Travel around Romania

Every since our presence at PURE in November 2014, we’ve been kindly harassing the agents we met to come and visit Romania. What better way to get to know a country and speak about it to clients than to experience it in person? With that in mind, we were happy to get Elisa’s and Ana’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

My Romanian holiday fantasy continues eastward and takes me to Brasov (Braṣov in Romanian), one of Transylvania’s finest cities. It was originally an old Saxon settlement, the birth place of the Romanian national anthem, and home to the Golden Stag Festival which features world-class musical entertainment year after year. I can’t wait to explore! Crowned […]