AT#204 - Travel to Iceland

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2009

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Dave Grenewetzki about his recent trip to Iceland. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Icelandic economy Dave and his family drove the ring road around Iceland and visited places with great names like the waterfalls Svartifoss, Seljalandsfoss, Skogafoss and Gulfoss, Lake Myvatn and the dark castles of Dimmuborgir, the glacial lagoon of Jokulsarlon, the geysers of Geysir and Strokkur, the geothermal activity of Namaskard pass, the university town of Akureyri, the hobbit-like town of Glaumbaer. They went bird watching at Ingolfshofdi, took in the baths at the Blue Lagoon, took the free welcome walking tour of Reykjavik with Jonas, zigzagged between icebergs, hiked to Thingvellir, and took in the tourist attraction of the Midlina bridge. 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. Looking real good
0:08.7	in my passport photo.
0:11.7	Amateur Traveler episode 204.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about icebergs and geysers and habit houses as we go to Iceland. Welcome to the
0:23.0	I sit in one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:37.2	today's interview I do have three news stories for you. The first one that
0:41.9	scanner that we've talked about for a while that the FAA and
0:46.5	other security companies are going to roll out that's going to virtually undress you,
0:50.6	has started to hit airports. It showed up in Manchester Airport
0:54.6	at least and expected in an airport near you. The second one and this is a
0:59.2	stranger one, Northwest Flight 188 from San Diego overshot the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport by 150 miles because the pilots were distracted.
1:15.3	I don't know.
1:15.9	I don't understand it either.
1:17.4	An interesting story.
1:18.4	We'll see how that develops.
1:20.2	And the third one, there's a story coming out of Australia that people who submit
1:24.8	reviews for hotels and restaurants on sites like TripAdvisor might be sued
1:31.5	or on Twitter and so you might at least be careful about might be
1:34.0	careful about what you say and certainly make sure it's true
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