AT#676 - Travel to La Rochelle, France

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Hear about travel to La Rochelle, France as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jacob Kell from facilitateluxury.com about this beautiful medieval city. What things are there to do in La Rochelle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.6	in my passport photo.
0:10.7	Amateur Traveler episode 676. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about
0:17.6	Muscles and U-boats and wine, Huguenots, the three musketeers, and then Plantagenet Kings as we go to
0:27.8	La Rochelle in France. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about
0:36.6	La Rochelle. I'd like to welcome to the show Jacob Kell who is a luxury travel advisor at
0:44.9	facilitate luxury.com and Jacob has come to talk to us about La Rochelle in France.
0:52.3	Jacob welcome to the show.
0:53.3	Thanks, Chris.
0:54.0	I'm glad to be here.
0:55.1	And what's your connection with La Rochelle?
0:57.0	Well, it goes way back.
0:58.3	I originally studied there to learn French.
1:01.6	I spent a semester studying at the University of La Rochelle and that's
1:05.4	when I really got to learn the language, learn the culture, and then get to explore what
1:11.2	still today is one of my favorite cities.
1:13.2	Excellent and can you put it on the map for people who are not familiar with this city?
1:17.2	La Rochelle is on the Bay of Biscayne.
1:19.2	It's on the west coast of France.
1:21.8	It's about two hours from Bordeaux, if you're familiar with Bordeaux. And it's closer to
1:27.9	Spain, about an hour north of Bay Ritz, which is on the border with Spain.
1:32.8	So it's a beautiful coastal Atlantic town,
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