Korona Sighisoara

... After an hour, I decided it was time to leave as I had entered a world too proper for my taste. <br> I tried to navigate the short, angular, illogical streets of downtown Bucharest with names impossible to pronounce. The city map I was given looked like a bum on an N.Y.C. subway platform was given a piece of paper, a pen and a tab of acid then an hour later asked to draw the way he felt at the moment. Try finding a destination using a map like ...

... br>Costs are dropping dramatically. Bucharest is low, Brasov is lower and Sighisoara is really low. Beer is $1 at a bar. Main courses are $2-3.<br><br>50 Lei note ($17), no change. I am now buying high-quality meals for the cost of a single beer in Helsinki.<br><br>5 minutes after I order, an elderly woman delivers groceries, apparently for my lunch. I observed this in South America with restaurants not stocking much and sending out kids to buy the ...

... was very interesting as on the way there we saw many carts, people working the fields with very old tools, and towns with only dirt roads. It was very cool. The church was great. It was so massive for such a small town, but it used to be very wealthy at one time as it was known as a grape growing region. There is a house beside the church where if you wanted a divorce, they locked you in this room for two weeks supplying you with one bed ...

... fully out. Thank goodness it was still early in the morning so tourists were at a minimum through here, as it would be quite a squeeze. I walked to the north side of the city then along the east and south walls of the city. Really a beautiful walk that I would suggest for people that have some time. Then I made my way over to the Black Tower. I could see the tower but couldn't make out how to get there. Just as I was about to start scaling up a ...

... He had some strange fondness with impaling his enemies and raising them in the air on the long stakes, while they awaited death. It is said to have taken up to 48 hour for these poor souls to die. No he did not have fangs and stalk the night, but it is believed by historians that he did drink blood at times. Vlad was the King of Wallachia a region in southern Romania, it seems he was a pretty gruesome guy and much feared.

25/6-26/6 We drove to Sighisoara via some dodgy looking towns and through a lot of traffic. The country side was nice though, and some of the smaller towns were very charming looking. During our travels 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 being driven by children ...

... the lobby until our train came. They were pretty cool about it. This was my first recent experience on a sleeper car and now that I have experienced it, I will never travel overnight without it. I will pay any price, the ability to lie horizontal while traveling for hours by train is invaluable. The power plug for my laptop only magnifies this value. I'm not sure weather I'm spoiling myself or just creating standards for which I prefer to travel. Regardless, sleeper cars are the way to go.

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... There are some Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox, where you sit, stand, sit, kneel, stand, etc. I would think in this cold weather, it would be best to have the people moving about just to keep warm. One of the cemeteries visited was relatively new - but with an unusual tradition. Maramures region is a wood culture. In the 1930's, a local carver started to create intricately carved crosses, painted blue (representing soul going to heaven), with humourous ...

... large place, so I was able to take in most of what it had to offer today. There's an intact citadel still set prominently on a hill just beyond Piata Trandafirilor, and the backstreets are filled with beautiful old houses that look straight out of a Hungarian provincial city. The mix of churches in the center - Catholic, Reformed, Uniate (Greek-Catholic) and Orthodox - makes for an atmosphere much different from that of Bucharest. It's thus understandable to some degree ...