audreyh1
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So we are walking along the Balcón de Europa in Nerja, Spain (on the Mediterranean coast), enjoying the lovely weather and awesome views, and we turn a corner, and Rick Steves is standing there looking right at us!
I hesitated half a step, and I could tell he was waiting to see whether we recognized him (I thought I was hallucinating there for a moment!). So we went up and chatted with him. He was with a local guide - reviewing sites I suppose, because he already covers Nerja in his books and shows. He asked us a lot of questions: about where we were from, where we were staying, how we were planning to spend our time in Nerja, etc. We chatted about the gorgeous weather this May in Spain, how hot our south Texas weather gets versus the southern Spain weather. Quite a few things!
It's mostly British and European tourists in Nerja. Nobody around us was paying any attention at all.
It was so great to be able to thank Rick Steves personally for all the work he has done over the decades and that has really helped us. He graciously deferred to his guide and said he would be useless without the help of the local guides. He was super gracious in general. Banner day!
I hesitated half a step, and I could tell he was waiting to see whether we recognized him (I thought I was hallucinating there for a moment!). So we went up and chatted with him. He was with a local guide - reviewing sites I suppose, because he already covers Nerja in his books and shows. He asked us a lot of questions: about where we were from, where we were staying, how we were planning to spend our time in Nerja, etc. We chatted about the gorgeous weather this May in Spain, how hot our south Texas weather gets versus the southern Spain weather. Quite a few things!
It's mostly British and European tourists in Nerja. Nobody around us was paying any attention at all.
It was so great to be able to thank Rick Steves personally for all the work he has done over the decades and that has really helped us. He graciously deferred to his guide and said he would be useless without the help of the local guides. He was super gracious in general. Banner day!
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