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Amateur Traveler episode 516. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about beautiful beaches,

Phoenician and Roman ruins, mullet, and some of the oldest people in the world as we go to the island of Sardinia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll be hearing more

from our sponsor Select Italy but first let's talk about Sardinia. I'd like to welcome to the show Max Hartzhorn who is the editor and

owner of Go-nomad.com. Max welcome to the show.

Good to be with you, Chris.

And Max is talking about something that we plugged two weeks ago on the show,

and that is the island of Sardinia.

Where is Sardinia, first of all,

because I'm not sure that everybody even can find this on a map.

Well, there's a big island next to another big island to the left of Italy, and one of them is Corsica on the top and below that is Sardinia which is an

independently run province of Italy it's a governmentally on its own autonomous province Sardinia. The second largest

Italian island, the first is Sicily. It's right below Corsica.

Okay. And we made one reference to why you should go there in that show that we did two weeks ago, but Max, why do you think we should go to Sardinia?

Italy is full of people that have gone to the big three. I talked to one of my travel

writing friends and she said I'm going to Italy. I'm going to Rome, Venice, and

Florence. I said, ugh, not that those aren't great places, Chris, but a place like Sardinia is so much more spectacular and so much less crowded.

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