AT#171 - Travel to Ukraine

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jessica from Williamsburg Virgina who traveled last Summer to the Ukraine with an ethnomusicologist from Villiage Harmony to learn how to sing Ukrainian folk music. Jessica travelled both to larger cities like the capital Kiev and Ivano-Frankivsk and small country villages. She also journeyed into the Carpathian mountains on the Romanian border. Jessica relates some of the stories about the people she met, the food they ate and scary public bathrooms. Learn why you should not whistle indoors or give someone a dozen roses in the Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go.
0:07.0	Looking real good in my passport photo.
0:10.0	Amateur Traveler, episode 171. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to the Ukraine.
0:18.0	Here about the other side of Carpathian Mountains, the food, the culture, and especially some of the music. the Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:37.0	today's interview I just have one news item for you. I'm recording this
0:40.4	episode fairly back-to-back with the last one so I don't have a lot of
0:44.2	news stories but I did want to call your attention to one that I picked up. I went to
0:49.0	the Bay Area Travel Show this weekend which is something I've done the last couple years.
0:54.2	And I did get a chance to hear Rick Steve's Speak, who is an author of numerous Guidebooks, runs
1:00.1	a tour company, as well as doing a PBS series.
1:03.5	I don't know if you've had a chance to hear him.
1:04.9	He is an engaging speaker and I did put up on blog.
1:08.9	amateur traveler.com, the introduction to his talk where he talks about how he went from being a piano
1:15.3	teacher to being a tour operator. So that's something I thought you might be
1:19.4	interested in. blog dot amateurer.com.
1:30.0	I'd like to welcome to the show Jessica who's coming to us from Williamsburg, Virginia, and come to talk to us about the Ukraine.
1:32.0	Jessica, welcome to the show us about the Ukraine.
1:32.5	Jessica, welcome to the show.
1:34.0	Thanks so much.
1:35.0	Jessica, why the Ukraine?
1:37.0	That's a very rare destination.
1:39.0	Why did you go to the Ukraine?
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