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Miles Away

Why You Should Freeze Your Butt Off in Scandinavia This Winter

Miles Away

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

TPG news editor Emily McNutt and reviews editor Nick Ellis join Miles Away host Zach Honig to talk about what makes Scandinavia such a desirable destination - and why you should consider visiting in the dead of winter. Nick's never been, so Zach and Emily detail options to get there in business class using his Chase or Amex points, as well as hotel options.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Miles Away. This is your host

0:07.3

Zach Konek and today TPG's news editor Emily McNutt explains why you

0:11.4

should consider traveling to Scandinavia in the dead of winter.

0:15.0

We also give TPG reviews editor Nick Ellis tips on how to get there and where to stay once

0:19.6

you arrive. Welcome back to Miles Away. Today I am sitting down with Emily McNutt, news editor at The

0:30.2

Points Guy. Welcome Emily. Thanks, happy to be here be here and Nick Ellis who is our reviews editor

0:34.9

he's that how are you next the one who says hey Zach can you do me a favor a really big

0:39.3

favor and fly left tons of first class from Frankfurt to JFK and I like only if I can go to New York.

0:45.6

It's a big ask I know.

0:47.4

And then they'll be like oh okay but if you're if you're willing to do that maybe you'll

0:50.2

also do me a favor in Flex Singapore Suites as well.

0:52.6

The way there, yeah.

0:53.6

You're like, okay, Nick.

0:54.4

Tough weekend.

0:55.4

I can definitely help you out.

0:56.4

And Emily is like, can you write this?

0:57.6

Can you write this?

0:58.6

Can you write this?

1:00.6

Can you write this?

1:01.6

Can you write this? Yes, definitely. So I want to give a little bit of backstory as to how Nick came about becoming reviews editor,

1:07.8

TPG in general.

1:09.1

We were just talking about this before we started recording, but I remember we were a very small team at the time and I was at

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