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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#217 - The Life of Adventure Travel Tour Guide

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from Italy Beyond the Obvious about life as a tour guide for an adventure travel company. Madeline was previously on the Amateur Traveler talking about Travel to Sicily. Madeline talks about her misconceptions about what being a tour guide would be like and the reality of keeping a group of people happy (and not lost). She guided hiking and biking tours primarily in Italy. What skills do you need to be a successful tour guide? It might not be what you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

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in my passport photo.

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Amateur Traveler episode 217. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 217.

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Today the Amateur Traveler takes a little departure and looks at being a tour guide, the

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fun, the joys and the headaches, today and the amateur traveler.

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I'm your

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I know that I should be heading home

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but maybe not, maybe not

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today.

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Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get

0:36.4

into this week's interview I do have two news stories for you and both of

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them talk about sleeping comfortably. In the first one, New Zealand Air is

0:44.8

announcing cuddle class, basically seats that fold flat and the foot rest comes up

0:49.8

so that two adults can sleep. Unfortunately, the row has three seats,

0:53.7

so you've got to kick out the middle person,

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but that'll be available in certain rows on their flights.

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I for one am looking forward to it,

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except when do you ever see a plane these days

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that has one seat empty?

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And the second one, a hotel in England has announced that they're going to have a service where

1:08.5

someone could warm your bed up for you. Wearing special all-in-one sleeper suits, they will come and roll around under the covers

1:16.4

of your bed until the temperature of the bed is approximately 20 to 24 degrees Celsius.

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