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Cluj-Napoca Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cluj-Napoca, Romania
First entry on world wide adventures!
... hike to Brusov to see Dracula's castle and have a few pints of blood! mmmm tasty! So far I have had a wonderful stay in Romania and have found the people to be more than hospitable and friendly (aside from the guy in bucharest who tried to steal my ...
The best of Eastern Europe
... night because the town is littered with beautiful girls! We walked the streets, saw the Botanic Gardens (which we paid for??) and it looked like a bunch of trees and a stream with a fence around it! Well done Romania…a cool little city ...
Highlights
:( Necajala mare, back to business. Pe langa ca trebuie sa imi rezolv 1000 de hartii, am mai accpetat sa si lucrez la job fo douaj de ore in cele 3 saptamani. Si am si "surprize" pregatite, asteapta numai. Dar inainte de a mi se taia apetitul de ...
ROMANIA - Maramures and Bucovina
... the white and big house of Mathias Corvinus, a middle age hungarian king considered an heroe by romanians and hungarians. Cluj Napoca has a great minority of hungarians as this region belonged to Hungary and Austrian Empire along many centuries. We ...
Now this place is having trouble...
Cluj is my favorite part of Romania, it is a bit touristy and has a great garden. Mostly, though, it seems to have more employment than the rest of Romania and I am not sure why. To eat a meal in one of the cafes is to join a community of sorts, usually ...
Let it pour!
I spent an hour today staring at the grey sky. My thoughts were plenty and as grey as the sky i stared into. I was overwhelmed with how to deal with them, having had few problems with my thoughts of this kind over the past couple of months i was struck ...
Cluj-Napoca
The past two days we spent in Cluj-Napoca was at our first couch surf! Our host was a very kind and fun French teacher named Michael. He had lived in Poland for a while with his girlfriend, and then they both moved to Romania for her work. There ...
Dus cu pluta
... firmei si in masina lui. Si ce crezi ca gasesc in masina lui? O servieta plina cu stampile, stampila cu timbru sec a primariei Cluj, stampila cu semnatura lui Boc, stampila cu semnatura arhitectului sef al orasului. De ce e acuzat acum Marius, de fals, uz ...
We Don't Like Cluj...
The train from Sighisoara to Cluj Napoca was another sauna experience. I had opened the window, but the elderly woman in our berth asked me to close it (though she herself was sweating). The only good thing about Cluj was a brilliant candy store in which ...
Evangelical quarks or lack thereof
We all met for breakfast, then took a lightly guided tour of the city center, starting with the UCSP Unitarian Center for Students & Pilgrims, which houses both the János Zsigmond Unitárius Kollégium and the Unitarian headquarters for Erdély ...
We're all in this together
... comes and takes your order and brings it to the table. As our 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". ...
The Bishop’s Cracked Walls
We arrived back in Kolozsvár at the bishop's official residence, in the same building as the János Zsigmond Unitárius Kollégium. The building, which was built in the 1500s, isn’t in great shape, as there are large cracks in the wall, but like ...
mondter decieves
welll...when time and travelling gather together...it means i am there...it will continue with more enlightnening ...
Latium East
... that Latin characteristics show up in other aspects of the culture, like red tile roofs and city-center parks. All in all Cluj-Napoca is nice, though without any obvious tourists or attractions… except girls, I hear. It seems as if the ...
Ole Ole Ole
... crowd in celebratory mode. Making enquiries, I discovered that this street party was in honour of the newly founded Universitatea Cluj-Napoca football team, thus explaining the large groups of rowdy, drunk men, sweaty kids, and smoke flares. I arrived ...
Brought up to think the worst about this place....
... complete ;-) This made me happy for a few reasons but probably most importantly because this isn't the first city in Romania I visited, I actually had a 4 hour stopover on the train in a place called Timisoara on the West of Romania, and it scared ...
Stubborn Horses and Beautiful Gorges
... also a car. We arranged some horse riding for that afternoon and headed off, armed with our new information about North Romania. The horse riding was enjoyable, but not what was expected. Our steeds were the most stubborn animals we have met ...
Innen indultam
A sok grafika utan, lehet, hogy igazi munkat is kapok az Emersonnal. Meglatjuk, "mit ad a ...
Romanian cemetary
Romania is third-world beautiful. Passed through rolling hills and farmed valleys, following a river, beautiful in spite of the trash lining the banks. The houses were old shingled cottages side by side with communist era apartment towers. The ...
Greetings from a bench...
It was chilly late-summer evening, when I got on the train bound for Kolozsvár a couple of hours ago, back home in Csíkszereda, now it's 4 in the morning and I'm freezing here on this bench. This time it is only me. Our party is due to increase to ...
ulm
ok....i'm having a short trip to Ulm ( DE ) ...leaving tomorow with 2 friends of mines and back in 3 days :( ...let's shop and have ...
Heading home
Wow! I can't believe how quickly the last 5 weeks have flown by. Its 5am on Saturday now, and I'm packed and ready to leave the hotel. Five of us are catching the 6:15 train back to Budapest. I'm looking forward to a few hours ...
Serious work and 40 degree heat!
... too many days since I last posted. Lots to tell everyone, so here goes… When I left you last, I'd basically just arrived in Cluj and met the group that I’ll be working with over the 5 weeks. Since then, we’ve gotten into the ...
A Leisurely Day in Cluj
I didn't spend too much time in Timisoara since there was too much else to get done. The next stop was to head to Cluj Napoca and try to get in on some caving adventure. The train ride to Cluj was uneventful and relaxing. I don't care ...
Best roads and most misleading names
... and turns and breathtaking views. My pictures fail to do them justice. I would come back to Romania just to drive around. We made it into Cluj-Napoca in the late afternoon to try to find the camping spot that Lonely Planet has (the ...
Cluj-Napoca
... , I've broken this one up by all of the different cities we visited. The first stop on out Transylvania trip was in Cluj-Napoca, the un-official capital of the Transylvania region. Here we just did a quick tour of the city center. We saw the ...
Circus Tricks and Thunder Storms
I've just finished up a fun, relaxing weekend in Cluj. Today was fantastic – a visit to the mall with Chelsea (a real mall with tons of stores, a food court, a cinema and even a fountain)! I felt like I’d taken a wrong turn and ended up ...