal…while also enjoying a little bit of community.

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Then, about a month ago, I learned that the only hygiene center in my neighborhood was being shut down. The property was being sold...destined to be developed.

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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Our Season’s Givings event is in full swing! Until Dec. 31, when you book a seat on a 2026 tour, $100 will be donated to a nonprofit on your behalf. (Pssst, we also have dozens of tours on sale for up to $700 off).

Explore 2026 tours: www.ricksteves.com/tours/2026-t...

Thanks to Rick Steves, Lynnwood Hygiene Center has a permanent home | MLTnews.com ‘If this place wasn’t here I don’t know how I would’ve survived’ -- Sherman Gillins The Jean Kim Foundation’s (JKF) Hygiene Center in Lynnwood is here to

Our coverage of the closing of a local hygiene center last month spurred a philanthropist to buy the property for $2M. Donors in WA & other states chipped in remaining $500K to secure the land.

Thanks, @ricksteves.bsky.social

Thanks @a-rlnt.bsky.social for reporting

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Rick’s European Sleigh Ride: A Rollicking Review of Magic Moments from 2025 Travels Enjoy our live Monday Night Travel party with this video recorded on December 15, 2025. In this festive edition of Monday Night Travel, Rick Steves shares a collection of fresh sizzle reels and highl...

This week on Monday Night Travel, I shared a festive & information-packed review of my 2025 travels—from Istanbul to Paris and from London to a gourmet barge extravaganza in Burgundy. Plus, I shared a peek behind the scenes at some of my creative adventures at home.

Missed it? Enjoy the recording: