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 697. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

castles and vineyards and half-timbered houses, the Franco-Prussian War, the Rue de Vain, and Storks as we go to the Alsas region of France.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. I have a very

important announcement for you which is going to be that this is the last

episode of the show in the iTunes Enhanced version now that the MP3 version also has chapters and photos.

But first let's talk about the AllSoss.

I'd like to welcome to the show Brydy Reed from

world vegan travel.com who has come to talk to us about the Alsace.

Brydy, welcome to the show.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you so much for having me.

And I've already learned something because I think I said the Alsace

was the first thing I said, it came out of my mouth when we started

talking and I was saying it wrong.

Where are we talking about?

You want to put it on a map for us?

Yeah, absolutely.

So the Alsace region of France is in the east of France it shares a bit of a border with

Switzerland and also Germany so it's really in the east central part of France.

And there's some things that are unusual about this area which we'll get into,

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