I got my bags back on the road heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 326. Today the amateur traveler talks about beer and

medieval cities and more beer as we go to Belgium. 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 one is

a little disconcerting but also good news because the CIA thwarted

Al Qaeda again this week, but it thwarted them with a second attempt to do an underwear bomber

because that was so cool the first time. And speaking of

uncool things a passenger was woken up by a flight attendant and apparently the

flight attendant rolled up a magazine and tapped him on the knee with it so of course he is suing. I'll see your rolled up magazine and match you with a

frivolous lawsuit. Probably our worst story of the day though is

there is a child that is missing in England whose

picture has been everywhere as you might imagine and for some reason her

picture this is a toddler showed up in an advertisement promoting

holidays in Portugal. The only thing I can think of is they were sitting there

one day at breakfast saying I'd like a picture of a cute toddler, hey look there's one on the milk

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

I'd like to welcome back to the show Sam Oppenheim who's come to talk to us about

Belgium Sam welcome back to the show.

Thank you Chris it's a pleasure to be back again and I say say back to the show, for those of you who are not long-time listeners, you may not know.

He's been on the show.

We just decided he's been on four times, talking about trekking in the Himalayas in northern India, going to Cuba, going

to Lao and going to Bali.

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