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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#399 - Travel to Flanders in Belgium (repeat)

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Hear about travel to Flanders in Belgium from the Amateur Traveler. I recently traveled to 5 cities in Belgium: Antwerp, Ghent, Ieper, Bruges and Brussels. Each of these historic cities is wonderfully picturesque, even on a grey November day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi this is Chris from Amateur Traveler and this is a repeat episode.

0:04.0

I'm on the road this week. I'm traveling in Germany. Right now I'm in Wittenburg

0:08.8

in Lutorsstadt and you'll hear more about that in an upcoming episode.

0:13.0

But rather than just have no episode,

0:15.0

this is an episode that you may have heard before.

0:18.0

But it's an award-winning episode.

0:19.0

This is an episode that won a Lowell Thomas Award

0:22.0

from the Society of American Travel Writers.

0:23.7

So I hope you'll enjoy it and I'll ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

0:36.7

amateur traveler episode 399 today the amateur traveler talks about

0:41.2

medieval cities world war, and of course French fries as we go to Belgium. more cafe. I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not

0:56.7

today. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

1:01.5

Before we get into this week's episode,

1:04.1

I do have three news stories for you.

1:06.6

The first one, if you're tired of sitting next

1:08.7

to the crying baby on a plane,

1:10.1

then at low-cost airline in Singapore called Scoot has the answer for you.

1:15.0

On their flights, which have 41 seats, kids under 12 are not allowed.

1:19.0

Or if you think you'd just rather be on the plane by yourself,

1:22.0

then you may want to ask Tom Wagner if that's a good idea because he woke up on an empty plane in the Houston's Airport. They didn't notice that he had fallen asleep on the plane. No one woke him up. Instead Instead they walked off the plane, locked it, and that's where

1:35.7

he found himself. If that's not quite enough aloneness for you, there is an airport that you can have all to

1:41.5

yourself that is for sale in Spain. The airport was originally

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