15, 16 November – Transylvanian weekend

It’s been a long time goal of mine – to go and see a bit of neighbourside Romania. Especially Transylvania – combined lots of history, sci-fi and mountains. So, a couple words with a friend and here we go….

Saturday morning. 7:30 AM – the GPS tells us where to go. It’s settled for Brasov, as first goal. We crossed the Danube bridge without any complications and through Giurgiu move north to Bucharest and on. Compared to Bulgaria, these people have great roads – always improving and not a single hole, even at the mountains. That impressed me. The car stood perfect on the asphalt at all speeds.

Anyways, we reached passed Sinaia, Brasov and headed to the Bran castle – or as they call it “Dracula castle”. To tell you honestly – there was nothing Draculese about it. Simple castle with lots of historic objects in it. But the bazar in front of it – all Draculese. Bran citizens exploit the Dracula myth and try to squeeze what they can from it. And they do it good – we had fun at the bazar, at the haunted Dracula dungeon (or whatever it was called). In the evening we went to a big pub on a hill next to Bran, called Vila Bran… nice place.

Sunday morning we said goodbye to our hostess and left for Sibiu. Across the mountains again we watched the frozen land (it was -7 degrees Celsius) with the melting frost on it. Like a fairy tale. Beautiful.

About 10-11 AM we reached the city that was announced as European capital of culture for 2007. Amazing one, if I may describe it that way – stunning views, old buildings, towers, churches, etc. Loved it. We walked around for a couple of hours… and started our journey back.

LOL… that’s it – really short… really…

Some pictures – as always can be found at my Picasa Web Galery