Maramures Hotel Baia Mare

Str Gheorghe Sincai, 37A Baia Mare, Maramures County, Romania

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Why I love Romania…Explained

A travel blog entry by nadinesmith28

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... and so she gets up early to make cake, dips and soups, anything and everything before she goes to work. Most days she works around 9hrs…and she is 45years old. People here don’t really retire; they work till they can’t work anymore. Then when she comes home from work she goes into her massive yard to work it. She could be planting a new vegetable, picking some of fruit, pruning or just pottering along. Then she cooks dinner, sits down with her family ...

Breb...or is that Brigadoon...

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

15

... I wedged my backpack into the corner, threw my day pack onto the bed, took my shoes off, arranged the duvet and pillows at the head of the bed, and lay down. I couldn't sit up or I would have hit my head. So I lay looking out the window at my feet.

I slept off and on throughout the night. Every time the train pulled up to a station, it would wake me up slightly. At 4:30 the conductor came and told me to get ready for ...

The Village Museum and a little Ukraine

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

10

... knows "the SYSTEM" which is like a
silent code of conduct. It is not the same system as we have in North America, however, and a wee bit of signage would be ever so helpful. That is one thing I am used to seeing at home...signage. I wonder how my European friends would find being in my country without things being clearly spelled out?

Anyhow, I finally followed the invisible line that everyone had obviously learned in school (along with all ...

The Merry Cemetery - Sapanta

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

15

... family members at incredibly cheap prices.

I started talking to one of the women there who did most of the embroidery herself. She asked me if I was married (a common question I got asked in Northern Romania) and if I had children. She then told me she had three children all off at University in Bucharest. In order to make ends meet, her husband has been living and working in Spain for eight years. This was something I heard a lot ...

Train to Romania - Part Two

A travel blog entry by newbeginnings

5

... get off on, but after two stops I figured I was running out of choices. I am getting good at snap decisions and details after! I had no map, but I had the address of the hostel, so began asking people by pointing to me and the address. I discovered over the next few days that although the map I carried everywhere was a lovely map, none of the streets had names posted on them. I guess everyone in town knew which streets were which, so they didn't need ...