I know that many people cant actually travel for physical or financial reasons, or theyre busy at home with children or whatever, but they love to travel through Public Television. For all of us, especially for those people who cant travel, Public Television truly is the next best thing to a plane ticket. This station truly does bring the whole world right into our living rooms. And it happens each and every day because someone just like you picked up their phone and made a contribution. Join with them, wont you, and keep this station thriving. Call the number on your screen and say, count me in. Whether your gift is a basic member amount or a bit higher to receive one of ricks wonderful gifts, youll be part of the pbs family. In filming this special, i enjoyed celebrating christmas with so many families in so many different cultures. In looking at how those parents loved each of those children, i was reminded that regardless of our politics or language, how we worship or who brings us
[ speaks in italian ] didnt understand a word he said. For any traveler or europhile, these 80 episodes, with nearly 50 hours of video, offer a lifetime of travel learning, lessons, and fun. So, rick, do you recommend traveling during the holidays . Well, its exciting to be over there during the big holidays christmas, easter, new years, and so on. Generally things are shut down for the day, but other than that your sightseeing is wide open, and theres a few special holiday treats tossed in. Well be skating on the eiffel tower. Youll see that in just a few minutes. Id say the main concern is to have your hotel firmly reserved if youre traveling over the holiday, as things can be jammed up. By the way, make a point to know the holidays youll be encountering during your travels. Every country has a 4th of july type day may 17 in norway, july 14 in france, and so on. Also, you may be surprised by other days. May days a big deal for workers all over europe, and august 15th, thats the assum
Rain falling in many parts of the bay area at this hour after cleaning up from the friday storm, already gearing up for round two. Who do you want to go to for this . Rosemary is watching this. Its here, right . Its coming and looks like its spread all over. Thats right. Were moving into primetime. When we rolled in earlier still dry skies. Now the rain started, oh, about an hour ago. Its intensifying as we get through the next couple of hours. Steady rain this morning, scattered showers for the afternoon. Live look there at the bay bridge where its a gloomy start to the day. In addition to the clouds and the rain as the anchors mentioned we have wind back with us as well and theres a advisory. More on that coming up. You can see the rain is widespread and heavier bands moving in up along the coastline. Stretches from South San Francisco along halfmoon bay, san mateo light to moderate rainfall, along highway 101. 280 will be wet, if you have some place to head out to earlier and perhap
Dates back nearly 400 years ago to when european explorers first came to these Barrier Islands. Now, the wild horse is a beautiful animal and a joy to photograph, and this week, were gonna be meeting up with professional wildlife photographer jared lloyd, and hes gonna share with us his techniques for photographing these amazing animals. Im your host, doug gardner, and thank you for joining me on another edition of wild Photo Adventures. Jared, its good to see you again, man. I enjoyed shooting with you this past winter. What you got in store for us now . Well, were gonna be photographing wild horses on the coast of North Carolina. Were starting out down in what we call the Crystal Coast and making our way north up to the outer banks, photographing several different groups along the way. Awesome. Awesome. Its sunny right now, but i think they got reports of some weather coming in. Oh, yeah. Weve got a subtropical storm moving in on us this week, and so were gonna have to work fast and