This special edition of Monday Night Travel sets up Rick’s brand-new, two-hour public television special, Europe Awaits — which airs on public television across the USA the same evening. (Tonight’s MNT will be just 60 minutes long in hopes that you can catch the show on TV, check your local listings). Our theme: places that are good for your soul to visit post-COVID — destinations where you can connect with charming cultures and engrossing nature on your own terms. Visiting all different destinations but in the same countries featured in the TV special, Rick will explain the post-COVID appeal of these places: Santorini, with its dramatic white-washed towns perched cliff-side as if designed to catch the sunset; Mount Etna, where you can climb an active volcano and witness the power of nature; Nazaré, where you can "go local," Portuguese-style, in the home of the world’s biggest and most prized surf; the hill towns of Italy, where you can find that perfect corner to keep your head above the flood of the 21st century; and Bucharest, Romania’s bold and virtually unknown capital city.

Watch this playlist along with Rick and hear his behind-the-scenes commentary HERE.