Villa Schei Brasov
Strada Invatatorilor 21 a Brasov, Transylvania, 2200, Romania
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Another Mountain to Climb...
... evidence of the altars up the top of the mountain when I finally arrived. It took me a while to get up to the top of the mountain. This time I had no one push, pulling or dragging me...just me and my will to succeed. I stopped a few times to rest and drink some water. Many times I passed people going in the opposite direction, but saw few people otherwise. I had my music on and was enjoying the solitude and the beautiful colours surrounding me in the woods.
When ...
Mamma's Got a New Pair of Boots...or Two...
... I was amazed. It is an actual street, the narrowest in Europe, measuring 1.32 meters wide and 83 meters long. It exemplifies the medieval planning of Brasov. I walked down the street and pictured a time when people would have been emptying their chamber pots out the window into the street. I could see how one spark would have destroyed hundreds of homes because they were so close together.
I headed home after that. ...
Brasov, Romania
... I must admit I feel slightly embarrassed when I hear myself saying words like ‘beautiful’ and ‘pretty’, my manliness has been taken down a notch.
Brasov, the city we are in now, has café umbrellas that boast "probably the best city in the world" and it’s difficult to argue, especially with “probably”. The old town section we are staying in and the center of town resembles a small German village ...
Bram's Castle
... tour, after all. So by this point in the trip, I'm all sucked in by this book, which tells of Bran Castle and the Romanian countryside in florid detail, despite the fact that Stoker never left Ireland to gather his information.
The real Bran Castle, situated not far from Brasov on the border of Transylvania and Wallachia, was not, despite Stoker's fabrications, the castle of Vlad Țepeș. Built by Teutonic knights sometime in the ...
Brasov: Transylvania not spooky...nice but! =P
... cool Transylvanian place where I tried some transilvanian soup...mmmm blood...haha just kidding, was sausages and pork in a lovely creamy sauce! Was quite good, expensive but. Western walls was next were an old friendly man who spoke no english got us to see his hunting museum for free! For being such a nice guy, I decided to buy a medallion from his store for 2 lei (like 30c) but he didn't have change so I bought two haha, absolutely made ...


