Va rog, duceti-ma la Sighisoara!

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May 23rd 2009

Published: June 13th 2009

Saturday May 23rd..Today we travelled Northwest to Sighisoara by a dirty old rambling train with lots of character. Our new friend Wieteke from the Netherlands took the train with us because she had also planned to stay a night in Sighisoara. When stepping off the train, it had a distinct small town feel about it. Sighisoara was high and low. The main city was low in the valley in between two moun... Read Full Entry

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Former Council Tower in Sibiu, links Piata Mare with Piata Mica, originally built in 1370 but collapsed in 1586 earthquake.

Gothic Evangelical Church

built between 1300 and 1520, home to tomb of Prince Mihnea the Bad (Vlad Tepes's son)

the good life is on this street

the good life is not on this street

Brukenthal Museum

oldest art gallery in Romania (according to lonely planet)

Sibiu

not sure what this was but it looked really cool and we passed it on the bus..

tages has developed quite the sensitivity to smells in romania

our bus ride was quite smelly back to sighisoara but the sights were beautiful

countryside

on bus from sibiu to sighisoara

country village

15th June 2009

Cheri
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Romanian Wedding and your lack of ....
Now what is this about not having a cultural dance that everyone knows to do automatically at a wedding???? The chicken dance has roots WAY back as far as I can tell. And they probably came from some polka-dancing Germans I would bet...rats!!

15th June 2009

Mom
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scara acoperita
Em, this scara acoperita reminds me of a stairway you used to take up to Flint Hall at Syracuse...what do you think??? ;~) xoxoMOM

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