http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Romania , Transilvania , Sibiu , Sibiu en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:42 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:42 +0000 Fie ca alegeti un city break cultural si vreti sa descoperiti un oras european sau oferiti un cadou de 8 Martie sau pur si simplu mergeti la un concert un festival un eveniment martie este luna potrivita pentru ca este inceputul sezonului turistic si puteti profita de prmele oferte.Va recomand cateva top destinatii turistice europene pentru un o vacanta placuta de primavara. Si daca nu va h http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-772927.html httpinfocazaresiturism.blogspot.ro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-753899.html Un oras interesant cu o zona pietonala ok. am stat la hotel Silva 250 lei aprox 60 EuroHotelul are 3 stele si le merita din plin.Singurul dezavantaj minor a fost lipsa aerului conditionat. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-739874.html We went up a hill after getting keys from somebody. It was very pretty. We did a lot of videos and pictures. We went up a clock tower. We tried to hurry down before the bells did not ring but they did. We went to a park and I saw a lot of snow and jumped in it. I got wet and daddy brought everything but socks so I had to use my gloves on my feet. Sofia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-696821.html We have each settled into a morning routine. It39s nice to have separate bedrooms and two bathrooms. Only one shower tho. And what a shower ... it is a tiny stall shower installed in a corner of a small bathroom. It is a removable shower head and we discovered that the reason it39s removable is because it39s otherwise impossible to get far enough away from the shower to rinse off. T http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-652984.html Romania39s got beauty indeed. I think I39ve never denied it but I39ve never embraced the idea either. But ROMANIA HAS GOT BEAUTY. Beauty we do not promote or capitalise on but nevertheless Romania39s got tremendous natural and manmade beauty. History. Culture. Despite the horrible weather I went into raptures about the historical monuments cathedrals and sites we visited this pa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-610811.html Having arranged accomodation through couchsurfing again I found myself in Sibiu's main sqaure waiting for my host to come pick me up after finishing work. Alexander was his name and sales was his game. He was also a fairly high standing member of the Romanian Orthodox church as I was to soon find out.Unfortunately due to committments I had only one night and day in Sibiu. As Europe's cultural cap http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-582201.html It is really cool that the 7th grade kids remember me from my last visit. If I'm fortunate enough to return I will certainly remember at least some of them personally. The teacher was about 10 minutes late to class so when I asked the class if everyone was there and they said yes I took it on myself to begin the lesson. They said their current assignment was to write a short paper on Leonard da http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-495459.html A successful tourist city is a doubleedged sword. It provides jobs and prominence. But for someone like me it is more tourist shops than normal shows more outoftowners than locals and the question of the town's true identity.I spent the better part of the day with a couple classes of second graders. Their knowledge of English is so limited than it's really just about paying attention to them. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-495223.html This is the day I was looking forward to. Some time with the kids. N. drove us to school because of his afterschool plans. I walked around the center a bit until the English classes started. Word spread that I was there as many of the older kids may have remembered my last visit. Unfortunately I really couldn't identify any of them but they flocked around be nevertheless. Their bright faces wer http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-495044.html Meal time at N.'s house in Sibiu is always a glorious hodgepodge affair of food grabbed from the fridge supplemented by the ocassional new aspect. Breakfast lunch or dinner there is not a firm division of types of food for each one. After breakfast Nick and I went for a brisk walk in the warm sun to attend the weekly gettogether of the local philatelic association... the half that meets in the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-494922.html Sibiu day 78 June 1314A return trip in our van with the wooden bench seat to Sighisoura where we caught a local mini bus to Sibiu. The bus was packed but we arrived in good time our driver handling the crazy overtaking of other vehicles. A taxi took us to a hotel a bit out of town so we would need to relay on taxis to get us around.A visit to the local art museum and a walk around the old http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-424714.html Ok as I already thought things never go exactly as you plan them.Due to technical problems this pc of mine seems to be older than I am and I am not getting any younger either I couldnt upload my pics from the last days of travel around Sibiu.Finally here I am hoping that I ll finish what I've started a few weeks ago.Although the plan was to visit most of the saxon fortified churches aro http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-317878.html The next day we were planning to take the bus to Medias then from there the bus to Biertan and after visiting the village we would have walked 5 km till the next village Richis... but because the night before we arrived at the hotel after 11 PM waking up early in the morning wasnt so easy.Actually we've missed the 11 AM bus to Medias only by 5 minutes. So we decided to take the 1257 train but http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-307901.html Perfect timing for a short summer holiday. We had the greatest weather although the last month it has been raining all over the country.For a long time I was planning to visit the saxons fortified churches. In Transylvania there are a lot of them some very well preserved and famous others very close to become ruins.After I've done some research I printed the maps and tried to establish an itin http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-307619.html SIBIU TRANSILVANIA EUROPE CAPITAL OF CULTURELlegando a Sibiu por la madrugada en el midnight train desde Bucharest aproximadamente 5 hrs. Curiosamente la unica forma de saber cual es la parada es viendo el tiquete y calculando la hora de llegada no senales no gritos o anuncios de llegada a alguna ciudad y poca gente camina por los pasillos del tren....afortunadamente encontre a alguien que http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-267175.html Use the blessed chance that of being a human to make the world better fairer and more beautiful not only for mankind but for the whole nature Herman Oberth one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.After 3 wonderful days in Sighisoara we were heading towards Sibiu. Bought ourselves tickets to the minibus and 2 hours later there we were Since Friday the weather was very http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Romania/Transilvania/Sibiu/Sibiu/blog-160189.html