Dordogne - Part 2
Before driving home on Sunday we went to see cave man art in the only original cave painting left in France that is open to tourists (all the others have been closed down due to conservation and this one only allows in limited numbers each day and they keep an eye on temperatures and humidity to help preserve the paintings). The entire tour was in French so Doug had to act as interpreter for us whispering throughout the whole thing with everyone kinda giving us weird looks except the other English person who kept trying to stand closer to us to hear too! So the interesting thing was that they really can't tell much about the paintings and the scientists are just making educated guesses to age and how they were painted.
(we couldn't take photos in the cave but I bought some postcards to scan in - will come soon)Then we went to a Troglodyte Chateau. It was a weird combination of cave house and nice chateau, some rooms were like caves and others looked like you were in a normal chateau. I guess at some point the noble of the area decided that living in a chateau was better then living in a cave...
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