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

in my passport photo.

A amateur traveler episode 814. Today the amateur traveler talks about castles,

abbeys, and palaces, a princess, a love story, and a tragedy as we do a road trip in Austria on the Princess

C. C. Road.

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

Like to welcome to the show Michael January, screenwriter, Author, and Travel Writer.

You can find Michael's work at bargain Travel Europe.com, among other places.

And Michael, you have come to talk to us about Vienna and then a road trip from Vienna.

Welcome to the show first. Thank you. You pitched me the Empress C.C.

Road.

We met unlikely on a jet boat in Idaho.

That is true.

Which was fun, but following the Empress Sissy Road

is quite different from that.

Where are we here?

Let's put it on a map first before we get started talking about it.

Okay, Vienna or Austria is south of Germany, north of Italy, and then stuck between Hungary and Switzerland.

Parts of the Alps are in Austria.

Part of the country is flat and rolling and the other part is very mountainous.

A lot of people know Austria from the Sound of Music,

singing from the mountaintops and all of that. That's from Tyro, from around Salzburg to the west.

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