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Podcast: Travel with Rick Steves
Episode: 190a The Pilgrim's Italy; Hape Kerkeling's Santiago de Compostela
Description: Colleen Heater, author of "The Pilgrim's Italy", describes how 21st century travelers can find inspiration at Italy's many religious shrines; a tour guide in Siena tells us about resoration efforts along the old pilgrim's trail from England to Rome; and a German comic confides what he learned from a month-long trek to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
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