AT#197 - Travel to Sicily in Italy

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2009

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from the Italy Beyond the Obvious blog about Sicily. Madeline was a tour guide for a number of years in Italy and says that Sicily is where the tour guides vacation. This beautiful island is more intense than the rest of Italy but it is also rich in culture and history. It is sometimes an assault on the sense says Madeline who honeymooned on the island. Madeline leads us in a trip circumnavigating the island from Messina to Palermo with stops in Taormina , Siracuse, Agrigento, Villa del Casale, Erice and Palermo. We take a side trip to climb the volcano at Stromboli and we touch on the many influences on the history of Sicily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo. The Amateur Traveler episode 197.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler goes to beautiful but intense Sicily. to see one more cathedral
0:23.0	in one more cafe
0:26.1	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.3	but maybe not maybe not today welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.5	today's interview I do have three new stories for you. The first one in
0:40.8	London officials are trying to teach people not to leave valuables in their
0:45.2	car so they're having the police go to unlock cars and steal stuff from them.
0:51.6	I'm sure that'll go just fine. A British tourist whose knowledge of French
0:56.7	was a little sketchy ended up spending the night in the Hotel de Ville which
1:02.2	though it looks like hotel is the French word for city
1:04.9	hall she walked into city hall looking for a restroom and while she was there
1:08.6	they finished the business and locked the doors with her inside.
1:13.0	Just a reason why you should study a little of the language before you go.
1:17.1	And then speaking of the French, if you are rescued by the French government
1:21.9	from a war zone or some other place where you probably didn't have
1:25.3	any business going, they're going to charge you. It seems fair enough to me. For links to those
1:31.3	news stories as well as other news stories check out the show
1:34.0	notes at amateur traveler.com. Remember if you're a travel news junkie check
1:38.6	out the new podcast This Week in Travel at This Week in Travel.com.
1:44.0	I'd like to welcome Madeline Jawor,
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