The Beyond Journal

Romania is at its best in Autumn, when the natural world changes colour, from green  to many shades of russet, red, golden, yellow, black, amber, pink and brown.  Autumn is also my favourite season. The weather is just perfect, it’s time for layers of clothing, great food and wine, romantic walks through parks or forests, […]

Why do we travel? Because it shows us we’re not alone, it shows us that a person from the other side of the globe, speaking a different language and believing in a different god can be exactly like us, can feel the same joy when looking at something beautiful and can feel the same pain when hurt. Travel opens our minds, connects us in ways we never thought possible.

It was during my first trip abroad that I knew I had the travel bug.

A place of lost souls and fornication, inhabited by thieves, easy women, beggars, and impoverished boyars. This was the very historical center of Bucharest at the turn of the 20th century described in one of the best novels inspired by the Romanian capital nightlife ever written – Mateiu Caragiale’s Princes of the Old Court (Craii […]

It’s September and time for us to look back at what we did this summer, and – boy! – it was the summer of records. It took 38 days, 12 of our best guides, reservations to no less than 14 hotels and scores of places to experience and stories to hear in three countries – […]

Throughout their trips, guests will meet our guides, drivers, local guesthouse owners, craftsmen and others, that personalise their discovery of Romania and its people. I think it’s safe to say after all these years, what guests repeatedly mention as “priceless” from their trips are their encounters with the local people and nature’s beauty whether they […]