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

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amateur traveler episode 161. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Transylvania.

Sure we'll talk about Dracula but learn what else there is to see in this lovely part of Romania today in the amateur traveler.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. It was a slower

travel news week this week so I only have one story for you before we go into the interview and that one seemed appropriate

but waiting on that one for a couple weeks and if while you're listening to the show

on Transylvania you think that sounds really wonderful you should be aware that the air has put

Dracula's castle up for sale. So if you really want to sink your teeth into

Transylvania, yes and I can't believe that I said that either.

Just check out that story in the show notes at amateur traveler.com.

I'd like to welcome the show Sean from Utah who's come to talk to us about

Transylvania. Sean welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Now when I say

Transylvania some people are going to try and find the country of Transylvania on the map and they're not going to have so much luck.

You probably would find it if you looked on a 14th century map, but you don't find it on a modern map.

And we'd be actually looking for Romania here.

You would be looking for Romania in Eastern Europe.

Most of us know one thing and one thing only about Transylvania, and that's Dracula,

Vlad, Dracula, Vlad the impaler, however you want to call the guy.

Why did you go to Transylvania?

Transylvania really wasn't on my list of places to visit at first and I just happened to be in a bookstore one day and picked up a book.

One of those lonely planning guys on Romania and I looked at and thought, well that looks interesting and I bought the book and

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