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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Being Globally Curious with Seth Kugel

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is former Frugal Traveler columnist for the New York Times and author of Rediscovering Travel: A Guide for the Globally Curious, Seth Kugel. Seth is also known in some circles as the "Latino food expert", can claim that he has written for the New Yorker but can't claim that his work has appeared in the New Yorker, and is one of the funniest guys out there (just read his about page!). Check out the full show notes here!

Transcript

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But I thought it was amazing that like they had these different candy bars there.

0:04.0

I was like, what? Cadbury Flake, what's that?

0:09.0

And you stick it in ice cream, you know, you see that where they stick the little chocolate stick in the soft

0:14.4

ice cream and that was so amazing to me and just blew my mind that they were

0:18.5

driving on the opposite side of the street and just I think from there I was I was hooked.

0:24.0

The Extra Pack of Travel Podcast

0:28.0

The Extra Pack of Travel Podcast

0:31.0

Episode 3.55 Despite podcast, episode 355. Despite its name, Brazil is only the world's second largest exporter

0:39.9

of Brazil nuts. Can you guess what country is number one? Stick around to the end of the show and I'll let you know.

0:48.8

You do not have to be the former New York Times Frugal traveler like today's guest.

0:54.3

In order to understand that one of the best ways to save money when you're traveling

0:59.2

is to only travel with a carry-on backpack.

1:01.6

You're going to save yourself all the headaches and

1:03.5

hassle that comes with lugging around a lot of bags. You're also going to save

1:06.6

yourself a lot of money because you're not paying those pesky checked bag

1:10.2

fees. So if you are looking for the best travel carrone backpack out there, the one that I use to go all over the world, check it out,

1:18.4

Tortuga backpacks.com. Make sure you use that promo code EPOP all capital letters and that'll get you 10% off anything you order 3. Would you feel your Dublin heart is burning?

1:45.0

Yeah, well you don't have to worry because we're going there soon.

1:50.0

Because we're going there.

1:54.0

They don't not go worry because we're going there soon.

2:00.0

Hello, Hello Travel Nurds and welcome to the Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast, the show that teaches

2:09.0

you how to travel more while spending less.

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