Synopsis
Amateur Traveler is an award winning audio travel show that focuses primarily on the question: "where should you go next and what should you see, do and eat there?". Amateur Traveler won its creator Chris Christensen a Travel+Leisure SMITTY award as the best independent travel journalist and a Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Award. It is also used to teach English at Oxford University.
Episodes
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AT#377 - Travel to South Australia
29/06/2013 Duration: 31minHear about travel to South Australia as the Amateur Traveler alks to Dave and Deb from ThePlanetD.com about their recent trip down under. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#376 - Travel to Western Norway
22/06/2013 Duration: 41minHear about travel to Oslo and Western Norway as the Amateur Traveler talks to Øystein about his native Norway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#375 Travel to Amsterdam in the Netherlands
15/06/2013 Duration: 53minHear about travel to Amsterdam as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Erik Smith from onmyfeetorinmymind.com. Erik returned to Amsterdam for the seventh or eighth time recently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#374 - Travel to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
08/06/2013 Duration: 46minHear about travel to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jodi Ettenberg from legalnomads.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#373 Travel to Slovenia
25/05/2013 Duration: 34minHear about travel to Slovenia as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Michael Soncina about his visit to the country. The country is independent, beautiful and deserves to see more tourists than it gets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#372 - Travel to Stockholm, Sweden
18/05/2013 Duration: 45minHear about travel to Stockholm, Sweden as the Amateur Traveler talks to Malin from HauteCompass.com about Sweden's beautiful capital city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#371 - Travel to Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe, Zambia)
11/05/2013 Duration: 27minHear about travel to Victoria Falls as the Amateur Traveler talks to Nir Ben-Dov about his trip to this spectacular falls on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia. This was Nir’s second trip and his wife’s first trip from their home in Israel to this famed set of falls in southern Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#370 - Travel to Fort Worth, Texas
04/05/2013 Duration: 35minHear about travel to Fort Worth, Texas as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Jason Hull about Fort Worth Texas the "City of Cowboys and Culture". Sometimes over shadowed by it's neighbor Dallas Jason shows us why Fort Worth is worth a visit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#369 - Travel to Bucharest, Romania
27/04/2013 Duration: 35minHear about travel to Bucharest as the Amateur Traveler talks to Wandering Earl about visiting and living in that city. Earl calls Bucharest one of the most under-rated cities in all of Europe, certainly eastern Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#368 - Travel to Extremadura, Spain
20/04/2013 Duration: 33minHear about travel to Extremadura in Spain as the Amateur Traveler talks to Sam from indefiniteadventure.com about living and working there. Extremadura is a lesser known region in southwest Spain on the border with Portugal and adjacent to Andalusia, Madrid and Castilla. Sam lived in the city of Medira for 3 months teaching English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#367 - Travel to Toulouse, France
13/04/2013 Duration: 27minThe Amateur Traveler talks to Benny the Irish Polyglot about Toulouse, France. Benny lived in the city for 3 months to work on his French. He was drawn to the University city culture but fell in love with the "pink" city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#366 - Travel to Vanuatu
06/04/2013 Duration: 53minHear about travel to Vanuatu as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Chris Willis who comes back on the show to talk about a recent trip to the remote, tropical paradise of Vanuatu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#365 - Travel to the South Side of Chicago, Illinois
30/03/2013 Duration: 47minHear about travel to the South Side of Chicago as the Amateur Traveler talks to Amy Bugbee, author of "Suffering and Celebration of Life in America", about her hometown, the South Side of Chicago. The South Side of Chicago is more than just the White Sox and the stock yards just as Chicago pizza is more than just deep dish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#364 - Travel to Japan
23/03/2013 Duration: 33minHear about travel to Japan on the Amateur Traveler as I relate stories from my recent trip to Tokyo, the ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto, the castle at Hikone, the shrines and temples of Nikko and Kamakura. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#363 - Travel to Puerto Rico
16/03/2013 Duration: 40minHear about travel to Puerto Rico as the Amateur Traveler talks to Kaleb Garcia about his home country of Puerto Rico. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory in the Caribbean with its own culture, language (Spanish), history and food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#362 - Travel to The Guianas - French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana
09/03/2013 Duration: 31minHear about travel to the Guianas (French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana) as the Amateur Traveler talks to Marcello Arrambide from wanderingtrader.com about his recent trip to these three South American countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#361 - Travel to North Korea
02/03/2013 Duration: 32minHear about travel to North Korea as the Amateur Traveler talks to Matt from England about his recent trip to this closed and insular country. This may be one of the most unusual episodes of the Amateur Traveler as this may be one of the more unusual countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#360 - Volunteer Travel in Uganda
23/02/2013 Duration: 41minHear about volunteer travel in Uganda as the Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#359 - Travel to London, England part 2
16/02/2013 Duration: 38minHear about travel to London as the Amateur Traveler talks to Amber from americantourguideinlondon.com. In this second part of a two part episode on London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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AT#358 - Travel to Perth, Australia
09/02/2013 Duration: 32minHear about travel to Perth, Australia as the Amateur Traveler talks to Carmen from double-barrelledtravel.com. Carmen grew up in Perth and lived for 21 years in this city on Australia’s Western shore. Perth is a beautiful city located where a river his the white sand beaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices