Nathans Villa Sighisoara

... on my own. On the first day of the tour, we traveled to Eger, a town east of Budapest with an old castle, a minaret that marks the northernmost point of the last Ottoman invasion, and the Valley of the Beautiful Women where wine cellars dot the road one after the other. I'm sure you can guess my primary purpose of going there. I met up with Erin, who had been on my overnight train from Krakow to Budapest and the walking tour in Budapest with me ...

... You can also look closely at the characters that rotate through the clock face, and there is an observation deck at the top of the tower. The German cemetery, which is up the covered staircase (children used to take the 200 or so steps up to school and the shelter helped keep the stairs from becoming slippery in the rain), is worth a stroll if you have a bit of time (and it’s free, huzzah), though it’s not very different from ...

... the Medieval arms museum, the real house of Dracula is Casa Dracula which was renovated and now is a restaurant. It is a popular tourist attraction. I went back to the hostel around six o`clock and bought some pasta and a bottle of red wine for dinner. Wine was so sweet and terrible,kinda like gluhwein but cold.I placed the bottle in the fridge and told people anyone could have it.A sixteen year old German kid tried and he fell in love with it. He ...

... things are not, like MILK. The kid and I had a brief, unresolved debate over American milk versus British milk. In America we have whole milk, skim, 1%, 2%, soy... He booed these endless choices because the best milk in the world is the two jugs of fresh milk that get delivered to his door every morning by some elderly milkman on a bike. He also misses tea time and plans to drink tea 5 times a day once he gets to his "gran's" in a few ...

... derived by the fact that of course, a better understanding of culture and tradition of a country involves some food and wine tasting: a lovely local bottle of white wine was kindly given to us. Since our 5th Day in Sfantu Gheorghe and also 1st Friday in Romania was matching the town festivity, our program for the day was (surprise, surprise) including a visit the town centre in order to ...

... owner standing in front of the car directing the car to back up out of the driveway, I almost ran him over. Okay, little exaggeration, I stopped as soon as it lunged forward and he hit the deck (j/k), but I'm sure the look on his face, seeing his biggest fear realized, two asians trying to drive off in his car, and the first impression of us was me looking backwards and the car lunging forwards... I'm sure he went home praying that his beloved Hyundai make it back in one ...

... Jujuy, Tanque Silva de la Velez Sarsfield ºi chiar legendarul jucãtor sârb Savo Miloºevic. Antrenorul Marius Lãcãtuº se aratã foarte mulþumit de jucãtorii aduºi pânã acum, însã parcã mai entuziast pare de revenirile, de dupã o foarte mare periaodã, ale lui Mirel Rãdoi, Sorin Ghionea ºi Mihãiþã Pleºan, pe care le considerã niºe veritabile transferuri. Pentru a viziona meciurile live accesati: http://www.sportm.ro/live/

... done...coming from a place of limited, actually undeveloped skill and experience to now understanding the art of community organizing...some have gone into law, some into envtl science prompted by their involvement in this project. Of course, I want to drive to RM to see the community for myself. We take our little rental Citroen (without those important snow tires), and drive along the river and into the mts for about 2 ½ hrs. It's all good ...

... a glass of Romanian moonshine into my hand. There was also some candy, so I reckon that was meant to be breakfast. Eventually, a lot of the groom's people started to show up and share in the revelry. These would probably be other groomsmen and guests of the groom in normal circumstances, but since I was really the only one, these were mostly the male friends of the bride and her brothers. And yes, it was all dudes. After some drinking and good times there ...

... off the train!! Nevertheless, once in Sighisoara we managed to find a place to stay at the house of one of the locals in the centre of the citadel (walled city) and were all set to "see the sights". However, as we discovered, Romanian towns outside Bucharest are not particularly large to the extent that we had covered almost all of the landmarks noted in the lonely planet guide and walked the entire main street in a matter of about two hours ...