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Cluj-Napoca Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Time is money
Perhaps we are romantisying peasant life here in (parts of) eastern Europe. Probably it is hard, and lots of people here would love to trade places with almost anyone in western Europe. Still, it is at least interesting to see, that time is so abundant ...
Welcome to Cluj!
... been busy with travel and getting settled. On Sunday I got up early to catch a 6:40am train from Budapest, Hungary to Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Got some fantastic photos of the train station. It was a 7 hour trip through beautiful scenery – ...
Cluj
... a big residential area. Luckily was only lost for about half and hour and managed to find a main road and get bearings again. Cluj is nice, real city, young city. people friendly as brasov and sig tho didnt get the random hellos like in brasov. felt ...
One night in Cluj
Cluj - Napoca is a nice city right in the middle of Transylvania. I saw the town a bunch of times, because is near my hometown: Oradea. Last February i did a small road trip in Romania during our "Spring Break". Me, my cousin a his girlfriend only stayed ...
Nice Stop Over
It is Sunday at everything except the churches are closed. CLuj has several large churches, one of which is broadcasting its sermon into the plaza. 20 people are standing outside, listening to the service while facing the church. Not sure why they don't ...
La revedere Romania!
... lo staff dell'ostello e dividendo con loro una bottiglia di vino, poi mi incammino verso la stazione. Il treno regionale notturno Cluj Napoca-Nuova Arad č di gran lunga il treno piů sporco e antiquato su cui ho viaggiato finora. Non possiede nemmeno ...
Hungarian Minority: A Minority?
... have lived in the area for centuries. Despite borders changing and land being redistributed to different nation-states, the people have remained there. The Church of St. Michael, located in the center of Cluj-Napoca, is a Hungarian creation. ...
Too much rain leads to a salty day
... a playoff to Tut!). See some cool pictures (not taken by me) here - http://www.360cities.net/image/salina-din-turda-romania. Luckily the weather cleared up on Wednesday and we were able to get back to our building. While the rest of the ...
Romania!
... a break away from the new flat and the blah job would do the body good. I got in touch with Adrian, who lives in Cluj Napoca, the capital of Transylvania. He had couch surfed with my friend Jane when he came to work in Austin. He invited me ...
Cluj-Napoca
Pitkasta aikaa jotain tannekin. Brasovista tuli lahto lauantai-aamuna kohti lantta ja Cluj-Napocaa. Juna oli ylibuukattu, joten paikkavarauksesta huolimatta sain viettaa mukavat viisi ja puoli tuntia seisoskellen kaytavalla. Lopussa alkoi ehka jo vahan ...
lido
hello. i want to know if 24-28 may it is aq good period for swimming at Lido di Jesolo. Thank you! ...
Look At These Fucking Hipsters
... lightning does indeed strike twice. Yikes. A 3-hour bus ride took us back to Transylvania, to the university town of Cluj Napoca. Originally settled by Dacians in the 100s CE, Cluj Napoca is now home to loud fashionistas, an unpleasant number ...
Transylvania
... and the only person we talked with was another guest staying with them from Budapest. On the second day we visited Cluj-Napoca which used to be the second largest city in Hungary. First we visited a large Reformed church and a church ...
The Weirder Side of Cluj
I was eager to get started on the Maramures portion of my trip, but there were a few things I wanted to finish up seeing in Cluj. First up was the Pharmacy Museum. This had been talked up by a few people, but I didn't enjoy it too much. ...
Habitat for Humanity in Romania!
... delayed posting - was having too much fun with my Habitat crew building a house. So as I mentioned in my last post - I am in Cluj (Romania) on a Habitat for Humanity build that was sponsored by my future employer Bain. In fact, there are 6 of us ...
Jun 18, 2010
BORING !!
This was the most boring city of our trip. It took me about 5 months to remember what the hotel looked like. The only thing I did of note was get a haircut where they spoke NO ENGLISH at all. There was a 13 year old boy getting his haircut next to me who ...
night in cluj
... was a complete stranger, a sweet old hard-luck dame who found me wandering around the train station at night in the city of Cluj Napoca. After some frantic gesturing she "talked" me into renting a room in her flat nearby, down a nameless grey street ...
Studentenstadt auf leichtfüßig
Nachts um halb 3 rumänische Zeit werden wir warm und herzlich im Transylvania Hostel empfangen und fällen auch gleich ins Bettchen. Dann heisst es ausschalten. Nach einer kurzen Planungseinheit frühstücken wir um 2 kein Frühstück mehr aber nicht ...
VIA
Kínában a 2005 és 2010 között valamivel több, mint 50 000km autópálya épült. Ebből 9816km a tavaly készült el és majd' 2000km-en át permafroszton halad, azaz "teljesen felfüggesztve", hidakon . Romániában 2005 és 2010 között ...
Phase 2
... been talking about the effects of the government systems in the last century, and the contrasts between the U.S.A., Hungary, and Romania. Hungary, even in these economic times, has been improving since the 1950’s, and especially in the ...
Hungarian Spices in Romania
Cluj Napoca was the city where we focused upon exploration of the Hungarian minority in Romania and their identity. Our first meeting - and I would say my favorite meetings of all the ones we had on travel - was our meeting with ...
Killing Time
We returned the car safely to the travel agents after an hour in the confusing one way systems of Cluj. We have booked an overnight train to Bucharest that leaves around 10.00pm and gets us in just after 7am. We'll grab some breakfast in Bucharest ...