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amateur traveler episode 465 today the amateur traveler talks about

historic towns, beautiful hikes, Jewish

ghettos, and a church made out of bones as we go to the Czech Republic. 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.

One quick note about last week's show on the Tennessee River Valley, if you had trouble hearing

me on that show, just delete the version you have and download it again.

There was a problem that is now fixed. But now let's hear about the Czech Republic.

I'd like to welcome the show Anthony Henan from Anthony Henan.com

who's come to talk to us about the Czech Republic. Anthony welcome the show. Anthony immediately thought about Prague and that's actually not what we're talking about.

We're talking about the parts of the country that everyone ignores which is all the parts outside of Prague.

We do have another episode on Prague if you want to learn more information about that.

But Anthony,

dealing with all the ignored parts of the Czech Republic.

Anthony, why should we go to the Czech Republic

and then get outside of Prague?

I think in general the Czech Republic is a great introduction to seeing the former

communist countries and more of Central and Eastern Europe in general and the Slavic countries

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