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 552. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about ducal palaces, ancient churches, and theaters and universities, as well star-crossed lovers as we go to

northern Italy to the cities of Mantua, Padua, and Verona.

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

If you're listening to this when it comes out, I'm actually in Israel or on a plane there,

but we got this show out so you could listen to it and not have a week off.

We'll be talking about that more later, I am sure, but for now, let's talk about Northern Italy.

I'd like to welcome the show Gina Museo, who blogs about Italy at Gina Museo.com

and there'll be a link in your show notes in case you don't know how to spell Museo, that's M-U-S-S-I-O.

Gina, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I'm excited.

Gina blogs of Italy, so oddly enough.

We're going to talk about Italy. So we're going to talk actually

Gina pitched me some destinations in between Milan and Venice. So in that great

trip where you fly into Milan and you're heading off to, we're going to tell you what to do in between.

Where to begin? Yeah, absolutely. So first, you're in Italy, actually.

Yeah, I am. I live here. I live near to Milan and I'm able to explore a lot to this area.

And what brought you to Italy besides the plane?

Well, I came to study the language and I stayed because I married an Italian.

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