I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 350. Today the amateur traveler talks about

hill towns, hidden hot springs, and of course wine as we go to the hill towns of

Southern Tuscany. Tuscany. Welcome to the city one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not to the

day.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into

the interview I do have one news story for you today and that is that a British

citizen Graham Hughes just recently crossed into South and that was his

was his two hundred and first of the two hundred and first of the two hundred and one

sovereign states in the world and it is rare to find someone who has traveled all of them

but he is the first one that has done the whole thing without flying and of course one

advantage that he has is that South Sudan is the newest country in the world so not that

many have been there for a link to that story check out the show notes at

amateur traveler.com I'd like to welcome the show Mary Joe Manzanaris who is coming to us from

traveling with M.J. and come to talk to us about some of the hill towns in

southern Tuscany. Mary Joe welcome to the show show. Thanks, Chris, good to be here.

And Mary Joe, you pitched a show on Italy, and I have to apologize if some people think that we've done

Italy too many times because we have talked about it quite a lot for being such a small country, but I happen to love Italy.

As do I. Now you were talking about going to some of the lesser known towns at least not the big three in Italy so not

Rome and Florence and Venice but some of these smaller towns in Italy

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