A day in the life, and Ceausescu’s Mad Road
August 27th 2008 27/08/08 - A day in the life, and Ceausescu’s Mad Road
Today we set out to drive along one of the highest roads in Europe - the Transfagarasan which borders on southern Transalvania.
“The road was constructed between 1970 and 1974, as a north-south crossing at the historical border between Transylvania and Wallachia. It came as a response to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by
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