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November 15, 2014
We’ve been preparing for it since we got the invitation to come. We were both excited and honored to be the ones representing Romania for the very first time at PURE Life Experiences, a one of a kind fair focused on experiential travel. November came and we were ready. To clarify experiential travel I will paraphrase one of the PURE […]
September 12, 2014
After checking out a beautiful hotel in Ramnicu Valcea, I started driving towards Horezu, city famous for its ceramics and potters that use a very specific style when decorating their plates. I then decided to return to Timisoara driving on Transalpina. After the famous-by-now Transfagarasan, “the best road in the world” as Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear called it, Transalpina […]
June 3, 2014
We tour the country every month in search of amazing places for you. We test hotels, restaurants, roads, sights, everything you can imagine. We also look for amazing people doing all sorts of incredible things that you might enjoy. Not long ago we spent the night in Harman, at the Country Hotel ; our host, Cantemir was sorry that his […]
May 29, 2014
Ah, stereotypes! Those handy mental shortcuts which assist us in our daily lives occasionally lead us astray, too. As a neighbor, I’m heading to Romania with a bunch of preformed ideas and convictions. Here are some of the most salient ones and how they measure up to the facts. Corn is everywhere Mamaliga: The amazing maize goodness I most associate […]
May 11, 2014
After an eventful run through Transylvania, it is time I head southeast and towards the big whopper of my journey. I am talking, of course, about Bucharest, the “Paris of the East”. City of joy The Triumphal Arc on Kiseleff Road. In its modern form, it beautifies Bucharest since the 1930s. (Source) The origin of the name “Bucharest” (“București” in […]
April 29, 2014
My journey through Transylvania has been vampire-free so far, but it’s high time to fill this major gap. My third destination happens to be the birth place of Vlad the Impaler. It’s hard to believe the fair city of Sighisoara was once the home of the ruler whose ruthlessness inspired Bram Stoker to create the archetypal Nosferatu: Count Dracula. The […]
