9 medals picked up just fine and in the rugby the sofa Red Devils halfback Jackson Hastings has won the 2019 state Prescott Man of Steel award this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. Sound smart speaker and how the weather most areas will turn try for a time overnight rain and strengthening winds moving in to western Britain by torn a windy day to come on Monday specially in the Northwest rain sweeping across much of the country through the diode Bryden up later in the afternoon across the north and the west of Britain sunny spells out a few showers possible Spinny's this guy has. Represented a coal mines because. He says I think it's really difficult and sometimes they call my family sometimes just on the Greektown a little time to my head and was telling our minister he's not. Getting a deal. Because a fall is the news listen to the radios he. Said nothing is truly off the table it's something that's just all day every day coverage of breaks in this. Life. And this is all for nigh on 5 laws on Dawson at a bar and coming up from Monday morning travel Foden Now we'll open up the phone lines so you can talk to us about your travel experiences or indeed ask any question they like of our travel guru Simon Calder will be joining us now. For a Monday morning job for him this morning 080-859-0969 extension 3 is the number to call 885909693 of the many questions that you could ask are particularly interested in your experiences of booking a trip to see a sporting event in the past if you go to. Questions about sport travel in Generally if you're planning to go to any sporting event in the future perhaps to the Euros next year or to the World Cup a couple of years after that when you have a sporting tournament would you want to know the ins and outs and 008-085-9096 extension 93 texters an 85 of 5 a remote off will not b.b.c. Dog code or u.k. So sorry I meant you are in some kind of locker a pod somewhere and paranoia you well I'm actually in a semi capsule hotel it's actually very comfortable I've got a nice single bed I've got Tam a Lou got a cooker if I wanted to do some light self-catering and considering the woeful state of the pound I'm paying 38 pounds a night for this and that includes unlimited green tea and I hope as you can probably hear a decent wife I in order to speak to you and as usual got all the all the bedding I can find hundreds of stacked around me said that I can now it deadens the sound so it doesn't sound quite as much as I mean in some brick capsule somewhere in the Far East is your definition of a semi caps over. Well a capsule hotel is is sort of something where you could possibly see now. Maybe even experienced. A proper sort of c.t. Scan where you are effectively loaded onto a trolley and put into a machine Well it's not as bad as that that's the kind of it's that high density sleepy is quite popular here in Tokyo because of course Landis so scarce but mine's got quite a lot of room considering it's like. A kind of really pokey sort of single room I suppose but everything you need and. The price is right and I tell you what I've been outraged marvelous noodle breakfast which cost me $2.00 pounds 50 minutes in a really nice quiet kind of suburb of Tokyo easy access to go to the center but just just what I need and I'm here for the amp convention thing he says the Travel Association lots and lots on the agenda but particularly Thomas Cook because it's exactly 2 weeks almost to the minute since the greatest name in travel collapsed leaving hundreds or thousands of people adrift where we'll talk about that in a moment I do fancy the noodles Don't get me wrong because I'm a greedy hear it but when it comes to the 70 cabs show I'm wondering is it claustrophobic now 99 and I mean go window I can. Go it's all gone wrong but I only got some fresh air I mean a basement so I haven't got much of a view but having a window resembles is luxury really makes it much less a prison like not like a cell it's all that machine very bad very pleasant lots although you wouldn't want to be wouldn't want to be here with too many of your friends are until you have brought your issues very close friends your During the Rugby World Cup and you will see lympics in Turkey to come in a year's time as well. And I wonder whether. Obviously is going to be. A point for travel sporting travelers and so on I wonder whether we could talk about travelling for sporting tournament Ah yes because here you know Express says I want to go to that see 20 World Cup next year but I can't find any information on the semifinal pairings in which one of us at Adelaide which one of us at Adelaide. Which one is. In Adelaide which one is in Sydney do you know much about trying to find out information about sporting tournament's Where would you go what I would go to and see if I do this if not into this world real time so I'm going to teach 20 World Cup dot com. Obviously this is the tournament which is happening if I'm not mistaken next or Sarasota a year from now or our time is requiring me to register for through all sorts of things in of course the but that would be in Australia would be the obvious Yes Well that's yeah I would just go to 2 t 20 World Cup dot com and on their system where I can find out all these big events have an official site and that's where you can go and often buy tickets here we are yes and. Totally 18 to November the 15th 2020 is the men's and you've got the remains. Are in the year and you're taking place in Adelaide Brisbane camber Jill long which is in the state of Victoria quite close to Melbourne Melbourne another. Venue along with Perth Sydney not forgetting plucky Hobart on the Island of that of Tasmania so all the details there I reckon and yeah yeah good good time to go there because if I'm not mistaken next Ashes in Australia isn't till kind of 202122 so quite a long time if you want to go and explore Well it will be autumn a year from now that their spring lovely lovely time of year to be there but there's so much going on of course he mentioned the World Cup Not much World Cup frenzy I must say that I often felt since they're getting into it here to take you know us City Well Japan in general I mean it's I guess it's if I'm comparing it with I went to Russia last year for the World Cup and you. Couldn't move from the moment you arrived it was clear that this was a massive kind of festival of sport and wherever you were people were very excited about it not quite not quite the same sense here but also that means that you can for instance or get tickets pretty easy just been checking out what Wednesday's match Scotland against Russia very easy to get tickets about 25 pounds am still available England France in Yokohama just down the coast from where I am now on Saturday that sold out at the moment but there probably be some returns turning up so if you want to get yourself over here still plenty of cheap tickets to get here and. Come over and if we're just looking ahead to the Olympics I'm going to do exactly what I try and do every lympics which is watch the prices don't even think about anything until maybe 6 weeks maybe 3 weeks beforehand maybe a week before and I can guarantee that lovely places say like this will be no more expensive than they are now quite possibly cheaper airfares will be lower as long as you don't want to go immediately before they start immediately after the end so if you want to dip into it really straight forward there will be accommodation of probably be taking it will be a great great festival of sport and don't let the extremely high costs that are being kind of talked about at the moment put you off and I imagine this might be a recurring theme if listeners wish to talk about. Sports travel. The question might differ from venue to venue but for example the t 20 World Cup in Australia all perhaps the Olympics next year in Japan all perhaps the football World Cup in Doha in the early 22 what would you would you. Go with a tour company or would you go with arranging your own flights and arranging your own hoto which is the preference for. Well it all depends how much certainty you need and how much uncertainty you are prepared to tolerate So for example I took a team of a team I took a group of very cruelly town supporters out to a World Cup qualifier in Albania actually under communism and in 1989 you need all the help you could get so obviously that was all arranged to within an inch of his life he couldn't get any other way but other trips I mean for example I'm really keen on seeing some of the euro 2020 qualifiers next year in places like back in Azerbaijan and some pieces Bergin in Moscow and personally I would organize those myself but that's only because I kind of there I think things will be alright when I was out in callin in grant for the World Cup last year I didn't have any means of escaping the city after the Croatia Nigeria match but I thought probably something would turn up and it did and I managed to get out but I'm happy with that if you're not then of course is good companies Thomas Cook sport was sadly what was a great company sadly no longer with us but you still got companies such as Gulliver's sports travel and sports world and they will most certainly organize things for you and of course if you're prepared to pay into the thousands you could probably even at this stage think yeah I want to be at the 2022 World Cup final in Canada and you can probably buy a package that would guarantee that you would be there although I think cattle is so far off the scale of why I go to big sporting events worldwide there I don't think I'm going to be in in the market for it simply because there aren't. I'm more interested in countries and how they are during big festivals like this than I am actually in with the greatest respect seeing Croatia beat Nigeria to know. This century let's just leave it where it's great to be yet but I believe it really the score didn't matter the fact that it was a pretty scrappy match doesn't matter which all the flak was you were there in this city which is never. More Nigerians are in can any grad than it ever been there in the whole of human history what a fantastic atmosphere you know it really was and no doubt those singing Oh Are are are. Is give our to Gore they certainly were and of course lots of Croatians driving in from from Croatia so here is fantastic and and that's the kind of atmosphere you want. Even way. Before the geopolitical upset in in the Gulf region which means that cats are as isolated from places like the United Arab Emirates I thought Well Ok I can see how lots of people are going to base them selves into buy or Abu Dabi and then fly here for the for the matches in in Canada and it's well we can but he could talk until 4 o'clock with the about the rights and quite possibly and angry about the wrongs of staging a big sporting event there but it's not going to be quite the same sort of lots of calls sporting travel in general 808599693 if you've got experiences of going on some of these sporting tours then feel free show your experiences but also if you got any questions for Simon on any tour sporting tour that you are planning or any other questions on travel John of. As you've mentioned Thomas Cook a couple times and of course the ramifications of the collapse of Thomas Cook are still being felt all over the world by the way but Jonathan says what happens to the brands that Thomas Cook had to March travel tools in search of the name of Jonathan that's a really good question and well this is a start with the biggest brand of all of course Thomas Cook itself this is a company which has been going for a 178 years sin on this with with quality Week care with reassurance that everything will be all right and with the venture and stretching the horizon so a great great name which is. Of course what one of many reasons not least the loss of over $20000.00 jobs why it is so sad that Thomas Cook has disappeared but what one feature perhaps Jonathan which speaks to the failure of Thomas Cook was the fact that those brands air travel air tourism I travel which it picked up I think in 2008 you know a deal which wasn't great at it has an ascent maybe they were valuing the goodwill that came with that purchase at over 1000000000 pounds on their their balance sheet right up until this year and finally and accountants came along and said you know. Frankly we don't believe you should have been writing down that goodwill year after year and you've got to get rid of it is one reason why we had earlier this year over 1000000000 pounds in losses Thomas Cook has had to write it off will go and I suppose hasten the demise of the company but and probably if somebody wanted to pick up the heir to his brand that they could talk to the Official Receiver and pick it up for 10000000 or something but I'm not sure that there would be many. Company's here at the travel convention to be big securely in the market editor's was a great company in its own right in the one of their late ninety's I spent a great deal of money with him because they often fantastic value they turned into my travel and. Well after that they kind of lost their way merged with with Thomas Cook Thomas Cook was saddled with huge amounts of debt from that moment onwards and I think you probably look back made me 2 thousands as when Thomas Cook was lost in great shape and he's been struggling equates with all the debt ever since and 2 weeks ago threw in the towel Sadly when it couldn't organize a financial rescue plan but yet it was May be back but I don't suppose anybody is going to share much of said maturity or over that the Thomas Cook brand itself will probably be taken over by. The Chinese biggest shareholder which will be I think wanting to extract what value it can from it but mostly in the Far East where they like. British brands with heritage I think Mark the Liverpool says 17 year old son has booked a solo trip to Venice where he'll be flying to Marco Polo and staying in a hotel for 4 days in November is anything we want to check on to ensure that he's safe and has taken all the necessary measures regarding possible states as. Oh Oh how exciting Well if he 17 I'm guessing you'll be traveling on a passport which is probably issued before he was 16 so therefore it's going to be valid for. 5 years so you need to check the expiry date and there is a passport check of the find online at Gov dot u.k. The thing is from the 1st of November on words I don't tell you exactly what's going to happen until the 31st of October but if we as a Government says leave the e.u. On that day then from the 1st of November all bets will be off you have to assume that his passport needs to be valid for at least 6 months and you've got a bit of time yeah if you need to review renew between now and then he should be able to do that. In terms of Ellerbe effects Well it could get messy at the airports mainly I think because of that passport issue because the airlines will need to be checking the passports of everyone not just to see that they're van age which is all you need to do for the for the e.u. At the moment not just to see that they've got 6 months left which is what you're going to have to do if there is no deal breaks it but also to check the issue date and what impact that has on when they are deemed to have right now it is a very labyrinth time process and my sense is that flights could actually be held up because there's a great long line of people having their passport details scrutinized much more closely than they have to be at the moment but apart from that agree a perfect time I must say to to. Martin sun the perfect time to be going to Venice November is absolutely great the tourists aren't there it's really atmospheric just missed rolling. In from the league. Be great it will be a little bit nifty compared to and I know what you mean about the tour is just far too many dories in the summer now should I should really say that because I was one of them but may I just recommend for 70 year old. Your 70 year old takes the ferry from Marco Polo to poor Oh yes it is rather than going bar code sure anything it's a couple of you rose to tell you because you go arrive in Venice by water cooked so you know you have yes and forgive me I think I called Mark Martin just now and what is really good and you can eat just Or you can follow the science from market airport down to the waterfront and there will probably be a succession of vessels waiting there. By 10 to hop on the next one I think is about 11 year old so it's 3 or 4 times the price of the bus but there is nothing to beat arriving in style go by water yeah you got to yes exactly and on the way out get a cheap bus the a c t v C's I think are fast and fast and economical Jesse How likely do you think it is that another British Airways pilot strike will be called before the end of this year our. Well I wish I knew that's just give you the background on this British Airways pilot very well we're boarded jam in general terms compared with maybe their counterparts at other the u.k. Airports they would say that they get well paid for doing a good job but they aren't get well paid enough and so they're in the middle of a pay dispute with British Airways which basically goes along the lines of Hey British Airways you are making stupendous profits on or. As a result of our getting. They. Providing it's excellent service so therefore we're going on strike. And they had a 2 day strike on the night intense of September which basically grounded the entire airline cost something over $100000000.00 pounds in profits says British Airways they then called another strike on the 27th of September then call that off saying they wanted to go into talks British Airways reinstated to about half the flights. And they the pilots are spoken that links to the union they say we simply want to negotiate they will gain the respect that we deserve from British Airways British Airways of course says you know we are an excellent employer everybody wants to come and work for us we get hundreds of applications from people who we want to take advantage of our great conditions of service and it goes on and the pilots union I think took the view. This this employer is not prepared to negotiate and therefore we're going to have to call this off and kind of try to lower the temperature and then we can start negotiating again but those negotiations haven't happened so your sim in terms of the possibility of more strikes Well yes the latest that the union of said is now come a British Airways Air account of proper talk this otherwise we're going to cause more strikes and don't forget that our mandate for strike action extends until January so that comes Christmas and New Year and while that prevails there is a disincentive for people to book with British Airways which is damaging the the company's earnings so a messy or situation and other airline pilot strikes are available Ryanair u.k. Pilots working for Ryanair are also in dispute and they. It also had a whole string of strikes which so far the airline says hasn't had any effect on services the union says well it has better because they've been bringing in pilots from across Europe it's actually the effects been in Italy and Poland and places not in the u.k. So quite a lot of discontent among the pilot community quite a lot of these very profitable airlines saying that. We pay our pilots very well and some numbers have been put out for Ryanair particular says well you know these people enter under 1000 a year and they want that doubled the unions straight. Very strongly refute that but both parts of that statement yeah and Jesse also adds his or her experience of travel for sport when to see the New York Jets versus the Patriots Meadowlands New Jersey stayed in the fantastic freehand hotels near 23rd Street very high for Penn Station direct train to Maryland's and also the l r I w to j.f.k. Airport via Jamaica station for their Long Island Railroad Yeah Ok very good price stay in Manhattan I would tend to stay if you're going to be spending time outside Manhattan don't pay Manhattan hotel rates would be my my personal view but you know 23rd Street it's certainly could and in terms of getting to the yet to the airport the Long Island Railroad via Jamaica is great if you want to be in kind of mid town Manhattan Otherwise it's the subway so thank you Jesse Long Island Railroad that sounds like a song by Lonnie Donnegan you know. A rocket in mine. Oh that's a very good question the Rock Island Line I believe and I could be wrong I think it's somewhere in Illinois but I'm very happy should be called No I think it might be in Illinois but it does run down to New Orleans because that's what the song says but then any more about it than that anyway it was very obscure link I just thought. It would almost gave me the opportunity to sing some of it. Speaking on behalf of the listeners that also would come on so I mean. If you're going to speak on behalf of at least. Have some kind of. Reality check reality. Anyway Oh wait oh wait 5 for 9 and I think it's 3 I know nobody wants me to sing so I'm not going to. 85963 let's talk about travel with our travel guru Simon Calder is in Japan in Tokyo so prompted me to ask questions about sport travel for free if you go experiences of traveling for sports or to see it sort of meant or otherwise and do do share those experiences with us and if you've got a question for Simon whether it be about traveling to go see any sporting tournament coming up or travel in general then feel free 590-9693 1st let's go the latest 5 headlines says Jewett Clarkson from digital b.b.c. Sounds smart speaker come on Venus b.b.c. Radio 5 Live Thank you Don Boris Johnson has urged the e.u. To grasp the opportunity to seal a break city if it comes after the French President Emanuel macron told the prime minister the Brussels will decide by the end of the week whether a deal is possible the wife of an American diplomat has returned to the u.s. Despite being a suspect in the fatal road crash Northamptonshire has been named as an circulus she was involved in a collision with a motorcycle in August the 19 year old right ahead. He done died police have written to the u.s. Embassy to urge them to waive her diplomatic immunity a parliamentary inquiry will be set up to look at the impact of endometriosis after research carried out by the b.b.c. 13 a half 1000 women shared their experiences of the condition which can cause extreme period pain nearly all said it had badly affected their career sex life and mental health and Anika Rice says doing Strictly was like running away to the circus she's become the 2nd celebrity voted off this year's series of the b.b.c. Dancing show from England keeper David James was saved by the judges in the dance off for the 2nd week running skill the sport this morning his Katie Shanahan manager Pep quartier says they weren't at their best after will stun the Premier League champions to a 2 nil that 3 city remain 8 points behind leaders lived full going into the international break no we didn't we are going to process the process to play to a world where they will have problems in that sense in that was was more and more typical So with the mood mood playing a specific way and you have to be so precise in today was a bad day still sometimes have an unfortunate happened today and it was a day to remember for this mom. Was. Was thought just hit it got a good connection and because either side the keeper you want to go in from there yes Newcastle midfielder Massey Longstaff scored the winner against Manchester United on his Premier League debut Newcastle's 10 victory lifts them out of the relegation zone as only going to social side move just 2 points above the bottom 3 new recruit Mason mount was among the goal scorers for Chelsea as they pulled off a 41 victory over Southampton marries the 20 year old midfielder admits he still pinching himself these in the Chelsea 1st team been at the club since 6 you you always have that focus again into the 1st team and now it's come around a legend. The manager is a bit surreal and I see this on the young boys coming through in the squad as a whole is brilliant and there's so much competition within and you have the experience is pushing or younger players so it's a perfect environment and we're working so hard while always helped move arsenal up the 3rd of his goal secure at the mo 10 victory over Boma Rangers leapfrog Celtic following that Suno defeat to Livingston in the Scottish Premiership limbs to manager Gary Holtz was full of praise for his side's performance as they beat Celtic for the 1st time in the club's history I think we be executed and the way it is in the famous old really well but there was a great deal for a look at the football teams where they are to look was the governor and thankfully . Ranges thrashed Hamilton 5 now Great Britain will come home from the World Athletics Championships in Doha with the worst total for 14 years the team had been given a target of 7 to 9 medals his Our correspondent. A couple of near misses left Britain on 5 medals their lowest tally at a global event since the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 Jake Wightman finished 5th in the men's 1500 meters in a time fast enough to have won many a gold in the past and there was a 4th place in the women's 4 by 400 meters relay won by the USA who finished with 29 medals 14 of them gold Britain were 6th in the medals table the same finishes 2 years ago in London and a key whistleblower in the Alberto Salazar case claims the night organ projects that the coach ran should be shut down Salazar has been banned for 4 years for doping violations but is appealing that ruling American cargo who trained under Salazar between 242011 has told b.b.c. Sport the project's has to go and that's the latest from b.b.c. Sport c.b.c. Sounds download free b.b.c. Sounds at and discover the best of sites like pod casts a news and business in the world of personal finance. Plus the very latest from the financial markets around the globe with a wake up some money political a big decision this week from the World Trade Organization free b.b.c. Sound sat radio and podcasts this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live available on the b.b.c. Sound up all night at a bar and exists reaching me saying Tolson I remember. At b.b.c. 5 Live an interview with Ginger Baker from a couple of years back and I seem to think it was yourself the broadcaster or maybe not no you're right you're right I didn't interview with Ginger Baker who has passed away now at the age of 80 and was trying play that before the end of this program is something of a tribute to him Reka much in the. Interviewee I will remember but anyway it was a good interview the really interesting and fascinating talks about his time working with found a coup in Nigeria where he lived for several years amongst other things anyway 080-859-0969 threes and number to call if you'd like to join in Monday morning travel Foden we've got Simon Calder with us and we've got Mick in south east London was the last question you make good. Sense of the. Military like your interview I think you're right Larry are very sad loss. And I can make a lot questions cheer. In your opinion the best consecrates are Caravan however. Give me for a start why Livy want to turn our is how one man Easy going to make a living naturally. Oh. Well that's a very good question about that notion of. Crikey Oh let's take the Caribbean question 1st I would say say it in half of November absolutely the best time to go that the hurricane season is pretty much over the. Not the. Yeah I mean pretty much anywhere in the in the Caribbean all the way around Cuba Dominican Republic the places I can teach us and Lisa Barbados Jamaica Bay go it's all great and that applies also I would say for the the Caribbean coast of Mexico so you can cue new resource like that you're going to get great prices it's the end of the storm season so everything should be calm and beautiful and it's only once you get into December that the real peak season which is driven by the Americans basically bidding up prices that that it starts getting expensive and I really wouldn't be there any time beyond March possibly April 3 to November just because. It's hot it's expensive and certainly from Juneau but you're taking a risk with that with storms and by the way all of that applies to Florida as well I would say. And oh I'm 2nd for a 2nd parole the 2nd frog here I don't know. Only I started working in Apple. So long ago that Freddie Laker was still going I was cleaning out his brains at Gatwick airport then I started frisking people that get wake up as a jet Bob not a Hopi and then I go into writing comic books and to all sorts of places including including Cuber indeed in Central America I'm still damn and other places and then I got a sure hope within dependent and that was 25 years ago and clearly the media has changed a bit then but well when I left the u.k. . Friday I was still working at the Independent I think I still am and. It was just a matter of trying to try to deliver a decent decent value but. My employers and I guess the yet the traveling public will be the judges of that and I suppose the only other thing making is that I do make a point of of paying for all my own stuff so therefore maybe that that provides a kind of a different angle. Actually a sovereign part well right now it's. Getting really good value where of your going. And of course lots of stuff tends to go wrong at the at the bottom end of the market which is where I spend most of my time anyway thank you both for those questions but you did leave out one important bit which was that t.v. Series that you love a used to do is to see travelling all over t.v. Screen from 10 plays to another oh well look I mean the number of television series are being passed off which of them being axed. Doesn't bear thinking about but there we are yes it was a stagger on for. One crisis to another they're very much like the travel industry anyway as Bob Marley said if you are the big 3 I am the small axe ready to cut and . I like to quote every now and then for this is grates a very rare. In rather a siren any advice on musicians carrying instruments or jets to happy to pay extra because only being told that I can't take a saxophone clarinet and violin on as hand luggage we have mole who once was disposed of it we have multiple parties going so could technically be included within the weight limit on. Any advice Grace greatly appreciated Well Steve 1st of all congratulations and if you're going busking or we've got something more professional lined up that sounds great taking musical instruments on aircraft is a rarity specialized thing. It's actually sort of easy if you got something the size of a cello because they new book each a seat and you actually book a ticket and I think I'm only exaggerating a tiny bit under the name of Mr cello or at least most cello I imagine and you therefore book into seat and you strap it in and it doesn't get to me or anything but every airline has its own rules of course there's some instruments you just about able to take his campaign baggage most of the time I mentioned most musicians will want to take their own there is to mess into the cabin so they don't get thrown around but I think it's a question of. Kind of starting off with the instrument and working out what the end I'm going to allow and if necessary shopping around and go to other airlines which have different policies for example British Airways absolutely the most generous air campaign baggage allowance of any European airline I know of 46 kilograms in the eighty's one really quite substantial back and one smaller bag and that would probably get you to where if you needed to be with the what was it again a sax a violin and then Arizona and I parent at once or band is that. Yeah you could probably get guest Chill out of 3 British Airways and if they did work out what was going to the other one but yeah serious problem Steve and of course is lots of musicians forums where they will talk about these things are lies are going to have a lot there but yet you choose your choose your airline according to its musical instrument policy and to try and play on board by the way thanks to big for the corps and June Halifax says I'll be cycling the length of Japan in July and August of 2020 passing during the entire via limp Igs I have no chance of getting hold of a ticket for the opening ceremonies where would be a memorable place to watch the opening ceremony on telly. Well I imagine that almost any any bar in Tokyo is going to be watching it but they will that they will undoubtedly have as they did in London in 2012 of course parks with with big screens it's going to be a wonderful atmosphere that the rather like London the the city is kind of from a business point of view fairly quiet it in July and August so I would just cycle into town. Find somewhere to stay and then just ask around to find out what's happening there will be there's quite a lot of green space in Tokyo even though it is the hub of I think can I say make a localist the biggest megalopolis in the world where you can actually run you harm . Or. What a great thing. Clean the length of chip and quite challenging with some of the islands but. A great experience and of course an alternative to the Bullet Train and anybody who doesn't want to cycle the length by the way can get you pan rail pass which remains I think starting price of about 180 pounds for a week one of the great bargains of of travel anywhere in the world and is Japan cycling megalopolis or wherever it was not who I've never thought of it as that because certainly when you I mean it's not a great place to drive absolutely of but not from the air but I've done some a sharking and it's not to repeat them by the way if I just divert on to the hitchhiking subject it's not as easy is in the west here if somebody stops for you they will feel obliged to take you 2 way you are going not you know it's not that where I'll be going down the m 6 to the Warrington. Turn offs are dropping off there it's kind of oh yeah I'm going to go to Sulphur to see 5 Live and they will drive you right to the outside the studios or so I do very much of that is quite embarrassing and difficult to kind of preserve that somebody will feel obliged to take you off their way but not a great place for driving. Because lots and narrows difficult terrain and your quite a lot of Japan is either. Just city or beautiful mountains which are great but that the roads are not to repeat. And cycling is going to be challenging I have just on this trip seen many more bike paths around Tokyo than I've seen before and I'm actually a bit later on today going to try and rent a bike but it's not it's not as recognised as it is in say China where everybody cycles or at least they used to till they got. A bit richer and they were got cars now. Yeah I'm going to blame you for these techs that have very little to do of travel or yeah they know absolutely Well David Dr David Craze let's start with the crazy that says We love you to sing Datsun if I need to shout Shut up at the White House know I am with him yeah that's great yeah yeah Ok And Dave says Is it the same day no it's not Dave says of all the challenges facing our planet possibly the most important is what to do should Nigeria win a World Cup How would we close a dos and the many millions of his countrymen from sitting in hair navigate veni which train you have no voice choirs interests in an attempt to neutralize the discord to share the good old. Terrible mind you can see there were some good voices out there I've just exhibited and then I think that's one also you seem singing. A single player blame you and then when I go back to Nigeria say it wasn't me gov It was. Neil knows sorry and now I just you say I can't wait to Nigeria to see the world. You know that. I would say cure around I would want to hear our Lynch e.g. Sheets in my hundreds of aunts and uncles usually literally and let's watch them singing to me cools and then like the Japanese you know if you. I mean if you're European you're hitchhiking that they will insist on Seki to the very door there's another you know it's far too dangerous for you to just drop you off at the junction so I'll take you the extra 50 yards if you don't mind Anyway Neil it Wells says thinking of his new friend in Austin Texas next year then going on to the Grand Canyon and also possibly cycling up Pike's Peak in Colorado will it be better than see fly internally or fly. The holiday will be up to 3 weeks Oh Ok Very good very good question so I'm assuming that there's a cycling up quite speak is it is a sort of separate enterprise as opposed to who was it who's. Was it Steve who cycling through I don't know he sees a man with a musical instrument but but our friend who is cycling through Japan Yes So so. Ok where to begin the these places are all quite a long way apart as you would have thought that they have worked out there in Halifax by the way Zarqa right up sorry and thank you very much so looking at Austen absolutely in the heart of Texas the capital of the state of course and a gorgeous place to be and I'm going to guess it's a 1000 miles from the Grand Canyon so that sounds to me like a. Flight and you can of course fly nonstop now into. Boston from each row on British Airways and I believe that American Airlines may possibly even be going on that route soon and you can fly in and out of Phoenix on that or on either airline so I suppose my my thought if I were doing this would be to buy an open jaw ticket flying into Austyn out of Phoenix. And then put together the internal flights which would be one up to. Denver or I guess Colorado Springs another one down to Phoenix the one aspect I would say is probably the journey from Pike's Peak to. Grand Canyon would be I think quite spectacular to drive so you might want to do that but be aware of the drop off the show going from Colorado to. Arizona for example I reckon you would be paying minimum of $150.00 pounds possibly more for Obama a drop off fee. So you might prefer to fly or until there's still the good old Greyhound bus and latterly the. The major bus is also in action in the us and I use some of those 1st trips of a couple of 100 miles. So lots and lots of possibilities. But generally it's best if you are going to be booking internal flights to book them as part of your trip you probably get better value and he will also tend to get a better luggage allowance as well because that is mostly governed by the larger louts of your international flight and Burgess said if you are going by the good old us which is a good recommendation. But you don't have a stomach for Dunkin Donuts forever take your own Sunny's. Yes Very much so I don't I tend I have done the whole kind of coast to coast on the Greyhound bus and it does get a little bit wearing these days I get out for hours about that my limit and the price of flying is now so low that. For anything above 200 miles you must will just just fly or indeed take the train and very. Own if you happen to be going between 2 points which are connected by train of course that's a wonderful way to see the u.s. The travel east. Network is now so sparse these days and of course you may well have you were talking earlier in the program about climate change and the Grettir to unberth all they go pronunciation with brilliant t.v. That again if you know. Yeah Ok so of course there may be people who say we're already mean you fly anything over 200 miles at some time that's absurd and I'm very happy to take a course on that and yeah. Your pronunciation of think of her name and I hope this correctly because Adrian in Dag in have is with. What Avery and why would you ever want to leave Dagenham. But. My question and. Most of us yes yes definitely. We're not got 5 days for a plan but the public and I'm. Not coming. I'm I can I I mean I mean I'm but I'm not quite well not when you blah blah. Blah people are but well. But. Yeah but what are you defining spring only because it's also skiing territory as you will probably know one of my. Family are well I would call that early summer however that mother and I don't want. One on One. More You Know where I should actually step back is a very very good place to go to do skiing simply because it's cheap and cheerful and certainly if you're learning or just deciding whether or not it is for you to be and there ia with where the mountains are fairly low where the costs are fairly low or you can quite happily just book or a day or 2 just to sort of try out has a lot to be said for it but temps are enough vacuum and also I love the areas that are fringing it if you see what I mean so. For example. From Bratislava if that's where you're going to be based then get yourself over as fairly sharp east to push to co sheets which is the kind of eastern city and by train it takes about 3 or 4 hours and it costs $5.00 or 10 pounds is. Less and it would cost you probably to get from Dagenham to Southend on the. On the train. And once you are there as well you see I would be really tempted at that stage to think well maybe I'll go into the just nip down into Hungary which is often a skip away about 20 miles south and have a look at the north eastern corner of hungry which is just this past year it used to be called routine e r. And it's one of these independent kingdoms which lasted for about 10 minutes and then sweep around to go to the south western tip of Ukraine in particular the City of God really accessible very beautiful extremely. Well fine and oh sure Ok well I'm going to get going back to the yes and it's just that might might kind it lowers I really like that. Yes and that is all lovely So this is the range of mountains which sell separates or Slovakia's from Poland and there are I would it's just lovely all the way pop rides a good place to pace yourself which is most of the way from Bratislava across to her sheets and. From there you can head up into the mountains in your find that they're full of. Sanatoria So these great big buildings which in the days of communism were where people from. Prague in those days because of course it was checkers the vaca used to go to get just to feel better and they are now some of them converted into very good hotels you've got soo Perper territory for for cycling if that's what you're a do you can actually walk across into Poland if you want to do that and it's it's a kind of area of Europe where everything's easy everything's accessible everything stupendously inexpensive as you might have discovered if you've been there before while I lived there the American on the oh right well it would have changed quite a lot so everything will everything works a bit better and it's just a gorgeous place to be so we used to call there when it was Czechoslovakia then now I'm a month and some of those are almost. I was have a lot when I was it was and then when I wasn't really that bad I want to act like you go tomorrow never when I am not there was a. Really friendly country and the funny thing is last time I was there because he kind of the oh well this is all Eastern Europe and it's all they have Poland in Slovak ear and hungry or quite well quite similar but of course they're not linguistically I was in a pub in. Listening to these people talking and I saw all of the mean Gratian I said What were you doing they said oh we're from Poland and we're told this the vacuum people and it's the easiest thing for us to do you see converse in English so I don't know how your step back Ian is but you got a bit of time to work on it and date and thank you for the call Adrian very quickly Simon Chris Inglis goes is was Should was about Thomas Cook My sister lost her holiday last week. Right what I'm trying desperately to find out so what is happening today so went out of business 2 weeks ago they immediately said you'll be able if you go to have forward booked with Thomas Cook which I have along with about 800000 other people will be setting up the claims from a week ago that didn't happen they now promise it will happen today it's not yet on the civil aviation or sorority website it should be later today so have a look at Thomas Cook dot c. a Dot co dot u.k. I will be keeping our eye on it in fact I have got it right now just in case and he's changed and can you also I'm a war i still is like in February was your recommendation for getting from the airport into the capital and very. Very few choices but to get the bus however on the way back make sure you get the bus via the Blue Lagoon you don't need to go into the bleeding you can have a walk around the bus direct to the airport February absolutely perfect late February because you got the chance of Northern Lights and you've still got really quite a lot of daylight to see this beautiful country looking. For news and a plane before anyone else this c.d.c. Radio 5 Live it's 3 o'clock Good morning this is up or not over. The main news on 5 Live the French president wants bright 6 talks to proceed swiftly to see if a deal can be reached and in sports a tough Sunday for both Manchester clubs in the Premier League and Great Britain to fall short of their medal targets in doubt this is b.b.c. 5 live with the b.b.c. . The e.u. 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