Pensiunea Pel Flora Bran

... Africa. These will be highlights for sure. This story is supposed to be about a beautiful little town called Busteni in the mountains of Romania. Romania has it all. Flat prairies, canola and wheat fields, rolling hills, and mountains. It reminded us of home in the way the bright yellow fields of canola waved in the wind. I am confused about something we saw a lot of. I am sure Mehai can tell us what it was, but I found it interesting to see the concrete things that I ...

... to buy some plastic vampire fangs…We camped the night in the Carpathian Mountains in the shadow of Draculas castle. We were adopted by a stray dog who decided to keep guard of our camp by running round and barking all night. She looked disappointed when we left the next morning.

... and make-up, while there was nobody to be seen in costume. Every now and again, someone would make a sound, a thumbs up, or a hoot but I finally arrived at where the party should have been. They didn't know how to react to me and i ended up going across the street where i found a pub with very enthusiastic patrons. I stopped in for about 2 hours and then went home ... pooped out and tired!!!!!! Fabulous Halloween!!!!

... back on the main road and things got a little calmer. By the time we had arrived in Bran the sky was blue and it was hot and muggy again. Bran is home to Dracula's castle, though it is very unlikely that he was ever here. Either way it is very gothic looking and scary on the outside and absolutely charming and homely on the inside. It was home to Queen Marie in the 1920s and there were lots of pictures of her about. It was ...

... south of here, on and off from 1448 to 1476. Raised and frequently raped in a Turkish prison, he had plenty of pent up anger to unleash on the Ottomans when they invaded his lands. His brutal treatment and torture of his prisoners earned him the name "Impaler." If you'd like to know more about his methods, I suggest you look him up on Wikipedia. They were quite graphic, but not all that uncommon at the time. Today, I visited Bran ...

First of all.. Mark loaded up some more pics from the china trip. :-) It's great to look back over them. We really had such a good time there. OK. im totally over my freakout last weekend. I'm loving romania! We ended up having a pretty early night on Friday. It was pretty quiet because we were all so tired from the night before. It was absolutely freezing though. When i was packing to come here the week before, i looked up the weather report and it was up ...

... exact same plan for the day so I asked her if she would like some company. I should remember that this is a question it's very hard to say no to, and try and figure a way of asking it that gives people an honourable escape if they either a)don't want company or b)don't want my company (unlikely but you can't rule it out). Anyway, I haven't so she duly said yes and missed a bus she would have caught waiting for me to buy a ticket. I hope one day she forgives me, especially as she ...

... True, we were here to visit the town for Vled reasons but were pleasantly surprised at how nice this place was aside from the Vled connection. The place abounds in cobbled streets full of well preserved buildings some now over 600 years old. Add in a bunch of churches (yawn) and the fact we had a yummy quiche and green salad for lunch, the day was a winner from early on. The clock tower we have a shot of was ...

... and a space for the death date. It seemed almost like an invitation. Bit eerie. We`d explored as much as we could though, inside the walls and out. We couldn`t wait to leave this medieval rubbish filled ******** behind! Avoid Sighisoara at the end of July! Brasov We could only buy our train tickets an hour before the first train out of Sighisoara. So 6.30am and I was at the ticket office! In the bar next door the hardened Romanians were on the beers! At the train ...

... backpackers to take back to her ad hoc hostel, basically an apartment converted for that use, entirely DIY auto-pilot. God help you if one of your back-packer buddies leaves the door open or some other such irresponsible nonsense. A couple days of this is enough, but I still like Romania, so book a train to Timisoara.