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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 2: Today's tip is that when you are in a new place,

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Speaker 2: seek out locals recommendations. By asking smart questions, you can

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Speaker 2: wind up with some excellent experiences that you might not

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Speaker 2: have had otherwise. So many of us look at guidebooks

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Speaker 2: or websites when we travel, and that can be fine,

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Speaker 2: but sometimes it is hard to get a real sense

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Speaker 2: of what is good or what just advertises a lot.

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Speaker 2: This is where talking with locals comes in. With the

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Speaker 2: right questions, you can get a lot of good advice.

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Speaker 2: Some of this can start before you even go. If

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Speaker 2: you are on social media and planning a visit somewhere,

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Speaker 2: you can ask folks for ideas, even if you don't

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Speaker 2: have any friends or followers who live in let's say Vancouver.

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Speaker 2: My guess is that someone you know reasonably well talks

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Speaker 2: frequently with someone who does live in Vancouver, they will

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Speaker 2: probably tell you about good hotels or restaurants or places

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Speaker 2: to visit. Once you get there, the pickings are more

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Speaker 2: ripe because most people you talk to in Vancouver probably

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Speaker 2: spend a lot of time in Vancouver. So unless you

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Speaker 2: have booked absolutely everything ahead of time, you will be

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Speaker 2: able to fill in some spots by asking around. And

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Speaker 2: it is fine to just ask people what are your

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Speaker 2: favorite restaurants? But I find you get more useful answers

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Speaker 2: if you hone the questions a bit more. Try some

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Speaker 2: like these, where did you have your best meal last year?

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Speaker 2: Where do you like to go to dinner on your birthday?

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Speaker 2: What's your favorite thing to do here on a weekend afternoon?

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Speaker 2: What's the most beautiful place in this city that I

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Speaker 2: have to take a picture of? What's the weirdest or

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Speaker 2: quirkiest place in town? If eight year olds voted on

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Speaker 2: the best way to spend a saturday here, what would win?

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Speaker 2: Who has the best breakfast in town? Or if you

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Speaker 2: are actually currently in a restaurant or venue while asking

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Speaker 2: these questions, you might ask something like what's your favorite

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Speaker 2: museum other than this? Or what's your favorite place for

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Speaker 2: dessert other than this? Specific questions tend to get specific results,

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Speaker 2: and they are easier for the locals to answer. You

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Speaker 2: are not forcing them to think through all the restaurants

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Speaker 2: in town and forcing them to guess what you personally

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Speaker 2: are looking for. You are asking where someone likes to

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Speaker 2: go for her birthday. There is most likely an answer

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Speaker 2: to that question, and maybe you won't like that place,

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Speaker 2: but it could be good. And if you ask three

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Speaker 2: people that question, you will likely get enough answers to

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Speaker 2: come up with something that sounds appealing. Often you don't

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Speaker 2: even need to strike up conversations with random people, though

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Speaker 2: it's fine if you do. If you are waiting in

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Speaker 2: line for coffee, for instance, just ask a quick question.

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Speaker 2: But some people are more readily available to talk. The

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Speaker 2: clerk who is selling you that souvenir t shirt, a

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Speaker 2: waitress at your breakfast place, the hotel staff, your Uber

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Speaker 2: driver if you are there on business. The people you

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Speaker 2: are working with will have ideas too, for any meals

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Speaker 2: or hours that aren't accounted for. Even if you are shy,

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Speaker 2: you can probably manage to talk with them. If you

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Speaker 2: develop a habit of asking locals for recommendations, you may

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Speaker 2: settle on a few questions that reliable, illicit good answers.

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Speaker 2: Your kids may come up with questions they love asking too,

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Speaker 2: and these go to questions can guide you through destination

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Speaker 2: after destination. Now, maybe you don't have any travel plans

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Speaker 2: in the near future, but I think this tip can

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Speaker 2: still be useful in a different way. Maybe you could

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Speaker 2: make a list of recommendations for your own town. No

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Speaker 2: doubt someone will visit in the near future, perhaps stop

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Speaker 2: you on the street and ask you for coffee shop recommendations.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be nice to send them somewhere fun. I

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Speaker 2: know that would make me smile, and I'm guessing it

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Speaker 2: would feel good for you too, to be that local

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Speaker 2: with the insider knowledge and to make someone else's trip

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Speaker 2: much better. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 2: and here's to making the most of our time.

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