Silva Sibiu

... of several sites. We still get a good overview by walking around. The city went through a major facelift a few years ago and looks great. <br><br>As we walk town this medieval road, we see bright lights. It is a camera crew shooting a movie. A bunch of people in costumes are waiting for their cues. <br><br>While taking photos of the main square, an American with his daughter approaches me. He is a professional photographer who married a Romanian a few years ago and decided to stay ...

Sibiu is a delightful city, small - about 250 000 people, but ready to make your staying one of the best in Romania.<br>The city, on its German name Hermannstadt, was founded in the 12 century and in 2007 was Cultural European Capital.<br>The Bruckenthal Palace in the Big Plaza, today an art museum and the Evangelic Cathedral are worth a 2-3 hour visit. <br>Also, climbing all the way up in the Council Tower , the 12 century gate of SIbiu, let us see the city from above.<br>Great place!

For almost the entire time I've been writing blog entries, I have been dying to use this priceless pick-up line from my past (worthy of its own entry at the that time, but sadly for you, I was not a blogger then) as a blog entry title. Today, I witnessed the event worthy of this title, and it made me so, so happy.<br><br>I last wrote from Sighisoara, and honestly, not much has happened since that last entry. We spent a ...

... of her. I can't imagine that lasting long on the streets of Winnipeg before someone walks away with them! You also see these old guys with an old style popcorn machine selling little bags of popcorn and others with a soft serve ice cream machine. There people coming into restaurants selling their cheap dollar store items to you and the waiters don't kick them out, and they let them do their selling. They aren't pushy at all which is nice. I had ...

My train ride to Sibiu was a very interesting one. I reserved in a First Class compartment and it is nowhere near the standards of what a Western European train would be! There were stains everywhere and you could hardly see out the window! There were beggars walking around and this guy would drop off a bunch of cheap dollar store items off in your compartment and then come back later to see if you wanted any of them! It was a good thing that ...

... a train to Belgrade. Unfortunately this could not be done in one day. I would arrive in Timisoara at around 22:00 where I would have to take a $62.80 room at Hotel Nord, a bit of a dive across from the train station, because there are no hostels in this town and then I'd have to get up at 05:00 to catch a 06:03 train to Belgrade. After checking in I hit the street in search of cold beverages and a snack, stumbling over some glue sniffers ...

... passed their immigration check and had to walk about 10 minutes on this fenced in road to the Danube river where I saw the little ferry waiting. Hopped on and in 15 minutes I was in Romania. Having no idea what the next step should be, the immigration guy was great and gave me a few options on how to get to Brasov. First step, to walk through this little town, Calafat, and find the but station. This place, being a remote town ...

It was almost noon by the time we decided to leave Sibiu and head towards Bran. Highway was set among and over the naked hills, covered with grass and occasional trees only. On the horizon we could see the Fagaras mountains. We were getting closer and closer to the legendary place of Transylvania. THe castle of Count Dracula. I need to tell you however, that this castle is not the real one; the latter is somewhere north west from Bran in the town called ...

... path, the one that like so many others had become overgrown, and pushed our way through. At the top of a steep hill we found a trail that went deep into the woods. There was no other answer, we had found the way. Unfortunately, we could've come this way with a short 15 minute jaunt, but had turned it into a wandering trudge up and down hills and on random paths for more than 2 hours. Now, on moving into the forest, we had no idea how far it was to Biertan, nor whether or not there ...

... to sell body paintings. We walked in, tried to look, but these ****ing ferals were selling **** everywhere, so we could not see the nice houses that are meant to be there. We walked on. We went up a nice covered walkway and ended up at a church. There were some medieval type of performances going on, so we watched for a while. We did the same the next day, except that we climbed the clock tower, which was pretty cool, and we tried to find the other 10 towers but could only ...