AT#294 - Travel to Spain's Canary Islands

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2011

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere.com about his recent trip to the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands are tropical volcanic islands that are part of Spain but are located off the coast of Northwestern Africa.They are not named after birds. The first thing that struck me when I got off the plane was how much the weather was like Hawaii and I have heard a lot of people call it Europe's Hawaii. It is a part of Spain. There are two provinces that constitute the Canary Islands. One with its capital on Grand Canaria Island and the other on the island of Tenerife. Columbus's last stop over was in the Canary Islands. Each of the islands, and there are 7 main islands, have a very different character. 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.
0:10.4	Amateur Traveler episode 294.
0:14.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about going to some tropical volcanic islands
0:18.0	with a Spanish flare as we go to the canaries. Welcome to the The Bureau.
0:23.0	I got to sit in one more cafe.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.0	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
0:36.2	into this week's interview, I do have three news stories for you. In the first
0:40.3	one Cathay Pacific has had to put off an ad campaign that they had planned
0:46.0	because of a scandal that has occurred in a Chinese language newspapers where photos of
0:50.6	flight crews engaging in sexual acts were published online. They put off the
0:54.8	ad campaign because the tagline was, Meet the team who go the extra mile to make you feel
0:59.6	special. And then speaking of special, there was a flight recently that had an unusual occurrence.
1:05.0	Flight 223 departed from Boston on its way to LAX
1:10.0	when there was a woman who had a medical emergency and so they had to divert and land in Louisville
1:16.1	After three hours in the ground they took off in Louisville without that passenger who'd been taken off
1:20.9	But there was an odd bump as they took off, and the Louisville Airport officials
1:25.1	told the planes crew that one of their tires was still on the runway, and so they had to make a second emergency landing this time at
1:35.6	L.E. X. That is a bad travel day. And then speaking of what could have been a
1:41.0	really bad travel day and is probably a really bad idea, a
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