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Amateur Traveler episode 522. Today the amateur traveler talks about markets and

castles, prehistoric caves, fake prehistoric caves, and Richard the Lion-Hearted.

As we go to the Dordon in France.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll hear more from our

sponsor later on. I'm actually recording this sitting at a hotel room in Stockholm,

Sweden, sitting in the beautiful Sheridan Hotel on the waterfront with

views of the beautiful city.

We'll be talking more about that trip in a later show, so first, let's talk about France.

I'd like to welcome Let's talk about France.

I'd like to welcome to the show, Lawrence Nora, from Finding the Universe.com, blogger and photographer,

Lawrence has come to talk to us about the Dordogne.

Lawrence, welcome the show.

Hello, Chris, thank you very much.

And I butcher the name there, but we're talking about a region of France, so I'm going to butcher a lot of things.

Where are we talking about, first of all, can you put it on a map?

So it's probably about five hours south of Paris if you were in a car, and about two hours to the right of

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