The Amateur Traveler talkes to Heather from “heather on her Travels” about her recent trip to Valencia Spain. Hear about the modern city of arts and sciences, the old quarter and the [...]

Don’t do the math. I just woke up in my hotel room in London when the alarm went off at 8:00 AM after flying in last night. My watch says it is [...]

Visit Como in Italy with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the memorial to the victims of fascism, the funicular and the cathedral. click here to download (iPod) click here to download [...]

It is a rare thing for a U.S. Ambassador to write an open letter to travelers urging them to consider visiting a country, but that is what the US ambassador to Kenya, [...]

If you have every had the experience, as I had, of arguing with a ticket agent in JFK for 15 minutes that he is about to send you bags to SJO (San [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to twenty something vagabond Matt Kepnes (Nomadic Matt) about his trip to the less visited Western part of Australia. Hear about swimming with porpoises in out of the [...]

As someone who is 6 foot 3 inches tall but too cheap to buy a first or business class airline ticket i was very interested to read an article on GeekAbout.com for [...]

According to the Tampa Bay News Channel 10 (heard via Travelography) there might be something worse than having the airline lose your luggage. Oldsmar, Florida— Barbara Blewitt loves to travel and purchased [...]

In these days of $4 a gallon gasoline and sky high jet fuel costs airlines are always looking for ways to save on fuel. According to USA Today, some of the methods [...]

MSN had a great article from the stranger side of travel called 10 wacky complaints about air travel. You might be surprised what people complain about. My favorite complaint was this one: [...]