Rimini Cluj-Napoca
20 A Cometei Street, Nr 20 Cluj-Napoca, 3400, Romania
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Salina Turda
... the ground is complete with an amphitheater, a lake with boats, a bar, and even a Ferris wheel!
Fun Fact: Salt used to be a very precious mineral, it was known as "white gold". In Latin based languages the word for salary came from salarium, basically meaning "salt money".
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Cluj-Napoca
I'm going to try to lay out this blog a little differently. Instead of doing one blog with a ton of pictures for the whole trip, I've broken this one up by all of the different cities we visited.
The first stop on out Transylvania trip was in ...
Circus Tricks and Thunder Storms
I've just finished up a fun, relaxing weekend in Cluj. Today was fantastic – a visit to the mall with Chelsea (a real mall with tons of stores, a food court, a cinema and even a fountain)! I felt like I’d taken a wrong turn and ended up anywhere in North America. A real treat for a cool, rainy day. Then, to make the day even better, 5 of us decided to try out an Indian restaurant for dinner. Not only was the food incredible, but ...
Climbing the Székely Rock Day2 (PART1)
... mice are tiny archeologists in this sense, because they routinely dig up shards of clay pottery and sometimes even bones. We were advised by Laci, our host, to dig around these areas where the ground mouse surfaces and perhaps we will find something too. After searching throught quite a few of them, Kinga and I had amassed about ten pieces of pottery, some glazed, some not, some with designs, others without it, and a bone. Some permanent settlement must have been up ...
The Bishop’s Cracked Walls
... no bishop due to wars or other world-shaking events, the kopjafa representing that time was deliberately broken off at the top. Each pole had the name of the bishop, if any, with his years of service, or an explanation of what happened during that time. The poles ranged in color from nearly white to shining ebony, as each was carved from a different type of wood, with the name of the wood inscribed near the bottom.
Despite the exalted position of Bálint ...



