Rick Steves’ Travel Blog

It’s Day 11 of my 100-day trip to Europe, and we’re just wrapping up the production of two wonderful new shows about Sicily — and enjoying lots and lots of cannoli. (I’m not generally “over the moon” for local sweets, but I must say…when cannoli is good, it is really good.)

This clip is actually three clips: me “on camera,” introducing our bit on cannoli from a cool little perch we found; a tiny clip of the cameraman telling me exactly where to hold the cannoli for the close-up (with a nice background — every half an inch counts); and finally, the “tease.” (I open all my shows this way, with a goofy and hopefully enticing snippet of something we’ll share later in the episode).

What you’re not seeing here is a beautiful bit we filmed of the baker stuffing his cannoli. You can see that this fall when Season 10 of Rick Steves’ Europe airs across the US on public television.

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Every spring and summer, I spend 100 packed days in Europe — updating my guidebooks, filming my TV show, and refining our tour program. This year, I’m kicking things off with an exciting trip through Sicily, where my crew and I are making two new episodes of Rick Steves’ Europe in just 12 days.

With such an intensive schedule, I prefer to keep our crew small and agile. Here in Sicily, it’s just me, producer Simon Griffith, cameraman Peter Rummel, and tour guide Alfio Di Mauro — and every inch of our rental car is packed to the max. Take a peek inside the car as we get some of “the glue,” or drive-by shots, that we’ll use to connect scenes from different locations.

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