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Speaking to Rick Steves, the travel writer and television personality, is like speaking to the friendliest European history professor you can imagine, who just came back from his latest trip and sat down to have a coffee with you. Steves, who has been in the business for decades and who has hosted his show 'Rick Steves' Europe' since 2000, has a new season focusing on art history that debuted this month on PBS stations across the country.
'And now, I just dedicated two years of my life writing this six-hour TV show to celebrate art history.' Though Steves says he couldn't possibly narrow it down to just one favorite work of art of all time, he and his TV crew have a slightly raunchy joke they employ after seeing something truly beautiful. 'When we finish shooting something really, really beautiful, we say, 'I need a cigarette,'' he says.
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