Browsing Tag

Romania

Travel blog

Driving Romania: Our Top 7 Picks of Sites to See

By on May 10, 2014

The best way to see a wonderful mixture of the culture and the beauty of Romania is by driving. We’ve compiled a list of our top 7 sites to…

Travel blog

The Turda Salt Mine, the Seminar and Cluj

By on May 5, 2014

It’s not as if we’ve got a thing for salt, exactly. It just seems to crop up along our travels. The salt flats in Sicily; the salt canyon outside…

Travel blog

The Harghita Region Part 2: Slow Travel in Corund

By on April 28, 2014

Our first impression of Corund was: tourist town. The main road/hiway through had booths and shops with typical from-the-area wares. Woven baskets, traditional Szekerland costumes and ceramics. Many of…

Travel blog

The Hungarian Area of Transylvania: Harghita

By on April 21, 2014

For those of you (like us) that didn’t realize, there’s a solid Hungarian presence in the center of Romania. The area, Harghita, is unique, complex and interesting. Curious, almost.
We…

Travel blog

Discovering Village Life in Romania: Sinca Noua

By on April 13, 2014

After having a few cold and rainy days in Brasov, we made our way to the small village of Şinca Nouă. The drive through the mountains were reminiscent of…

Travel blog

The Danube Delta in Romania, Plus a Few Bits and Bobs

By on April 8, 2014

I might admit I can be a little cynical at times in our travels. I do catch the ‘seen one, seen them all’ virus from time to time. Not…

Fun Facts

Romania: An Unusual Factsheet for An Unusual Country

By on April 2, 2014

Many times, we come across the same information presented in exactly the same way- in the case of Romania, it’s about the Parliament (2nd largest building in the world,…

Travel blog

Romancing Romania: Bucharest and Constanta

By on March 31, 2014

We made it safely across the Romanian border with a new stamp in my passport, and made our way to Bucharest. We’d searched for any interesting sites before arriving,…