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- Bucharest
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- Leu (ROL)
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- 22,364,022
- Population
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Romania
Travel Blogs from Romania
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 ...
Tour of Churches – Ádámos
Our next stop was Ádámos (Adamus), Rev. Szentgyörgyi's hometown! We met Fülöp Dezső Alpár tiszteletes úr (Rev. Dezső Alpár Fülöp) there, after passing Sándor’s parents’ house. Contrary to our now usual practice, we ...
Tour of Churches – Küküllődombó
On to Küküllődombó (Dîmbău), where the minister was not home, but his two sons and his wife (the church organist) spent some time with us. The minister's wife was very happy to show off their organ, which was gorgeous, and played "Nearer My ...
The Clock Tower - Oct. 19 Part 1
... on a hill near a small town. By the time my trip was over, I was to see many such fortifications all over Romania, and Hungary. I am still new enough to Europe that I found it fascinating. I hope I never become blase about such things. ...
I love the coffee shop
It is hard to describe why or how much I love the coffee shop and just being able to help those lovely ladies. Today was a good day because of my time with them. Funny story: an American came into the shop and told me I had a great American accent. In ...
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 ...
Giving Thanks
... several of us volunteers are putting together. I will be traveling to Zalue, which is a city in the northcentral part of Romania. I'm making No-Bake Cookies to take with me, and everyone has to bring something to accompany the large amounts of Turkey ...