AT#288 - Travel to Rome with Andy Steves

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2011

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Andy Steves about Rome, Italy. Andy talks about practical issues like how to get into and around Rome, how to connect to the Rome of the Roman Empire (the Coloseum, Forum and Circus Maximus, Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, Pantheon). He also talks about a tour of the Sistine Chapel without all the crowds and not easy to do. Andy also gives us his favorite spots from Renaissance Rome like the Galleria Borghese and how to get under Saint Peter's to the excavation of older Saint Peter's. Follow Andy to places where you can meet modern Romans on your evening passeggiata to Campo di Fiori, Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps. And then meet one of his favorite Romans who runs a hang out for students near the Pantheon.Andy is the son of travel author and tour guide operator Rick Steves and is following in his father's footsteps running weekend tours for students studying in Europe. 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.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 288. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about the forum, the
0:17.1	Coliseum, and the Passadiata as we return to Rome, Italy. I'm going to Rome. I've got a city one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the day.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into the
0:36.3	interview I do have three news stories and one apology. The first the
0:39.4	apology. For those of you who listened to the show when it first came out last week, you may have missed the first few minutes because something went wrong with the recording.
0:49.0	I re-recorded that and re-released it in case you missed the three news stories and the announcement that
0:53.2	that was the sixth anniversary episode of the amateur traveler. And then in news
0:57.5	stories your Atlas and your Globe are out of date because there is a new country.
1:01.6	South Sudan has finally received its independence
1:05.3	from Sudan and is the newest country in the world. And then two weird stories about airplane travel.
1:11.4	One, a woman was escorted off a U.S. Air flight. Her story
1:14.9	is she was escorted off the flight for taking a photo of an employee's name tag because she
1:22.1	said the employee was being rude to her.
1:24.1	The US Airways story was that she was being disruptive.
1:27.0	And then speaking of disruptive passengers, Rock Diaz, an American Airlines passenger,
1:31.9	tried to impersonate a soldier to get into first class.
1:35.0	This is an easy way to solve this problem to send him to Afghanistan.
1:38.8	For links to all three of those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com.
1:43.0	I'd like to welcome the show Andy Steves who's coming to us from weekend adventures.
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