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Visiting Sighisoara Romania
... recapture the medieval spirit with fights, songs, dances, etc.
People can visit the Weapon Museum located near Vlad Tepes's birthplace, probably the main attraction of the city. Other main attractions are a very old church on the hill and the cemetery with lots of Germans tombstones, a covered staircase made of wood, that leads up to the church and the cemetery on the hill and the bust of Vlad Tepes.
Anyone can shop in the gift shops ...
Sighhisoara and the Saxon Fortified Churches
... the fortified church. The main tower has a very nasty wide crack running the full height of it, and needs some urgent conservation work. Inside the high walls, the grounds are quite attractive. We see one of the wall towers is a "Bacon Tower", where the villagers used to hang preserved pig meat, which comes in handy if there’s a siege. Inside the church, walls and ceiling are painted but un-adorned, except for the structural joints in the vaulting which ...
A Voyage To The Vampiric Lands!
... character that literally just stood and stared directly at me with eyes that promised great evil. Having read many myths about wizards and conjurors of evil magic, I was worried that such eye contact would cause me great harm and I tried to shuffle strategically from his line of sight. However his eyes followed me with increasing malice. The arrival of these two characters made for quite an intimidating atmosphere and I prayed for the train to arrive. Fortunately for us ...
Forget about Dracula
... Therefore we have had a nice walk around, popping into the churches, taking a look and following the old (dated 17th century) wooden covered stairway up to a Gothic Church on the Hill and a cozy German cemetery - rather like a park to sit around and enjoy the silence, which we did with pleasure. At last, we saved some time to have a lunch at Casa Dracula (yes, the famous Vlad Tepes birthplace has been converted into a restaurant), however resigned seeing rather dull menu ...
Climbing a mountain
... probably not blood sucking) so every tiny cobbled road we took was lined with every piece of Dracula merchandise you could imagine. We visited the museums, climbed the clock tower, visited the church looking over the town and then decided after about two hours that we wanted to get away. Why? There were too many tourists and everywhere we looked there were beautiful mountains that were just asking to be climbed.
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