Blogs from Brasov, Transilvania, Romania, Europe - page 4

Po prebrati smer ranajky. Obsluha nam doniesla menu, pre istotu sa pytam ci mame ranajky v cene, bo na menu boli ceny. Potvrdene. Na menu napisane ranajky na izbu za 15 lei, sme to jaksi nepochopili, malo to byt na osobu, tak sme vyratavali aby sme sa vosli do 15 lei. Objednana kava, vajicka, chlieb a frankfurtske parky. Ranajky boli chutne. Zbalenie veci, check out, zaplatenie zuno kartou a otazka z ktorej bus stanice to vlastne ide do brasova. Su tu dve take hlavne bus stanice, vzdialene od seba cca 15 min chodze, na okraji mesta. Na nete sa mi na sto percent nepodarilo vypatrat z ktorej nam to ide. Takze do brasova chodi mirkobus / bus z autogaru na ulici bega. Vyuzili sme sluzby spolocnosti CDI . Chodi cca kazdu hodinu. Od ubytka sme to ... read more

It’s now more than a week since we left Bucharest to travel to Brasov, a moderately large city in Transylvania. The city has a population of around 250,000. We left Bucharest on Easter Monday, which is a public holiday in Romania, and so the traffic through Bucharest was not too bad – or at least significantly better than a normal weekday. The week after Easter was also school holidays and so many people had left Bucharest to travel to the countryside and this was pretty evident from the relatively empty carpark surrounding our apartment. However, a lot of these people had to start work on Tuesday and so the traffic returning to Bucharest was bumper-to-bumper coming towards us – I was pleased that we weren’t part of it. Our trip northwards initially passed fairly flat farmland ... read more

Up now: Halloween, visiting the home country of Dracula and seeing the Transylvanian castles that Vlad III the Impaler resided, in turn, inspiring Bram Stoker's legendary tale. It was a brisk Halloween night when I left Budapest by train for my journey in to the Transylvanian Alps. This party was THE place to be. Vlad, the Impaler himself, invited us all to a killer party at his home, known throughout the lands as Dracula’s Castle. I arrived at the Brasov hostel within hours of departing for the castle. Almost everyone staying at the hostel that night was attending the party, so travelling companions helped pass the 35 minute drive to and from the castle. There were people from all over the world. My hostel covered Brazil, Australia, India, England, Boston, MA, Ireland, and myself; and we ... read more

le We left Sighisoare in the rain. We only had to go 118 Kilometres, so we had plenty of time to enjoy the scenery. The villages are built all along the road. In such a way, there is no opening in between, just an enormous gate to let the horses and carts loaded with hay to get in. Cows, sheep, chooks and geese are running everywhere. Each village has some sort of fortification high on the hill. Bears and Wolves roam the forests but not that close that we could see them. The Saxons and Hungarians settled here during the middle ages. The threat of an invasion from the east resulted in building the fortifications of churches and citadels. The first one of these was in Sachiz. Build between 1493-1525. Like all Transylvanian fortified churches they ... read more

We left on Friday afternoon from Bucharest to Predeal via Intorsura Buzaului. The views near Siriu lake are spectacular and the road is beautiful there. On Saturday I drove from Predeal to Sibiu via Rasnov and Zarnesti and stopped on the way to see the Fagaras citadel. Then we went back on Valea Oltului to Buleta. The road here was a lot worse than I remember, quite crowded and with lots and lots of villages which slowed us down... On Sunday we went back to Bucharest, making a quick detour through Bunesti. Total distance: 796 km... read more