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10 Days in Romania -- Weekend in Beautiful Sighisoara

October 18th 2016
We said goodbye to Brasov and set off on the road to Sighisoara where we would be spending the weekend. Almost immediately we saw the ruins of a large castle perched on a hill at the back of a small town. We drove through the town to a castle in the final stages of restoration. This scene was to repeat itself all over Transylvania. Every town and village has a castle or a fortified church, or some ... read more

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The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia - for centuries under the suzerainty of the Turkish Ottoman Empire - secured their autonomy in 1856; they united in 1859 and a few years later adopted the new name of Romania. The country gained recognitio... ... read more

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I always wanted to travel and left Australia when I was 18 to travel around Europe and Asia, working on the way in London and Amsterdam, before settling down in Tel Aviv. We didn't do much travelling for years, just short family holidays in Europe, and then in 2008 we started travelling again. This travel blog starts off with our first trip to Laos and Vietnam. After two years of covid restrictions, we were lucky enough to visit Santorini when there weren't so many tourists and later in the year we did a road trip around southern Italy. This year we celebrated a big anniversary with a short br... full info

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