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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Author Mark Adams reveals four possible Mediterranean locations where the legendary lost city of Atlantis could have been. The former U-S Ambassador to Switzerland tells us what it's like representing American interests in a country known for its neutrality. Plus, a longtime resident of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula describes what to look for when you venture out beyond Cancun.
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0:00.0 | A former US ambassador to Switzerland explains their reputation for being a neutral country. |
0:06.4 | Very few people get picked to be the referee, and so there's not actually a deep understanding |
0:11.8 | of what neutrality means. |
0:13.8 | In just a bit, Susie Lavigne shares her view from the embassy with us. |
0:18.2 | Mexico is famous for its attractive coastlines. |
0:21.2 | Ellen Fields tells us why she enjoys the Yucatan Peninsula. |
0:25.1 | In the Midwest of Cancun, to encounter tropical wildlife, |
0:28.2 | Mayan villages, ancient temples, and otherworldly swimming halls called cenotes. |
0:33.4 | It's so clear sometimes it's almost like floating in air, you know, it's just beautiful. |
0:38.4 | People have been speculating about the lost land of Atlantis, ever since the ancient Greeks. |
0:43.2 | Anyone who writes about Atlantis, and there are all kinds of crazy ideas out there and |
0:48.0 | half crazy ideas, it's all traced back to Plato. |
0:51.3 | Arthur Mark Adams reveals where he went to find it. |
0:54.6 | It's just ahead on Travel Frick Steams. |
1:01.7 | Ever since Plato, people have been fascinated by tales of a lost city of Atlantis. |
1:07.1 | Buried somewhere off the shores of the old world, |
1:09.8 | Mark Adams traveled to Greece, Malta, Morocco, and southern Spain |
1:13.6 | to investigate competing claims for where Atlantis may have been. |
1:18.0 | He tells us what he found in just a bit. |
1:20.7 | And a former American ambassador to Switzerland |
1:23.2 | takes us behind the embassy doors to find out what diplomats do to represent the US overseas. |
1:29.4 | Let's start today's Travel Frick Steams on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. |
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