Hotel Park Sibiu

... A large castle wall surrounded by a moat is nearby. This town is not covered by my tourist info. It is interesting what makes the list.<br><br>Along the road in several towns, elderly were selling potatoes and onions. These items were identical from person to person and nobody was stopping to buy. I have to think that a couple dollars a day was as much as most were making. <br><br>Our wanderings were well worth the extra time but we arrive in Sibiu well after nightfall and miss the ...

Sibiu is a delightful city, small - about 250 000 people, but ready to make your staying one of the best in Romania.<br>The city, on its German name Hermannstadt, was founded in the 12 century and in 2007 was Cultural European Capital.<br>The Bruckenthal Palace in the Big Plaza, today an art museum and the Evangelic Cathedral are worth a 2-3 hour visit. <br>Also, climbing all the way up in the Council Tower , the 12 century gate of SIbiu, let us see the city from above.<br>Great place!

... happen in the country. It's sort of a spiritual center for Romanians. It is set up against the mountains, and I can see why this place would be used for a holy site like this. The chapels are painted inside like Orthodox churches, and they're beautiful, but people were so rapt inside them that I thought it would be rude to take pictures.<br><br>I'll write next from Brasov, hopefully with some more interesting stories to tell!

... the gist on how they lived. It was neat that by every building they would have pictures of that building before they took it to this museum. It looked like they still used mills, blacksmiths, fullers, and sawmills in the last 100 years! <br><br>Went strolling around the old town some more and I get such a kick out of the street vendors. You will have a lady selling lottery tickets at a simple table on street with all the tickets spread out in ...

... if they get any at all. <br><br>Strolling around my incredibly filling and cheap meal, lol, I climbed the council tower which gave me fantastic views of the old city. It was amazing! I headed back to my hostel as I think I am going to have an early night tonight. I haven't been sleeping well lately and my back has been giving me a lot of troubles. I think it will be a sleeping pill night tonight and I pray that the mattress is a comfortable one!

... a spot for him. When it came to drinking beer, I could only just keep up with him. I had a headache the next day. Timisoara When it was time to move on, I learned going to Belgrade via Timisoara wasn't the smartest route. Trains go directly from Bucharest but from here I would have to go to Timisoara, Romania's most westward-oriented city and the place that played a critical role in the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime, and from there ...

... guests. Drank lots of beer and home-made wine.

... and gestures and point out the way. I thanked him and returned to the trail, taking the first split to the right. After about 30 minutes of walking the trail ended. We returned to the split and went back the way we starting, vowing this time to push through the underbrush towards the vines on the hill. We successfully did this and walked up into the grapes. Then the trail ended. Coming back down I concluded there must only be one further way to go. We started back to the very ...

... if it was as good as some I have seen previously, but Lucy would not let me !!!!! Sighisoara All I have ever read about this town is that is a walled city and a good place to go to. So we had to go. We jumped off of the train and there were crowds everywhere. We found a room and was told that there was a festival taking place. A medieval one at that. We walked in. From a distance, the town looks good. As we started to go towards the gate, there was feral type people everywhere ...

... types that stop EVERYWHERE. I mean train stations in the middle of a cornfield. They are also the dirtiest OLDEST trains. These trains are older than my parents. Also, Romanians believe that riding with the train windows down is dirty. Somehow it isn't dirty for it to be 90 outside and riding with all the windows up with people who have never heard of deodorant however. Don't know