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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#334 - Travel to Yorkshire, England

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2012

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Elspeth about her native Yorkshire in northern England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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in my passport photo.

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Amateur Traveler episode 334 today the Amateur Traveler episode 334. Today the amateur traveler talks about wall

0:16.2

towns, picturesque villages, and Vikings as we go to Yorkshire in Northern England. Welcome to the city one more cafe.

0:25.4

I know that I should be heading home,

0:28.8

but maybe not, maybe not to the day. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get

0:36.2

into this week's show I do have three news stories for you. In the first one

0:40.9

United made a costly mistake they advertised first-class airfare to

0:46.2

Hong Kong for frequent flyers for just $33 in taxes. It was a computer glitch. The problem is this is going to be the first major

0:56.9

test of a Department of Transportation's new consumer protection rules prohibiting airlines

1:02.4

from increasing the price after the

1:04.3

consumer completes the purchase. So will they have to eat the cost of those

1:09.0

fares or not is something that we'll just have to wait and see.

1:14.4

Meanwhile, in another United story,

1:16.8

more than 200 United passengers are back in the US

1:19.7

after a three-day delay in China

1:21.8

and a near mutiny. They were supposed to fly home Wednesday.

1:25.8

The flight was cancelled because mechanical reasons and then the flight was again canceled the next

1:30.6

day after a replacement part did not reach China.

1:33.6

And then on Friday they also canceled it because the flight crew ran up against their maximum

1:38.6

flight time.

1:39.9

At some point, the frustrated and desperate passengers stranded in Shanghai took matters into their

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