May 13
Visit Como in Italy with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the memorial to the victims of fascism, the funicular and the cathedral.
Popularity: 3% [?]
May 10
The Amateur Traveler talks to twenty something vagabond Matt Kepnes about his trip to the less visited Western part of Australia. Hear about swimming with porpoises in out of the way 50 person towns, Perth, back packer buses, Uluru and Karijini National Park.
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You Are Complaining About What??
Airlines Fly Slower, Save Gas
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Popularity: 5% [?]
May 03
The Amateur Traveler talks to Barbara Egbert, her husband Gary and daughter Mary. Barbara is the author of “Zero Days: The Real Life Adventure of Captain Bligh, Nellie Bly, and 10-year-old Scrambler on the Pacific Crest Trail”. The book is about their adventure with then 10-year-old Mary who became the youngest through hiker on the 2500 mile long Pacific Crest Trail.
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Eat for Free at Walt Disney World
Airline: “Sorry, Your Kid is not Dead”
Royal Caribbean Plans a Floating Park
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Popularity: 10% [?]
Apr 26
The Amateur Traveler talks to Friedel from TravellingTwo.com about a bike trip around the world. This episode focuses on the most hospitable country that have come to so far: Iran. Learn about ancient ruins, Tehran picnics, where to find kabobs and how to find something else when you get tired of them.
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2007 - No Deaths on Scheduled U.S. Commercial Flights
Think Israel, Think Bikinis?
“The 10 best podcasts on the Internet” includes the Amateur Traveler
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Popularity: 15% [?]
Apr 25
Visit Lake Como in Italy with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the lovely towns of Verenna, Bellaggio and the ferry ride between them.
Popularity: 17% [?]
Apr 22
Best Life Magazine, a men’s magazine, just named a list of the “The 10 best podcasts on the Internet“.
In addition to two shows from NPR, the TED conference, the Economist, they named the Amateur Traveler. Cool.
Chris Christensen created “Amateur Traveler,” a weekly hour-long audio and video podcast, to keep you as far away from tourists wearing jean shorts and Big Johnson T-shirts as possible. Each episode explores world destinations with guidebook writers, journalists, and veteran nomads. You’ll learn the best place to find lobster paella in Barcelona, how to motorbike through India, and where to go for a far-flung family vacation. Whet your wanderlust by scrolling through the archive of more than 125 past broadcasts.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Apr 19
The Amateur Traveler talks to Amanda Castleman about a trip to the less explored parts of Croatia: Trogir, Plitvice Lakes, Mount Medvednica, Marija Bistrica, Krapina.
News
Airlines Ground Flights - 100,000+ Travelers Effected
Another Airline Down - Skybus Closes
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Popularity: 21% [?]
Apr 12
Elizabeth who is a Walt DisneyWorld VIP tour guide and was our guest for Episode 131 - Walt Disney World joins us for the 2nd live episode where we take questions, reminisce and generally talk about both Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Popularity: 21% [?]
Apr 05
The Amateur Traveler talks to Hoylen about a recent trip to Tunisia. Hear about the berber and Carthaginian ruins, the medina, the dessert landscapes and also some of the locations used to film Star Wars.
News
Aloha Airways - Aloha Means Goodbye
Air Travel A La Carte
Heathrow Headaches
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Popularity: 26% [?]
Apr 02
Visit the Cinque Terra on the Italian Coast with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the northern most three towns (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia) of the five picturesque towns of Italy’s Cinque Terra National Park.
Popularity: 33% [?]
