Hotel Ambient Brasov
Str Aninoasa 5 Brasov, Transylvania, 500085, Romania
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Dictators and Ruins
This blog site doesn't really let me tag all of the cities I visited without expecting me to compose an entry for each one, so I'm just going to record them in the body of my daily entries.
Today we visited Palatul Parlamentului (Palace of the Parliament), formerly referred to by its creator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, as Casa Republicii ( …
Bram's Castle
Perhaps it's questionable that I spent 28 years alive without ever having read "Dracula." It seems like something I'd have covered before age 13, but instead I found myself buying it the week before we left and reading it on the plane. I felt that I had to - while it offers little-to-no actual fact about Vlad Țepeș, it is responsible for …
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Day 3/4 in Brasov
Day 3:
Was planning on going skiing, but we didn't feel up to it so postponed it until Friday. Instead we drove to Rasnov, and visited the old walled fortified city on the hill there. It was really foggy so we couldn't see much from the top, apparently it is quite a view. Afterwards we drove down the road a few minutes to a cave. The cave entrance was a half kilometer walk through a snowy wood, which was quite spectacular. The ...
Bad Weather Day...
... in Romanian.
I went in to the museum. I found most people in the souvenir shops and restaurants very friendly to tourists and able to speak English. However, in an ironic twist, not one person spoke English in any museum I went into, and they were not always very friendly. I kept smiling, but it was getting a little old. I had many people on my trip tell me that they weren't used to tourists and not everyone wanted tourists like they do ...
Vampires, and Bratwurst, and Beers! Oh, my!
... 8220;why is a city in the middle of Romania celebrating Oktoberfest? Isn’t that something Germans do?” Well, yes it is something Germans do and Brasov was founded in the 13th century by German settlers and the city still has a very strong German heritage and a German feel to it. German restaurants and bakeries are common, German street names are sprinkled around the old town, Lutheran church pastors speak German and Brasov even had a ...



