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 738. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about a mining museum and

reggae festival, the Danube and a love bank, castles and the Carpathians as we go to Slovakia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Slovakia. I'd like to welcome to show Peter and Anna from the Slovak spectator and the spectacular Slovakia podcast.

Anna's last name is Fay and Peter I'm going to let you say your last name yourself because

we have erased all of my terrible efforts are pronouncing it.

Also my last name is Doha Poets.

There you go.

Excellent.

Peter and Anna, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

We're talking today, oddly enough, about Slovakia.

Since you're coming from the Spectacular Slovakia podcast, I suspect you may know something about the country.

A few things.

A few things. things.

Why should someone, well first of all, let's put it on a map because the last time we did an episode

on Slovakia which has been something like seven years, we talked to someone who moved to the country and said all

of their friends had no idea where this country was. So where are we talking about

when we're talking about Slovakia? So Slovakia is, I would say, dead center Europe.

So it borders Austria, the Czech Republic, Ukraine,

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