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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#166 - Travel to Scotland

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2008

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Eden (an ambassador for Macallan Whiskey) about his home country of Scotland. Eden lays out a tour for Amateur Traveler listeners that starts in Edinburgh with its castle, royal mile and pubs and continues up to Saint Andrews (the home of golf) and the castles of Perthshire. We make sure to stop on the Whiskey trail of Speyside before continuing to the rugged countryside of the highlands. We also talk about special events, famous scotsmen and hagis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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I got my bags packed on a roll.

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I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.

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Looking real good in my passport photo.

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The Amateur Traveler episode 166. Today the amateur traveler goes to Scotland.

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We'll be talking about a number of things including golf and haggis and whiskey.

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Today the amateur traveler. and Whiskey, today in the Amateur Traveler.

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I know that I should be heading home,

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but maybe not, maybe not, not to the Day.

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Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into

0:36.7

today's interview I actually have a number of news stories this was a big news

0:40.1

rich week. The first one is there's a new book out by Peter Greenberg that he's

0:44.5

getting a lot of flack for because it's about all the places you should not go.

0:49.6

The book is called Don't Go There. And as you can imagine, when your favorite location makes that list,

0:56.0

there's a little bit of outrage.

0:58.0

Then the next story is also controversial,

1:01.0

and I'm going to have to say a little sad.

1:03.2

Apparently there is starting to be a tourism industry

1:06.8

around suicide in Switzerland because it is legal for assisted suicide in Switzerland, there's a story of someone who went to Switzerland to kill themselves.

1:18.0

And speaking of controversial, there's a married couple that is suing United because United served them drinks, which led to them becoming drunk and the man beating the wife.

1:30.0

So maybe that's something that would be the airline's fault.

1:35.0

Or maybe he's an idiot.

1:37.0

Among the things you never want to hear your airline pilots say is,

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