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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 270. Today the Amateur Traveler episode 270. Today the amateur traveler talks about parks, pizza, and

Coney Island as we go to Brooklyn, New York. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get

into this week's interview, I do have three news stories for you. The first

new story is Trip Advisor, which happens to be my day job by the way, did a survey about family travel and one of the interesting things I thought that I saw in there is that 31% of people surveyed would shell out additional money to

sit in a child-free section of an airplane. So it'll be interesting to see if

some airline takes them up on that. And then speaking of surveys, Four Square did a study on the rudest cities in the world.

And their winning city is Manchester, UK, followed by El Paso, Texas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bloomington, Indiana, and Riverside, California.

And the way they determine that is based on the percentage of curse words used in check-in recommendations posted to the Four Square Service.

And then I'm sure many of you have been following what's been going on Egypt.

Egypt, now that it has calmed down a bit, trying to get tourists back and certainly for many

of you and it's too soon but one of the things that's interesting is that some of the

rates for Egypt are being cut by as much as 50%.

So at least for someone, it may be time to go back to Egypt.

For links to all those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

I'd like to welcome to the show Andrew Hickey who's coming to us from the

Brooklyn nomad and coming to talk to us about Brooklyn, New York.

Andrew, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris. Andrew is one of a series of recent people I've had on the show because I've invited them on because I would love to have Andrew on the show.

Andrew does some great travel blogging and we've had a chance to meet in New York a couple years ago.

And Andrew, why should someone come to Brooklyn?

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