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Bukareszt - 1 maja w rytmie latino, Bucharest, Romania travel blog

Bukareszt - 1 maja w rytmie latino

A travel blog entry by camer

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Do Bukaresztu dotarliśmy dość późno a w dodatku jako, że nie mieliśmy przez cały dzień dostępu do internetu i nie wiedzieliśmy czy któryś z hostów odpowiedział na nasza prośbę o ...

Met Bob de Bouwer in Roemenie, Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

Met Bob de Bouwer in Roemenie

A travel blog entry by renate

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Alweer ben ik in Wenen geweest zonder in het Prater reuzenrad te hebben gezeten! :-( Wel nog gezien: Paleis Schonbrunn (Alles! Nou goed - de dierentuin niet, die komt volgende keer wel. Maar de tuinen, de Gloriette, de lange tour van het paleis, en de ...

Brasov Transylvania, Romania, Transylvania Romania, Romania travel blog

Brasov Transylvania, Romania

A travel blog entry by martinlizama

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Brasov, Romania, Braşov, Romania travel blog

Brasov, Romania

A travel blog entry by lukeandbelinda

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... two beers at once, which I somehow managed. Germany has had a big influence here so most of the beers are spectacular. Romania also has a strong shopping culture, as did Bulgaria. I think many people from around Europe travel here to shop and pick up a ...

Translyvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania travel blog

Translyvania

A travel blog entry by mviglianco

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... , that had not been checked one single time prior. I believe it's used to allocate money to the different national rail systems. Romania is definitely making sure they get their share. Cluj Napoca isn't much to look at but it's a good stop between ...

Sibiu, Sibime, Say It For Always, Sibiu, Romania travel blog

Sibiu, Sibime, Say It For Always

A travel blog entry by calivoodoo

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... it came to a whopping total of $9. Now that's what I'm talking about! However, figuring out price quotes still poses a problem. Romania recently slashed 4 zeros off of its currency, but both old and new notes (which btw are made out of plastic) are ...

Times New Romania, Bucharest, Romania travel blog

Times New Romania

A travel blog entry by binni

Got in yesterday morning on the overnight train from Bulgaria, met two nice Aussie boys who I had breakfast with before having a wander and coincientaly checking into the same hostel. After a morning nap, spent much of today with my housemate's dad - ...

Bucovina, Suceava, Romania travel blog

Bucovina

A travel blog entry by sonyann

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Suceava, la capitale roumaine de Bucovine (le nom de la region est partage avec l'Ukraine), nous accueille dans un etat moyennement frais, la faute a notre naive esperance qu'un train de nuit offrirait forcement des couchettes. Humeur un peu morose, ...

Heaven, Romania, Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

Heaven, Romania

A travel blog entry by sarakmills

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... morning.  We spent a day with a local guide, Nikolai, who is a good friend of Ramona's.  This area of Romania combines modernity with tradition, and it seems that everyone knows each other in a charming small-town kind of way, but most houses ...

One down, one to go., Brasov, Romania travel blog

One down, one to go.

A travel blog entry by tonypop

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So: Christmas is over. The snow is gone. I hate my scale. In this order let me start with Christmas: Well here is all about the food and the booze, and if I sound like a broken record it's because I cannot stress enough the importance of these two ...

From the mountain-top, Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

From the mountain-top

A travel blog entry by tlloyd

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... ago.  It started life as a Catholic church and changed with the Reformation, as with most churches in this historically German region of Romania (though most of the Germans left long ago).    Next time we come (ha, ha) we'll be sure to ...

Debrecen to Sighisoara (Romania), Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

Debrecen to Sighisoara (Romania)

A travel blog entry by lintonandjames

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... , let’s leave it at that. The afternoon though was incredible as we began to head into the heart of Romania approaching the Transylvanian Plateau, here the landscape changed dramatically with the flat plains being replaced by endless rolling hills. ...

The impressive Alba Iulia, Alba Iulia, Romania travel blog

The impressive Alba Iulia

A travel blog entry by claudiarebecca

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... - Vallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, made by Michael the Great in 1600 in Alba Iulia. In this Cathedral was crowned as king of Romania Ferdinand. The Cathedral is enormous, might be the biggest in Romania. The next day, after a very early coffee, we ...

Dracula country, Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

Dracula country

A travel blog entry by laine

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... so far we have seen the odd horse and cart getting about, with old looking farmers driving them along busy modern roads. Well while in Romania we have past dozens of them, some with a famer or two and a huge pile of hay, some with tree branches, some ...

danube delta, Delta, Romania travel blog

danube delta

A travel blog entry by fabien

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so wonderful landscape where you can only go with ...

The long night trip and the Hunyads castle, Hunedoara, Romania travel blog

The long night trip and the Hunyads castle

A travel blog entry by claudiarebecca

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I'm writing about this trip after we've finished it - it was so full and intense that we filled a notebook with sketches and stories to tell our tourists... Altough we planned this trip for quite a while, we really decided to leave all of a sudden ...

More blood sucking, Cluj Napoca, Romania travel blog

More blood sucking

A travel blog entry by chrisab14

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Today was a good, but long, day. Im running out of time so I will fill in more later. But basically first we went around the city of Brasov which was really pretty, and they have a HOLLYWOOD style sign for the city on the hill. We explored that for a ...

Probably the worst city in the world, Iasi, Romania travel blog

Probably the worst city in the world

A travel blog entry by aga-and-maciek

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... Mare statue in front. Then miraculously it stopped raining and the sun appeared - the only rainy half of the day in Romania was over for us. It did not help much though, because both Metropolitan Catherdral and Three Saints Basilica were also undergoing ...

Brasov, Brasov, Romania travel blog

Brasov

A travel blog entry by jag

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Brasov was our main base for day trips to the nearby castle of Bran, Rasnov and Sinaia. Brasnov had a very beautiful cobbled main square and surrounding buildings all decorated in bright colours. Here we visited the gothic Black Church, caught the Tampa ...

Narrow start, Kolozsvár, Romania travel blog

Narrow start

A travel blog entry by csaladenes

It is was a narrow start for my 2010 USA University trip... I was at school from 10am till 7pm and, of course I had packed nothing in beforehands. The bus was rolling out at 11 from the other end of the city and I juust made it, as always. Let's see how ...

Dracula's Castle, Bran, Romania travel blog

Dracula's Castle

A travel blog entry by laine

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27/6-28/6 We woke up to the smell of rain and by the time we arrived at Sinaia it was poring with rain. We were going to wait it out, so we could find where the palace was and a few other touristy things, but it just didn't want to stop. After an ...

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania travel blog

Bucharest

A travel blog entry by laine

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... seems to be a lot of poverty about, and as a taxi driver said the honest people aren't making the money. Despite this I have to say Romania is great, and we have had no problems at all, a must do. There are also meant to be lots of bears in the woods, ...

A medieval town we wish could have visited longer, Brasov, Romania travel blog

A medieval town we wish could have visited longer

A travel blog entry by tlloyd

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Brasov is a beautifully preserved walled-in German town in Transylvania.  We would have loved to been able to stay and maybe sing a concert in one of the Lutheran churches with magnificent ...

Hills, hils, and Hills, Hateg, Romania travel blog

Hills, hils, and Hills

A travel blog entry by claudiarebecca

We've spent the time driving around and taking a picnic. We talked with the locals and we tried to learn the Hategana dance, originary from here. Terrible roads - but great ...

Delightful city, Sibiu, Romania travel blog

Delightful city

A travel blog entry by claudiarebecca

Sibiu is a delightful city, small - about 250 000 people, but ready to make your staying one of the best in Romania. The city, on its German name Hermannstadt, was founded in the 12 century and in 2007 was Cultural European Capital. The Bruckenthal Palace ...

A place where the time stopped, Poienile Izei, Romania travel blog

A place where the time stopped

A travel blog entry by aga-and-maciek

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... Izei, a village not far away from the border crossing at Sighetu Marmaţiei - Hostel Muntean (http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/romania/sighet-marmatiei/59543/). The place was... decent at most, no beautiful views that we could have sleeping a few ...

Siebenbuergen, Hermannstadt (Rom. Sibiu), Romania travel blog

Siebenbuergen

A travel blog entry by dresden

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Day 51 of travelling and 5700km are gone. I spend a night in the mountains on a lake on the way from Bukarest to Hermannstadt. I went to Siebenbuergen - Transilvanian, to Hermannstadt (Rom. Sibiu) and Kronstadt (Rom. Brasov), each town 1 day. Really ...

Vampires and monks in Transylvania, Brasov, Romania travel blog

Vampires and monks in Transylvania

A travel blog entry by kalendradee

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... us the street name of the place that would ship to the states - Grivitei. The post office at Grivitei only ships within Romania. What a wonderful day. We brought my stuff back to the hostel and then went in search of Carrefour for groceries. We spent too ...

Transylvania, Brasov, Romania travel blog

Transylvania

A travel blog entry by bsuarez

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... a country, there can be so many different influences based on who ruled over that part of the country at any certain time. Also, Romania is cheap. Lots of food for less than two dollars. Alcohol for three dollars. Heineken bottles for 1.40 dollars. I like ...

before departure, Brasov/Sibiu/Sighisoara, Romania travel blog

before departure

A travel blog entry by enigmatika

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my dear friends:) many of you told me recently how they missed to hear about me and my adventures:) well..indeed there were no adventures lately , just office and school as always but in my mind the thought of doing something crazy rised a few ...

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