AT#289 - Travel to Nigeria

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2011

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to David from London about his home country of Nigeria. David recommends, against the advice of others, that people who visit Nigeria visit the largest city which is Lagos. Lagos is the second most populous city in Africa after Cairo. David says “it’s chaotic, it’s crazy, it’s exuberant, it’s everything turned up to eleven, it’s the maddest place I’ve been. That is why you should go there. You’re not going to get a relaxing holiday going to Lagos. But if you want to see human life at the extreme, and I don’t mean extreme in a bad way, but just millions of people in a small place, everyone full of life, everyone exuberant, everyone seemingly happy, Lagos is the place to go”. 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. Amateur Traveler episode 289. Today the amateur traveler talks about the
0:15.6	color, the noise and the crowds as we go to Lagos Nigeria. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.8	into this week's interview I do have three news stories for you. The first one
0:40.9	is the TSA is again playing with can they improve the boarding procedure what they're planning on doing is expanding their secure flight pre-screening program
0:50.3	Basically this is where you trade in a lot of information about you for the ability to get on flights a little faster.
0:57.0	Speaking of airlines, there is some complaints about airlines these days in a list of 19 most hated companies in America from the Atlantic.
1:07.5	There are four airlines.
1:10.2	Coming in at number two most hated company in the US is Delta Airlines. Their satisfaction reading being
1:16.3	56 out of 100. And then a little bit behind them is US Airways coming in at number six united at number seven and American
1:26.0	Airlines at number eight so some things to work on there and then finally in probably
1:31.7	the weirdest new story we have this week there's some
1:34.4	possibility that North Dakota is not a state. Now I don't just mean that from
1:39.6	the point of view that North Dakota gets no love and is 50 out of 50 states in terms of tourism, but literally they
1:46.0	may have had an illegal constitution that is in conflict with the U.S. Constitution because of a problem as they created it and so some people
1:56.2	think that North Dakota is legally not a state.
2:01.2	For links to all those stories, check out the show notes at amateur traveler.com.
2:05.0	I'd like to welcome the show David from London who is coming to talk to us about Nigeria.
2:11.0	David, welcome to the show.
2:12.9	Thank you.
2:14.2	And I say from London, but you are originally from Nigeria.
2:18.0	Yes, yes, I am from Nigeria.
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