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 427. Today the amateur traveler talks about beach side towns,

Atruscan tombs and Roman ruins as we go to Lazzio in Italy.

I know that I should be heading home.

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

into this week's interview I do have just one little announcement and

that is that amateur traveler just turned nine years old. The very first episode of Amateur Traveler was released

on July 2, 2005. So thank you so much for listening and making this all worthwhile.

We're going to celebrate this anniversary

as we have celebrated all the other anniversaries

by just putting out more good content.

I'd like to welcome the show Nancy Perode.

She covers Senior travel at about.com and also blogs at 60 and

me.com and has come to talk about a particular region in Italy and Nancy where are we going to talk about this week?

We're going to talk about the Latsio region. Latsio is most famous for being the location of

Rome obviously one of the most popular destinations in Italy, but beyond

Rome there's so much to see and do in Latsu.

It's a wonderful place to visit.

Excellent.

And we have done an episode on Rome.

Go check that out if you want to. But I was very intrigued when you were pitching

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