Amateur Traveler podcast Amateur Traveler podcast The Amateur Traveler Podcast is a travel podcast nad blog for people who love to travel. It focuses on travel stories with a dash of travel news, travel tips and travel resources. Season with humor and serve weekly. Articles
Video Episode 20 - Istanbul, Turkey - Topkap? Palace
2007-08-16 00:00:00 Visit Istanbul , Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: The Topkap? Palace is the old Ottoman imperial palace in Istanbul. It was built in 1459 by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and was the seat of power for the Ottoman empire for almost 400 years. Show Notes map for episode showing Galata Tower and Topkap? Palace Istanbul Beyo?lu Galata Tower Topkap? Palace Mehmed the Conqueror ... More About: Video , Episode
Episode 101 - The French Riviera (Nice, Cannes, Antibes) and Monaco
2007-08-13 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler joins Chris on his recent trip to Europe. This episode focuses on the French Riviera - Nice , Cannes , Antibes and on Monaco. Learn about the beaches, food, fashion. This episode also talks about car rental and staying in apartments. News Flying more stressful than knifepoint mugging? Lingerie Show at 30,000 Feet Saudis might take Bibles from ... More About: Episode
Episode 100 - Rothenberg Germany, Zurich and Interlaken Swizterland
2007-08-06 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler joins Chris on his recent trip to Europe. This episode focuses on Roth enburg, Germ any and Zurich and Interlaken, Swizterland. In Zurich Chris and his travel companions went to Züri Fächt which is a festival which only happens every 3 years. This show also features trip planning tips like booking an “open jaw” ... More About: Episode , Lake
Europe Trip diary
2007-08-06 00:00:00 Here is the my collected trip Journal from my recent trip to Europe . The trip covered 15 days and 4 countries. day 1 - Rothenberg, Germany day 2 - Rothenberg day 3 - Zurich, Swizterland day 4 - Zurich - Zueri Faescht day 5 - Grindelwald day 6 - Grindelwald day 7 - the road to Nice, France day 8 - Nice and ... More About: Diary , Trip , Rope
Amateur Traveler on PodFinder
2007-08-03 00:00:00 The Amat eur Traveler was featured on a recent version of Podfinder which seems to have come back from hiatus. I am glad to see it back as I have found it to be a good source of podcasts to listen to.
Video Episode 19 - Istanbul, Turkey - Hagia Sophia
2007-08-03 00:00:00 Visit Istanbul , Turkey with the Amateur Traveler: Hagia Sophia is a former basilica, later a mosque, now a museum. It dominated the Constantinople/Istanbul skyline for centuries and was the largest cathedral in the world for over 1000 years. Also visit the Basilica Cistern and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. Show Notes Walls of Constantinople Basilica Cistern Sultan Ahmed Mosque ... More About: Video , Episode
Day trips from Krakow
2007-08-03 00:00:00 Would you visit Krakow without seeing Auschwitz? It's certainly an important part of 20th century history; one that shouldn't be forgotten. In this post, Craig Martin is going to show the slightly more adventurous traveller how to visit Auschwitz for less than half the price of organised tours.
American Airlines Admirals Club in San Jose
2007-07-31 00:00:00 I always like to give credit for good acts, and with the situation on most airlines today, this was very nice to see. Flying home from a business trip to the San Jose , CA area, I was waiting for my flight back to Boston. There were several soldiers in uniform, waiting for a flight back to ... More About: Airlines , American , Club , Mira
Nominated for a Podcast Award
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Thanks to all of you, the show was just nominated for a Podcast Award as the best travel podcast. Voting will open on July 28th and close August 11th. Podcast Awards More About: Nate , Mina , Nominated
Living in Xinjiang?Your Guide to China?s Wild West
2007-07-29 00:00:00 by Casandra Tian If you tell your friends that you are moving to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, you are probably going to get a lot of blank looks. Once you tell them that it is in China , the next question that you get is invariably whether or not it is close to Beijing or Shanghai. Living ... More About: Wild , West , Guide
Episode 99 - Malaysia
2007-07-29 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks to photographer Will about his recent walk about in Mala y sia . Besides goinng to K.L. (Kuala Lumpur), what is there to see off the beaten track in Malays ia. Learn about fishing villages, indigenous people, bus service, street food, night markets and of course, beautiful beaches. Will also talks about a side trip ... More About: Episode
Europe - day 4 - Zurich - Zueri Faescht
2007-07-29 00:00:00 When we last saw Zurich it had been trashed. There was trash everywhere with bottles and broken bottles in the street. Someone had been hard at work between 5am and 10am when the first of our group ventured out in search of coffee (Starbucks) because the streets were now clean. I got up at ... More About: Europe , Rope
Europe - day 14 - Lake Como
2007-07-29 00:00:00 We enjoyed the nice breakfast at the hotel and then walked to the ferry. We took the ferry to Belaggio. They load and unload the ferries very quickly including the passengers and 7-8 cars, trucks ad buses. Belaggio is pretty but it was the shopping that captivated the ladies who picked up a umber of ... More About: Europe , Como , Lake , Rope
Europe - day 13 - to Lake Como
2007-07-29 00:00:00 We got up and grabbed breakfast at the same internet cafe as yesterday. Given our communications problems yesterday I was surprised we did not get coffee to go today when we wanted to stay. I used the internet to get directions for Liz and Danna’s hostel in Genova. The hostel is located at the top ... More About: Europe , Como , Lake , Rope
Europe - day 12 - the Cinque Terra
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Their was no breakfast offered at our hotel today (despite rumors to that effect). It is a very small hotel with only 5 rooms which seem recently furnished even if the two bathrooms are down the hall. Most of the shops were closed for Sunday morning but we found an internet cafe that was open. ... More About: Europe , Terra , Rope
Europe - day 11 - to the Cinque Terra
2007-07-29 00:00:00 We turned back in our keys to the apartment and got our security deposit back. We then dropped the girls at their hostel in Nice. This took some navigational improvisation because of all the construction that is happening in Nice as they put in a new trolley tracks. We could not always turn where the ... More About: Europe , Terra , Rope
Europe - day 10 - Nice and Antibes
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Our destination today was Antibes which is west along the coast but not as far as Cannes. But, the gravitational pull seemed to be particularly strong in Nice this morning as we did not get out of the apartment until about noon. We bought our 5 croissants, 5 pan au chocolat and a small baguette ... More About: Europe , Rope
Europe - day 9 - Nice and Cannes
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Our task this morning was to do laundry. We pack light so we don’t carry enough clothes for a 16 day trip. We had asked the women who we rented the apartment from where the nearest laundry was but that led us to a ful service laundry which would be too expensive, but the women ... More About: Europe , Cannes , Nice , Rope
Europe - day 8 - Nice and Monaco
2007-07-29 00:00:00 We got up and walked 25 minutes back to our friend’s hotel. The girls stole Paul away and the 3 decided to skip Mona co and stay in Nice . The 6 adults walked to the train station to catch a train to Monaco as we had heard that parking there would be harder than driving there. ... More About: Europe , Rope
Europe - day 7 - the road to Nice
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Today was our longest drive from Grindelwald to Nice , France. We took a longer route through Lausanne to meet a friend Kristy and her mother Donna for lunch. Donna had grown up in our area, graduated from the same high school as Liz and Danna and even had one teacher in common. Kristy had grown ... More About: Europe , Road , The Road , Rope
Europe - day 6 - Grindelwald
2007-07-29 00:00:00 Rain, rain and more rain greeted us today. We decided to go back to Interlaken for the morning in hope that the weather would improve. Joan, Liz and Danna went shopping while Kevin, Susan and I drove around one of the two lakes that Interlaken is “inter”. We drove around the Thunzee annd stopped at ... More About: Europe , Wald , Grind , Grin , Rope
Europe - day 5 - Grindelwald
2007-07-29 00:00:00 We drove from Zurich to Grin d elwald near Interlaken after breakfast. We tried to stop in Luzern for lunch to see some of that city also since we were driving around, but we had rain and lightning when we got there and decided that we would have to come back to see that city. It looked ... More About: Europe , Wald , Rope
Europe - day 15 - Lake Como to Melano
2007-07-29 00:00:00 This was the last day of the trip except for travel. At least 4 of us had been to Melano before so we decided not to try and go into the city and do the shopping, duomo, etc. Instead we drove to Como at the south western corner of the lake. Como is pretty city ... More About: Europe , Elan , Lake , Elano
The guidebook is your friend
2007-07-25 00:00:00 by Craig Martin The G gantija temples on Malta are a little-known gem: the world’s oldest standing stone structures, built 500 years before the pyramids were a spark in a Pharoah’s eye. There isn’t much infrastructure; just a ticket booth and a standalone audioguide. We only had a couple of problems on our first visit: one was ... More About: Friend , Guid
Episode 98 - The Netherlands and Belgium
2007-07-22 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks to Daniel Perez of the Gamer Traveler about his trip to the Netherlands and Belgium : Brussels, Bruges, Amsterdam and Delft. Daniel talks about the beauty of the low countries, how he did a self-guided tour using a package, history, art, beer and why the Nethernlands and Belgium in particular should be ... More About: Episode , The Netherlands
Next Episode
2007-07-18 00:00:00 It looks like the next episode may not go up until this weekend after I get back. It took me a while to find the 6 hours or so that it takes me to finish the recording and editing and I have not finished assembling the podcast yet (addig pictures and links). I have not ... More About: Episode , Next Episode
Europe trip diary - day 1 - Rothenberg
2007-07-10 00:00:00 The start of our trip was relatively uneventful (except that my good camera died the morning of the trip). Our plane was not full so we had some time to spread out. Of our party of six (My wife Joan, daughter Liz, Liz’s friend Danna and our friends Susan and Kevin) I was the only ... More About: Europe , Diary , Trip , Roth , Berg
Europe trip diary - day 2 - Rothenberg
2007-07-10 00:00:00 The breakfast at our hotel was marvelous. They had meats, cheeses, cereal, fruit, juice, coffee, tea, pastries, bread, and much more. The hotel room was also very nice. It was a quad room with lots of space and very light and clean. I love clean cozy German hotel rooms with big fluffy white duvets. The ... More About: Europe , Diary , Trip , Roth , Berg
Europe trip diary - day 3 - Zurich
2007-07-10 00:00:00 We drove from Rothenberg to Zurich. We had been informed that we needed to stop and get a sticker at the Swiss border to allow us to use the roads. The fine for failing to do so is 100 Francs but there was no information at the border that you needed to stop. I accidently ... More About: Europe , Diary , Trip , Rope
Episode 97 - The Seychelles (and Dubai)
More articles from this author:2007-07-02 00:00:00 The Amateur Traveler talks to Kadri and Ozlem (from Istanbul) about their recent honeymoon to the Seychelles off the coast of Africa. They stopped on the way in Dubai and learned something about Dubai and its red tape. Learn why they say that the Seychelles is a romantic destination. Learn how to get around, ... More About: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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