Rick Steves Spring Travel Festival March 11, 2006

I heard about this on Weekday this morning on KUOW - seems it's mostly free. Full details on ricksteves.com. Description from the site:

Our Spring Travel Festival is an all day travel-teach-a-thon! Join us in downtown Edmonds on Saturday, March 11th. Rick Steves will give three lectures, packed with his latest European travel tips, insights and discoveries. In the morning he'll offer his popular European Travel Skills class ? the ideal way to jump-start your 2006 travel plans. In the afternoon, he'll share his latest tips on Great Britain and cover his favorite destination Italy.

Throughout the day, our top guides and speakers will give presentations on seven popular travel topics, including Packing Light, France, Ireland, Rail Skills, Eastern Europe, Spain & Portugal and Germany-Austria-Switzerland.

On top of all this, you'll save 20% on our entire stock of travel bags, accessories, guidebooks, maps and DVDs ? Saturday, March 11th only ? in our Edmonds Travel Center (in-store only, not available online). It's our biggest sale of the year!