大阪府立大学英語講座 - Traveling with English

There is always something so wonderful about meeting a good friend. It doesn't matter if we saw our friend recently or a very long time ago, we connect heart to heart, mind to mind, and begin this new day, this new moment, once again renewing our friendship. With no friends, what is life?

In popular tourist cities, like Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, it's sometimes very difficult to distinguish between who is a tourist and who is a local resident. Sometimes a tourist will be from a different part of the country. Sometimes a local resident will know very little about his or her city e.g. directions, tourist sites, and restaurants. And in this podcast situation of a relaxed, casual environment, we may not know who is a shop worker, a local resident or a tourist. Actually, this confusion may turn out to be an opportunity to meet new people...and that's part of the fun in traveling!