Romania Travel Blogs

Geeez, seems we praied to much for the snow to come, and here it comed!!! LOLSnow has 1,5 m in some parts of the country, and in Bucharest all the streets are blocked.Was kinda hard to find even bread, since cars are not able to come .So we just start to go out and play with snow...pretty cool, for…

There are so many things to write about the town; firstly, it is also called "Little Paris"- because of the similitude to its famous counterpart and because of the river which splits the town in half. But the name comeS from the Latin "Varadinum" and it's an 11th Century bohemian University to…

I got to Bucharest late last night after flying in from Copenhagen via Frankfurt - unfortunately the direct flight connections did not start until the end of March. I had kind of thought about giving Bucharest a miss - I have not heard anything good about the city but lots of bad stuff like load…

Was meant to check out at 10am, but with it being cold and grey hung about as long as I could. Even got round to reading the card from the Ministry Of The Interior and their valuable insights on how to look after your cash and luggage and that drugs and prostitution were naughty things to be i…

Bianca's home and it's her birthday (22) !!!I think we invented the Saturday night's fever - the house is full of girls (my sisters and Bianca's friends). I cannot find one mirror (!) in the whole house so I have to crouch in the hallway to apply a bit of make-up. The place is alive, my father has …

“I come from Transylvania!” that`s the chilling line you`ll hear in all the vampire movies. Vlad the Impaler of Transylvania was known by everyone as Dracula. He was born in  Sighisoara and  the house still exists today and it's a restaurant. But no other place is so easily identif…

A group af Wallachian noblemen bringing with them a princely sceptre made most people living in Nurnberg, the city of imperial diets, defy the cold weather and take part, on February 8, 1431 in an important historic event: emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg conceded the ruler-ship in Wallachia to Vlad …

Our first station was at Sinaia.We just wanted to see the Pelles Castle which seems to be the main atraction,but as it proved it worth the time we spend around place even with carrying our suit cases all along.We walked....and we walked a lot!  I would say that Sinaia is a very clea…

So- I am in Romania- again! It's the end of September and the younger kids have already started school. A few of the older ones are also starting at the University and the foundation is picking the tab. How generous!One such person is young Anna, my new cousin; she is excited and scared at the same…

I had a very white night without too much sleep that genereated this 2 monsters... Well this is not a very meticulos draw...just a sketch , runned by insomnia and a few black thoughts, so if anyone find it to  much black in a flower-power era...relax, we all love the '60 ..and we all love The…

Welcome to Romania..a place where u can ski on the best moutaines...and fish in Danube river.

Count Dracula's name was Vlad Tepes.  Vlad was born in Sighisoara in 1431.  In the 15th century Romania was made up of a number of small states, each with an independent ruler. Vlad Tepes was a ruler for a state called Wallachia not Transylvania.  Wallachia is located just south of T…

that place was not scheduled! but hopefully we saw it! we got very tired cause we were carrying our suit cases with us (the place is on the mountain (hehehe) but it worth it! the best place i saw in romania!!! i dont know if i should call it a little town, a village or just a place that someone pa…

The Parliament Palace (former People`s House) is the last immense edifice of work of the Romanian people under the Communist dictatorship Ceausescu. Initially the building was intended to house all major state institutions, but Ceausescu decided the palace to be his personal residence (more than …

We drove from Brasov to Bucharest to catch our flight today and it was pretty much like every drive has been in Romania : slow and frustrating! I  love driving, but I absolutely hate driving here. Tip: take a train instead. This time we had a special treat of being forced onto the shoulder of …