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in my passport photo.

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Amateur Traveler episode 525

Today, the Amateur Traveler goes to eight different countries around the Baltic and North Seas,

looks at six different UNSCO World Heritage Sites and a number of other historic

cities all in 15 days on a Viking Ocean Cruise. Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

This is going to be a long episode.

We'll hear more from our sponsor,

select Italy in a while, but first let's get started.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Mary Joe Manzanaris from Travels with

MJ and my recent travel companion on a pretty amazing trip in the

Baltic. Welcome back to the show Mary Jo.

Thanks Chris, great to be here and it really was an amazing trip and what we're talking

about is a cruise that we both did sponsored I should say by Viking Ocean on and I say the Baltic is really the Baltic and the North Sea, and stop me

if I'm wrong, but the countries that we hit would include Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, and Norway.

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