A very brief stop

Trip Start Nov 15, 2005
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Trip End Aug 15, 2008


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Friday, December 2, 2005

Slightly hungover (it was Romania day the night before, it would have been rude not to go out and celebrate!), and therefore setting off a little later than planned, I intended to visit Sighisoara for a few hours and head on to Cluj-Napoca. This didn't quite occur as intended.

Myles and I arrived at Sighisoara mid-afternoon, and after a few minor complications with train times and items left at the previous hostel, we set out to have a quick look around the city with only a couple of hours left before dark. Sighisoara is the birthplace of Romania's favourite son, Vlad Tepes, so our first stop in town had to be the house where Vlad spent his formative years. This is actually now a slightly cheesy, mock gothic style restaurant, and really a bit unremarkable. Not to mention expensive.
All we saw of Sighisoara was the citadel area, though I'm not sure if there is much else worht visiting here. I can understand why people speak quite highly of the place, but I wouldn't want to spend more than an afternoon here. Interesting as it is to walk around, the beggars here were omnipresent, and most of the children seemed quite clean and healthy, not what you would expect from someone so needy they had been driven to begging. Some were even quite aggressive about it. It soured my experience of the town somewhat.

After a couple of hours, it was time to catch a train.
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