New Trend In Romania: Charming Traditional Guesthouses

What comes to mind when you think about Romania? Or let’s put it like that: why would you visit Romania? My answer is easy, it’s the raw beauty of its mountains and forests, the simple charm of its villages, and the honest hospitality of the people. Luckily, more and more young entrepreneurs understand this and […]

Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett One of the most visually distinctive features of Transylvania’s Siebenbürgen (Seven Fortresses) are the guild towers that line their citadel walls. Sighișoara originally had 14, nine of which remain today while Sibiu, the centre of Saxon Transylvania and the region’s most important citadel, had a whopping 40 towers, each built, manned […]

By Warren Singh-Bartlett Remember the legend of the Pied Piper? In 1284, the people of Hamelin, a town in the German province of Lower Saxony, hired a rat-catcher to help them with an infestation. Enchanting the rats with his music, the piper was able to lure them into a nearby river, drowning them. Possibly deciding […]