I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 662.

Today the Amateur Traveler talks about wineries and woofing hilltop villages and truffles, Vespas and the Dukes of Savoy as we go to Barolo and the Piedmont region of Italy.

Welcome to the amateur traveler from your host Chris Christensen, let's talk about the Piedmont.

I'd like to welcome to show Betsy and Greg Ball from Euro Travel Coach.com who've come to talk to us

about a region, a city, a wine region in the Piedmont in Italy called Barolo.

Betsy and Greg, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for having them.

You're welcome and did I get everything right so far?

Are we on the right track? Yes indeed. Absolutely. And can you put

Barolo on a map for us? Sure. It's up in the northwest part of Italy, south of

Torino a little, and it's a little bit isolated, but it's up in the

northwest of Italy and Piedmont itself means the foothills of the Alps. So from that region from our area that we're talking about on

nice clear days you can see the snow-capped peaks of the Alps in the distance.

Excellent.

And why are we going to suggest that people think about going here with their precious vacation days?

Because Barolo has the most spectacular food and the most amazing wine and the most incredible

vineyards. The scenery is amazing, the combination of all those things makes you want to visit and then

stay for as long as you possibly can. And you have gone back as I recall this you haven't

just done one trip there. We have gone back a couple times and then Betsy and I retired if you want to call it that from university teaching after many years.

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