Tourists’ flight to wrong country A family who were bound for a week’s holiday in Lanzarote are back home after a check-in desk mix-up meant they caught a flight to Turkey instead. [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Nick about his adopted country of Ireland: hear about Dublin, Galway and Cork. Learn where you can find Irish history, hear about how Ireland is rapidly changing, [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jeremy about the island nation of Singapore. Here about colonial hotels, world war II history, pungent fruit, unique museums, why you should always carry an umbrella and [...]

Rape alert campaign on Greek beaches An anti-rape campaign has been launched by the [British] Foreign Office in resorts in Greece following alarm at the numbers of attacks on female British tourists. [...]

Visit Aruba with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows a sea kaiaking and snorkeling trip in Aruba. This was the first “real” video I shot with my under water video camera which [...]

How do you feed as many people as you will find on a large cruise ship like the MS Volendam from Holland America? The last time we were on the Voldendam we [...]

As the two actors Michael Elich and Christopher DuVal made a pass at each other with swords the audience was perhaps more nervous than usual. Stage fighting requires preparation but how do [...]

The tires spun but the car slowly lost all forward momentum and started sliding backwards back into the darkness. I put on the brakes and that slowed but did not stop the [...]

Here are some travel news stories that have caught my eye over the last couple of weeks: Cruise ship with 51 people on board grounds in Alaska Cruise West’s (Cruise West was [...]

I completely forgot to mention that as of July 9th the Amateur Traveler has been in operation for 3 years. Now please excuse me while I bake a cake.