Economat Sinaia
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The Roman Ruins of Jidova -Oct. 20 Part 3
... however, that life experiences, even the ones we do not remember, have a huge impact on how we grow up, and how we view the world.
For example, my mother was a "stay at home Mom" long before the expression was coined. Because of that, and the fact that we had four children in our family, we did not have a lot of disposable income. I also grew up in a time when going to McDonald's was not a common event, but a rare outing. We did not have all of the different ethnic foods ...
The tip is not included in the price :)
... how many times Aga wanted to turn back and follow the paved road, but that was not an option for me. Eventually we got there and could make our way into the ticket office. Lured by the descriptions in our guide we bought a tour of the first 2 floors (which we never do actually, because we love to explore everything ourselves - this time though, it was not possible). There were not many people in our group, but they were standing out a lot. Old story... there was this ...
Sighisoara to Brasov (guest entry from Martin)
... toast sandwich with English mustard (as I was learning later). At this point I wouldn`t have thought in my worst dreams, that a few days later I would be eating the same – enjoying it. After a few minutes of chatting I was honoured with a charity business card. After two more beers I was honoured with the proposal to cycle together through parts of Hungary and Romania. At this time I didn`t know that I will be travelling with an “old man and his whife” trying ...
Dracula shmacula
... palace was built, died two weeks after completion).
Though for the most part Sinaia struck us as a sleepy little mountain town, there was one thing we found to be a bit quirky, if not a little creepy. During our visit, we ate at three different restaurants, all of which offered identical décor (and evoked the feeling of being in a wedding hall), identical menus and identical wall murals of some dude in a black suit and ...
Impromptu Operatics
We arrived in Brasov to be greeted at the station by Radu. A local man who had moved his family out to LA. He only came back in the Summer to work and, conveniently for us, he had built an apartment in his cousins garden! He drove us there and it was pretty awesome. Our very own little apartment with a TV and everything! First time we'd had that luxury since the Belvedere I believe. We walked back in to town and saw that they were setting up for some sort ...


