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Join Us for Monday Night Travel

Are you dreaming of travel? Join us live on Mondays for our Monday Night Travel series! Together we'll journey to destinations across Europe and beyond with expert guests leading the way. Each week, you'll learn about art, history, food, and culture while picking up tried-and-true travel tips along the way. You'll even have a chance to ask questions during a live Q&A. Whether you're planning a specific trip, dreaming up vacation ideas, or craving a virtual adventure with our merry band of travelers, Monday Night Travel welcomes you aboard!

You must register (it's free!) for each event below. For more information, see our MNT FAQ.

Join us April 21–May 2 for our Festival of Tours!
This nine-night virtual series focuses on our tour program and 46 exciting itineraries.

 
MNT - Rick Steves in Poland

April 14: Watch with Rick Steves – Poland

6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER

Join Rick as we watch his new public televsion special "Rick Steves Poland." He'll guide us through the cultural and intellectual center of Poland, Kraków, with its stunning square and historic castle. Then we'll travel to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle before finishing in the Baltic harbor city of Gdańsk, with its stirring Solidarity history. Along the way, Rick will pepper us with behind-the-scenes stories and answer your most pressing Poland travel questions.

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Monday, April 21: Best of Europe Tours with Rick Steves

6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER

Each year, 30,000 travelers trust a Rick Steves' Europe tour to make their European travel dreams come true — many of whom have taken a dozen or more of our tours. Join Rick as he shares the story of how his tour program began, how it evolved, and how his early days as a guide helped mold the travel philosophy that continues to steer our tours today. Plus, Rick revisits his flagship 21-day tour — from Amsterdam, down to Rome, and back up to Paris — and shares how you can embark on that same odyssey with a Rick Steves' Europe guide at your side.

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Monday, April 28: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Tours with Dave Hoerlein & Jim McDonough

6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER

Dave Hoerlein was Rick's first employee, leading tours across Europe for decades. In this session, he's joined by new guide and German expat Jim McDonough as together they trace our itineraries across the Germanic world. We begin by visiting Germany's Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich before enjoying Bavaria's fairy-tale Neuschwanstein Castle and medieval Rothenburg. In Austria, we tour the grand capital of Vienna and Mozart-crazy Salzburg, along with Danube charm. We finish in Switzerland — licking gelato in Italian-speaking Lugano, savoring cosmopolitan Lausanne, and ascending cut-glass peaks to a nature-lover's nirvana.

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May 5: Mexico City with Julie Meade

6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET | REGISTER

When the Aztecs built their capital on an island in Lake Texcoco 700 years ago, they could not have imagined it would grow into the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere. Mexico guidebook author Julie Meade joins us to unspool the long history leading from these Aztec origins to the varied and vibrant culture of today’s Mexico City. With Julie at our side, we dig into archaeological treasure troves like the Templo Mayor and National Museum of Anthropology, immerse ourselves in Mexican muralism and contemporary art, and savor tastes of tacos and cantina culture along the way.

 

Video Recordings

You can enjoy Monday Night Travel any night of the week with our video recordings. Relive the fun, intimacy, and insight of joining travel experts as they share itinerary-boosting tips, tell stories from the road, and answer viewer questions.

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Watch with Jody van Engelsdorp Gastelaars — Bruges and Brussels

This event was recorded on April 7, 2025.

Belgium is home to master painters, the seat of the European Union, and the world's tastiest chocolate. In this watch-along with guide Jody van Engelsdorp Gastelaars, we revisit these Belgian delights and more in Rick's TV episode "Belgium: Bruges and Brussels" from 2004. Together, we cycle along canals, climb a bell tower to get up close and fortissimo at a carillon concert, savor the exquisite art of Hans Memling, and get swept up in Magritte's surreal dreamscapes. Along the way, Jody shares how these two Belgian cities have evolved over the past two decades.

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