Hi this is Chris from Amateur Traveler. If you ever had Deja Vu,

will you might get it again because this is a replay episode because I am in Africa

as this episode goes out with some of the listeners of the show. If you're interested in joining me on the next

trip go to amateur traveler.com slash trips.

I got my bags back on a roll

I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my passport photo

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amateur traveler episode 552 today the amateur traveler talks about ducal palaces, ancient

churches, and theaters and universities as well as 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. Let's talk about Northern Italy.

I'd like to welcome the show Gina Museo, who blogs about Italy at genem 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 about Italy, so oddly enough,

if 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 Venice,

we're going to tell you what to do in between.

Where to begin?

Yeah, absolutely. So first,'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.

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