Romania

8月 2022

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Powell Ettinger Romania
日14
Brasov, twinned with Ballsout
2022年8月26日, ルーマニア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Long drive to Brasov but roads, mostly motorway, very good so made good time. Route took us close to Turda and Cunta to Brasov.

Dropped car - Paky (Real name Andrei) was extremely helpful - even gave me a lift to the hotel. Best car hire ever!

A quick walk to the Communist Museum - What an excellent place. Consisting of many memories and mementos from the time Romania was under communist rule. Enlightening and depressing.

Air Bnb very central, a little noisy and a bit hot with no air con. Can't have everything.

Met Andrea for an excellent dinner at her favourite bistro. I ordered something in Romanian that, after some giggling between Andrea and the waitress turned out to be Pigs 'ladies Bits'. Very tasty and juicy pork steaks were sevred and eaten - Endless innapropriate gags about the food items. Moved outside for a Kaiserschmarm pudding, after which Andrea insisted on a late night walking tour of Brasov, including up the hill to the White Tower,. A lovely idea but very difficult with a huge Kaiserschmarm bloat. Slept on my back that night.

Slept surprisingly well, and taxi to the station for the train - for some reason we go there an hour early.

Amazingly Andrea appeared on her bike carrying a full breakfast and other goodies - What a star she is. Kept us going all day until flight back.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/25 12:00
- ☀️ 24 °C
- 海抜: 543 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Cluj Comuna Gilău Someșu Cald 46.729266, 23.270646°43’45” N 23°16’14” E
日13
Hot, steep and thirsty
2022年8月25日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Walk listed on All Trails next to nearby reservoir. After a short detour to a supermarket pharmacy parked near the top of a dam and headed into the woods along a wide track. Hot and uphill (didn't start walking until 12.30) but not unpleasant.

Quick lunch on top with surprisingly quite a few other people walking by and around. A steep downhill with 2-3 excellent viewpoints over the lake.

problem started arising that CW had minimal water, and only I had food. The walk back along was much longer than expected, and 1-2 scarbbly bits, and with quite bad dehydration and not much food to work on, most of the party thought it was a very difficult walk and much too long. My diagnosis is that lack of water and food, and starting at 12.30, were the main problems - I thought the walk along the lake was great!

Anyway emergency drinks and Ice cream taken before return to Cabina Berg for BBQ and wine.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/24 14:53
- ⛅ 24 °C
- 海抜: 742 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Cluj Comuna Gilău Gura Rastii 46.6774, 23.2993446°40’39” N 23°17’58” E
日12
Hot sweaty walk
2022年8月24日, ルーマニア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Long long breakfast on balcony and spotted a 'cabana' marked on google map about 1 hour way. On assumption this would be likely the apple strudel hut we followed Google directions to discover it was down on the main road. Still a decent walk through the village, stop for a magnum n drink before a very hot n sweaty climb back to Cabana Berg.

Kosmina appeared bearing pancakes, jam, pears, honey and other goodies. Pancakes and jam demolished we retired to hot tub.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/23 22:31
- 🌧 17 °C
- 海抜: 742 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Cluj Comuna Gilău Gura Rastii 46.677427, 23.29939446°40’39” N 23°17’58” E
日11
Cabana Berg
2022年8月23日, ルーマニア ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Our base for three days. Amazing views. Need by Kosmina who lived in Worksop for 8 years. Hot tub and fantastic 'summer kitchen,.

Very friendly dog that appears in the evenings and a wary ginger tom hangs around.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/23 8:32
- ☁️ 17 °C
- 海抜: 385 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Mureş Municipiul Sighişoara Sighișoara 46.219051, 24.79190146°13’9” N 24°47’31” E
日11
Sighisoara - most overrated
2022年8月23日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
UNESCO world heritage town famous for its walled citadel and ancient towers. The citadel is dominated by tourist tat shops all selling the same dreadful tat and tourist restaurants selling chicken and chips.

There is a very old covered staircase which is just as it sounds and none of the towers are open to the public as far as I could tell.

Vlad the impaler was born here so plenty of Dracula tat available.

Managed to find a half decent restaurant run by a couple of hipsters, one of which spoke like a geezer but had never been to UK. Meal slightly spoilt by chain smoking neighbour and 2 kids chasing a very small noisy kitten.

Accommodation was very unusual. Tiny courtyard with a nice seatting area bedecked with bric a brac. Rooms were tiny, dark and also with bric a brac but surprisingly functional with mod cons.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/22 10:09
- ☁️ 19 °C
- 海抜: 440 m
- ルーマニア Sibiu 45.797684, 24.1495445°47’52” N 24°8’58” E
日10
Sibiu
2022年8月22日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Biggest surprise so far. City of half a million people on a main road route but the centre is fantastic. And large. Where the centre of bucharest was tacky and touristy Sibiu is classy and beautiful.

All the manhole covers in town, at least the ones we saw, matched. All look like they are 100 years old but are dated 2007.

And the houses have eyes.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/21 12:00
- ☁️ 16 °C
- 海抜: 1,893 m
- ルーマニア Lacul Bâlea 45.608275, 24.61728845°36’30” N 24°37’2” E
日9
Transfaragas
2022年8月21日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
The Top Gear road. Trouble is this has made it very popular. Very cloudy day but broke through the clouds at the top.

Very spectacular road but lots of traffic and shite parking around the top so 1 bu causes a mile long traffic jam. Lots of tat shops too. Maybe should have gone to Transalpino instead.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/20 7:53
- ☀️ 18 °C
- 海抜: 1,104 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Braşov Fundata La Chisatoare 45.450722, 25.31532945°27’3” N 25°18’55” E
日8
Walk to old woman's house
2022年8月20日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Buffet style breakfast, including a liver snack (not popular) and the usual cold meats and cheeseswith an egg choice. All good but lacks variety. 09.03 start walking, down the road a little and then up up nd away, across a patch where a lot of soft fruit had fallen so was swarming with bees, wasps and butterflies, and then up to a meadow with a lovely looking new Pensione with sauna, hot tub. Sat on patio with many many wasps and had a drink - Caroline on the beer at 10.15 AM. Up int the wods and aound a hillside or two before emerging near the hamlet/Resort of Fundata. Another area looking very Austrian apart from a few traditional houses, lots of very lush meadows, a few cows and a general feeling of wealth and well being.

Arrived at Ms. Stoian's 100+ year old house. Ms. Stoian was at a funeral but had left us a plate full of 4 types of cheese, red peppers, some 'Speck' (basically pig fat, fresh juicy pork stracthings) and the inevitable plum brandy with fresh donuts to finish off. beautiful old house and out building available to sleep in - very very traditional, and a small display of traditional clothing.

We counted at least 6 dogs as well as chickens, 1-2 cows, some sheep and 2-3 veggie gardens. All seems very idyllic, but Ms. Stoian is 71 and must be a hard life, even though a tarmac road has just been built to her drive. She gets some help from her son but does a lot on her own - Would be an amazing place to stay though.

Carried on down the hill to Moieciu De Sus and stopped for a highly refreshing lemon and mint juice - with honey - in fact I had 2..

On return to Danielas we spotted the suitcase of Shansuo and Ke. Andrea had been hinting heavily that we should look into Danielas weaving shop/museum with was interesting but not tempting.

Joined Chinese fiends for dinner. Asked if they were married and Ke said, with perfect comic timing and a huge grin 'no. Because she said No!'.

Andrea was heading off after dinner and said to call her if we needed anything- so 30 seconds after she had left us we texted her to order 3 beers. PM had already asked Daniela and Andrea texted back to say 'you have hem already.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/19 11:37
- ☀️ 20 °C
- 海抜: 1,344 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Braşov Oraş Zãrneşti Predelut Magura Mica 45.524144, 25.31858645°31’27” N 25°19’7” E
日7
Ridge walk to Bran
2022年8月19日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Said goodbye to Mihai and Rodica after another top breakfast including cheese on toast - some of which were added to the surprisingly light lunches of 1 white bread cheese sandwich and an apple, which if you don't like white bread, cheese or apples isn't great for a full days walk, and if you are Caroline and don't like all three then........

a short flat start passed the chocolate bar before an hours uphill to reveal magnificent views, across to the Bucegi mountains, back to Piatra Craiuli mountains and down to Zaenesti.

a quick stop atop a rocky outcrop with fantastic views before undulating across the ridge through woods and across meadows accompanied by the whining calls of several buzzards and seeing hundreds of butterflies.

After packed lunch in a meadow including a super sweet n juicy nectarine we descended through beautiful cool woods towards Bran.

Paul slipped at one stage so Andrea moved him to position 2 for a while before reinstating Kim to the no2 spot.

As we descended to Bran we met three large Romanians walking up the hill carrying shovels and a guitar case. This very dodgy looking expedition turned out to be a metal detecting trip looking for artifacts from some Austrian battle.

Shortly before reaching Bran we got our first site of Bran (Dracula's) Castle so Kim and Paul enacted a quick Love bite.

Bran was as overcrowded as expected so we found a quiet cafe for a minty lemonade and Caroline found a beautiful kitten (Sophie) who was very happy to be cuddled and stroked - One of the highlights of the trip for C.

Our usual 2 drivers appeared and transferred us to Pensione Daniela in Moieciu de Sus. A reasonably standard Pensione (Austrian style) run by the lovely friendly Daniela and her rotund husband. Daniela spoke some French so comms were mostly in French.

Paul and I had been fantasizing about big peices of meat and the site of a BBQ being lit got the taste buds going, before Andrea announced that we would be having cabbage rolls for dinner.

To be fair, the cabbage rolls were very good (Award winning apparently) and stuffed with (pork?) mince.もっと詳しく
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- 2022/08/19 8:53
- ☀️ 19 °C
- 海抜: 1,016 m
- ルーマニア Judeţul Braşov Comuna Moieciu Măgura 45.525197, 25.29543145°31’31” N 25°17’44” E
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Mihai and Rodica
2022年8月19日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Mihai and Rodica run the Hille Guesthouse in Magura - and it is te perfect illustration as to why the star system for accommodatio n is rubbish. There are no facilities (there is wifi), no TV is rooms, not tea and coffee machine, but you will struggle to find a better place to stay.

Magnificent views is a fine start, and you notice these moments before, on arrival, you are greeted with a shot of home made plum brandy ( to be fair this is fairly universal in this part of the world) and maybe some cheese nibbles.

But they are just a charming couple. Nothing is too much trouble. Aand the home cooking is magnificent. The fish and chips was fresh trout with a coating of garlic, pepper and polleta (i think) , and the chips were very herby.

Dinner every night cnsisted of a soup course, lots of veggies with maybe pasta or veal. They were very aware of Caroline's Parsley allergy, but unfortunately added Loveage instead, which turns out to be from the parsley family, but stronger. Main course was stuffed pepper, or fish, or meat balls, or some other fresh local delicacy, and a home made pudding too - Mini doughnut, like Beignet, were my favourites, and washed down by (excellent) hoke made wine.

We were joined on the 2nd night by a young (ish) chinese couple, Ke and Xu Xwei, who were also on a walking week holiday booked through Romania Active. They are both PHD students currently studying plant science in Germnay. Very unusual to meet independent Chinese travellers, and they were great fun. Good English, informative and a good sense of humor.
Chocolate bar. Food sherry wine food.もっと詳しく
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