A.M. in the Afternoon

Can You Travel Without Being a Jerk?

Episode Summary

Your bags are packed, you're ready to go... but have you considered what your travel style says about you? Travel addicts Ange and Margie share their tips for how to avoid being the "ugly tourist" and discuss their love of Japanese trains, why Iceland is so trendy now, and whether there is really any difference between a tourist and a traveller.

Episode Notes

Your bags are packed, you're ready to go... but have you considered what your travel style says about you? Travel addicts Ange and Margie share their tips for how to avoid being the "ugly tourist" and discuss their love of Japanese trains, why Iceland is so trendy now, and whether there is really any difference between a tourist and a traveller.

Don't forget to read/watch/listen

• Passenger Shaming Instagram account
• Lois on the Loose by Lois Pryce (Alaska to South America); and Red Tape and White Knuckles by Lois Price (London to Cape Town)
• Any Anthony Bourdain tv show
• Long Way Down (Scotland to Cape Town) or Long Way Round (London to NY via Eurasia) with Ewan McGregor and Charley
  Boorman
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed (book or movie)

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