La Mesteceni Cluj-Napoca
Salicea nr. 86 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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... the ground is complete with an amphitheater, a lake with boats, a bar, and even a Ferris wheel!
Fun Fact: Salt used to be a very precious mineral, it was known as "white gold". In Latin based languages the word for salary came from salarium, basically meaning "salt money".
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Cluj-Napoca
... un-official capital of the Transylvania region. Here we just did a quick tour of the city center. We saw the birth place of Matthias Corvinus, one of the Kings of Hungary, St. Michael's Church, along with some other touristy things that you can see in my ...
The best of Eastern Europe
Into Romania we go! We arrived at 9:30pm and immediately thought 'where the hell and why the hell are we here!' It was ok though. We stayed at Retro Hostel, which was again about 10.00 euro a night, with friendly and helpful staff and decent location.
We didn’t spend a great deal of time there but of what we saw it ...
We're all in this together
... new Romanian friend 'Horatio' said on the train from Timisoara to Cluj Napoca (I meant to speak about both these places, but again I've got carried away), "we're all in this together". Yes, he sounds like David Cameron (unfortunately) but he has a point. We are all human beings in this world together and we spend too much time, in my opinion, focusing on the differences between us. I love that feeling of exploring and getting ...
Heading home
... br> I'll send one more wrap-up entry about the last week, but I wanted to update everyone about an exciting final week here. It was a mixed week, with 3 days spent in the lab and 2 in the field. The field days were so much fun! I was working in the last test pit, with Claren (a fellow Albertan who grew up on a ranch near Waterton National Park). We kept pulling up ...

