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 812. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about jagged peaks and

Alpine Meadows, castles and mountain huts, and a strong sense of deja vu as we go back to the south to roll and to the

dolomites.

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

the South to roll of Italy. I'd like to welcome to the show Lynn Neiman from The Wonder Your Way podcast and Wonder Your Way

dot com who's come to talk to us. Wonder Your Way,

Way.com, who's come to talk to us about South Terol.

Lynn, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Chris. I'm very happy to be here.

I almost welcomed you back to the show because we have done a recording

before but it wasn't for my podcast it was for your podcast so we actually have

an episode that's going to be coming out on Lynn's podcast I think in a week about a couple days from when we're doing

this a couple days okay about doing barge cruising in southern France which we've talked about an amateur

traveler a few years back but excellent we're

talking about South Terrell today can you put it on a map for us because this sounds

like it's part of Austria but that is not the case. No, it's not.

It's actually part of Italy.

It is the part that borders Austria, hence a name,

and it used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

prior to World War I. So that's how it got its name

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