Sighsoara Sighisoara

I went to stay at some friends' in Romania for summer '09 they planned a trip to a medieval festival in Sighisoara which was 8hrs away by train from Bucharest where we were originally staying. It was worth it. Even though when we got there we had no clue where we were staying, but somehow things worked out. I highly ...

... on the Romanian railway. The trains look like if they were cleaned up, they could be in a museum! I wish I was on a train that you could either roll down the windows, or if they were clean. There are so many rural living pictures that I would have liked to have taken. You will see old ladies walking amongst chickens and cows on the street's dirt roads, carts being driven by a horse but leading a cow and women busy washing ...

I arrived to Sighisoara at 11 in the morning.This place was small enough to visit in a day so i considered leaving my luggage in the locker room, spending the whole day in the city and taking the night train to Budapest. I could have done it but after a short walk outside,i changed my mind.This place was georgeous. I trusted Lonely Planet and went to Nathan`s Villa.It is two hundred meters left of train station,right next to Ellen`s which is another ...

... to it than just being the 'birthplace of Vlad Tepes.' Yes it could still use a few fresh coats of paint and some of the abandoned buildings could be either torn down or completed (it was difficult to tell if some buildings were meant to be knocked down or were waiting to be finished as they seemed to be left in limbo) but it adds to the character I think. Besides Romania is probably the first country that feels and looks like I expected Eastern Europe to look like.

Day 3 - Oonagh Mccarthy Officially started with being kindly herded up by the Romanian GSEer - Zsuzsa Pilbath's mentor's husband, Laszlo. We then met up with Zsuzsa, her mentor, also called Zsuzsa, and her mentor's daughter, whose name is none other than... Zsuzsa :) In 2 cars, 8 of us made our way from Sfantu Gheorghe, past many a horsedrawn cart and intricately carved pagoda-style home gateways; and through rolling greenness and small dusty villiages ...

... long as to be subject to foreign objects. BRASOV THE TOWN... So from the pictures, we were totally expecting some medieval town located inside of a fortressed wall, with quaint little streets and only small signs of modern civilization. Well, what we got was what you would imagine a medium sized bavarian city to look like bordering a modern day soviet looking urban setting full with 10 story buildings and apartment complexes (run down of course). The part of town we were in ...

... supara pe reprezentantii celor doua peluze, tin sa spun ca mi se pare o alegere deosebit de neinspirata. Sunt de acord ca legea proaspat aprobata de Camera Deputatilor este monumental de proasta, fapt... DORIN GOIAN Fundasul Stelei 27 de ani. Pentru a viziona meciurile live accesati: http://www.sportm.ro/live/ Se caut ...

... and, to me hardest to believe, will clean up after themselves !! AND they say they will clean up from the previous generations of mining. Magda has bought the company line and sincerely trusts what she has been told...and she cannot be faulted... As an environmentalist, there is no doubt about my position. I cannot even begin to think that gold and silver are worth moving mountains and displacing people for...that anything is worth this type of ...

... home very tired-5 hrs on the train really takes it out of you-but yet again satisfied that we had explored yet another of Romania's relatively unknown treasures. Oh and don't let this account detract from just how gorgeous the city actually was (I'll let my pictures tell the real story if I ever get the chance to upload them)-what was there was definitely worth the visit but it is perhaps better to be merely passing through. Lots of love to you all Amy xoxox