And our hundred-year-old craftsman house in Seattle was filled with what has to be the most riotous laughter it’s ever witnessed.ĭespite our attempts to herd our friends to our dining room table, they all insisted on squeezing into the tiny nook in the corner of our kitchen - a dozen Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Slovenes, and Bulgarians sitting cross-legged and cracking each other up. My wife and I have a tradition of inviting our Eastern European guides to our home for dinner, offering them a homey and casual break from a week of conference rooms, happy hours, and catered meals.
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The Camaraderie of Tour Guidesįirst off - and I say this from the heart, not out of any professional obligation - the tour guides I have the pleasure of working with at Rick Steves’ Europe are astonishingly cool people. Here’s my own collection of warts-and-all stories that, if nothing else, might give you a little empathy for your guide. But most of the time, it hardly qualifies as “glamorous.” Every tour guide collects funny anecdotes about those little serendipities - good and bad - that befall them and their tour members. The answer: Be a passionate traveler…then do it with 26 people in tow.
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People sometimes ask me how to be a Rick Steves tour guide. I went all-in with the writing, and “retired” from guiding. About ten years ago, I realized I didn’t have time for both. For several years, I split my time in Europe between writing guidebooks and guiding our Best of Eastern Europe and Best of the Adriatic tours. Having all of my tour-guiding buddies in town has me nostalgic for my own days of guiding. We’ve been playing host to an invasion of more than a hundred tour guides from all over Europe and beyond, in town for our annual guide summit and reunion - 10 solid days of strategy sessions, business meetings, reconnecting with tour members, and, of course, parties. It has been a frantic week here at the Rick Steves’ Europe home office in Edmonds, Washington.
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