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Amateur Traveler episode 49.

Today the amateur traveler talks about quaint fishing villages and smoldering volcanoes as we travel in the footsteps of Odysseus

and go to the Aeolian islands off Sicily. See.

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

We're getting close to our 500th episode, only seven more to go. But today, let's talk about the Aeolian

Islands. I'd like to welcome the show Rick Zulu of Rick Zulu.com travel blogger about Italy who's

come to talk to us about a lesser known destination of Italy Rick welcome to the show

thank you very much Chris it's an honor to be here with you today today. I love your show. I'm a fan and it's an honor to be a guest today. Well, thanks and I say a lesser known destination Italy. I had to look this up. So where are we talking about today? Okay, yeah, these are they called the Aeolian Islands and there are a little volcanic

Cappellego off the coast of Sicily. So if you are looking at Sicily, it's on the north side in the

Tyranian Sea and there's seven little islands there's actually eight but seven that are inhabited and it's a wonderful

destination for people who are a little more adventurous. Okay yeah let's start with that.

Why would someone go?

Because we're going to talk about getting there and it's not a place you're just going to

stumble across.

It's going to take some effort to get there.

So why are we going to take that effort and go to these islands?

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