In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job and over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. While engaging with the works of literary predecessors from Rebecca West to Chekhov and the nineteenth-century French aristocrat the Marquis de Custine, Nicolay explores the past and future of punk rock...

Includes all 8 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Eastern Europe, airing from 2000 to 2012. The shows featured are: Prague and Czech Republic; Czech Republic Beyond Prague; Poland: Krakow, Auschwitz and Warsaw; Budapest; Croatia; Best of Slovenia; Dubrovnik and Balkan Side-Trips; and Surprising Bulgaria.

DVD: Includes 8 episodes of "Rick Steves' Europe" television program on Eastern Europe. Blu-ray: Includes 6 episodes of "Rick Steves' Europe" television program on Eastern Europe.

Travel into territory that was once forbidden - the new Europe previously shrouded behind the Iron Curtain. Now that the Iron Curtain has lifted and the Cold War is over, Michael can enjoy a new freedom to roam unhindered across an unexplored swathe of this continent. From Estonia in the north to Turkey in the south, where Europe reaches out to Asia across the Bosphorus, Michael's journey takes him through twenty countries, some Central European,...

Includes 8 half-hour Rick Steves' Europe TV shows on Eastern Europe, Israel and Egypt, produced from 2000 to 2009.

"With a borrowed rucksack and the lifeline of a pound sterling a week, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from Amsterdam to walk to Constantinople -- a trip that was to take him a year and a half. The first part of that walk was recounted in his remarkable work of travel and autobiography A Time of Gifts. Between the Woods and the Water continues the journey ... [He] planned to live like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar -- sleeping in...

From Budapest to Bucarest, Joseph seeks the surprising and the little-known, as well as hits the highlights as he hop-scotches his way through some of the best and undiscovered of Europe. Along the way there's always time for a taste of the region's culinary gems and to take time to share a drink and a chat with the locals. Join Joseph on a colorful kaleidoscope of adventures in the heart of the heart of Europe.