According to guide book publisher Dorling Kindersley, Bristol is one of the top 10 cities to visit in 2009. Having lived in Bristol for the last 15 years, I already knew that ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jessica from Williamsburg Virgina who traveled last Summer to the Ukraine with an ethnomusicologist from Villiage Harmony to learn how to sing Ukrainian folk music. Jessica travelled ...

At first glance this photo might be a bit misleading. It looks like this car has hit one of the lions here in the Ngorogoro Crater in Tanzania. But instead it is ...

This video is the introduction of Rick Steves‘ talk at the Bay Area Travel Show. He was giving a talk about visiting Europe “through the backdoor” (connecting to the culture and not ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Sam about his recent trip to Cuba with his brother. Sam visited Havana and Trinadad. He reveled in the local music, the warmth of the people, the ...

The most interesting travel story of this week was definitely that more people will be paying attention from now on to that part of the safety demonstration where the flight attendant says ...

If you have seen pictures of Santorini (the Greeks who live there call it Fira) at the travel agency you could be excused if you thought it was too beautiful to be ...

One of the listeners of the Amateur Traveler sent me these travel tips. She has been a Peace Corp volunteer for two years and allowed me to share these tips anonymously. 1. ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to David Dougherty about his recent trip to the small country of Armenia. David talks about view of Mount Ararat (just over the border in Turkey), monasteries and ...

There once was a time when my wife was interested in going camping or at least willing to go camping with me. Our honeymoon was a camping trip to Acadia National Park ...