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Amateur Traveler episode 517. Today the amateur traveler talks about castles and

gardens, the Reformation, UNES-World Heritage Sites, and Brockworthurst as we go to the heart of Germany on a road trip through

Lutherland.

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

episode today, no guest, just me talking about a recent road trip I did through the heart of Germany.

This is a road trip that I did with the German tourism board, also with help from

Visit Berlin and Air Berlin and context travels that all show up in here.

But it all started with an email that I got from the German tourism board

saying that in 2017, and I'm recording this in July of 2016 for those of you listening later on

but 2017 is going to be the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and they wanted to get the word out about some of the spots in Germany

especially in the old gdior which is where a lot of the reformation related spots in Germany happened. Not all of them. There's some things like

Augsburg and Worms that we won't be talking about today that would be over in the old

Western side of the country.

And I wrote them and said, hey, this might be something

that we should work together on because not only

do I have Amateur Traveler and also

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