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 486 today the Amateur Traveler episode 486. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about river cruising and

wine, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and more wine. Portugal and still more wine as we cruise the Duaro River with Viking River cruises.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. This is going to be a

different episode of the amateur traveler as it's recorded live. The sound

quality is not going to be quite as good and it's not going to be as heavily edited,

but I hope you'll enjoy this special episode of the amateur traveler.

I'd like to welcome to the show three guests today. It's going to be a little

different show because we're doing this one live and I believe this is the first

episode of the Amateur Traveler ever recorded live after 10 years. So I have three guests with me today and they are in

in order from right to left not that that means anything to you.

Aaron Saunders and John Susa and Mary Quincy and we are all currently on the Viking River Cruzises ship Tordal on the Duaro River in the

Duaro Valley in Portugal and that is basically what we're going to talk about

today is both the

Duaro Valley and this particular way of seeing the

seeing the river, seeing Portugal. We actually started a little bit of

our itinerary. We started in Lisbon and did it, which is not on the Doro River,

did a tour in Lisbon and then came up to the river to Porto and spent,

did anybody know, seven days?

Seven days, cruising up from Porto

all the way up to Salomonka in Spain,

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