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 536. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about vineyards, a wine festival,

a wine museum, and then some other stuff, but basically we're talking about wine because

we're going to Bordeaux in France.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Stay tuned after this

episode for an update on the two tours that we're doing next year with amateur

traveler but now let's talk about Bordeaux.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Jennifer Dombrowski from Lux Adventure Traveler.com,

who's come back to talk to us about another part of France.

Jennifer, welcome back to the show.

Thanks, Chris. It's nice to be back.

And you happen to be living in France now?

I am. I am living in Bordeaux.

It's a dirty thankless job, but somebody's going to do it.

That's absolutely right. And you pitched me Bordeaux not that it was difficult.

Definitely region I'd love to talk about what we haven't yet on the show but why should

someone come to Bordeaux? I was here a year ago and even just a year before I moved to Bordeaux, a lot has changed.

And it's funny because a lot of people didn't come to Bordeaux.

They knew about Bordeaux because it's such a famous French wine.

But it wasn't a place that people realize is even actually the name of a city in France and

for so long the many wine chateau around Bordeaux were really closed off to the public.

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