The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from the Italy Beyond the Obvious blog about Sicily. Madeline was a tour guide for a number of years in Italy and says that Sicily [...]

This picture is taken inside a hut made of mud, sticks and cow dung in a Maasai cultural boma in Tanzania just outside the Ngorogoro crater preserve. This is a man and [...]

At what point did this seem like a good idea? Police take items to teach safety Officials in a London borough said police have been instructed to remove valuables from unlocked cars [...]

I honestly thought when I bought the book Dear American Airlines that it was about the airline industry. I vaguely remembered hearing that the book was good but missed that this is [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Lisa who has lived as student in Uruguay on two different occasions about that small South American country. Lisa talks about the capital city of Montevideo where [...]

Before John Higham and his wife even had kids they decided that one day they would take a year off and travel the globe with their children. That exactly what they did [...]

A resort in San Diego is taking “no frills” to the extreme. California resort offers $19 ‘survivor’ package For their one-and-only family getaway this year, the Billingtons checked in to an upscale [...]

This is a transcript of an episode of the Amateur Traveler focusing on traveling to Venice and the Veneto in Italy. Travel to Bavaria and Southern Germany – Episode 188 More blogs [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Nick from Iowa about his stay on the remote tropical island of Niue in the South Pacific. Niue is a coral atoll which is affiliated with New [...]

Before the Bellagio was a hotel on the strip in Las Vegas it was this lovely town on Lake Como in northern Italy. We stayed in nearby Verenna and took the ferry [...]