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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 442. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about wine and

palaces, mountains and mud baths as we go to Slovakia.

I know that I should be heading

more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not

today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. This is normally

the sponsorship spot. We don't have a sponsor this week, but I do have good news.

It looks like a couple sponsors will be signing up soon so if you are also

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I'd like to welcome Julie Callahan who's coming to us from the world in between

com and come to talk to us about Slovakia. Julie welcome to the show.

Yeah, thank you Chris, thanks for having me. And so I guess the first thing we should

talk about with Slovakia is we're going to surprise a few people who still think there's a country called

Czechoslovakia on the map someplace and or it might be having trouble finding the eastern half of that old country,

being a country in its own right now for a number of years.

When we decided to move to Slovakia three years ago,

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