• Maree CrawfordRomania and IstanbulTraveler
    The Sleeping Giant mountains up the backNarrowest street in Romania, even narrower than the famous one in Bran. Used by schoolkidsOur lunch stopOn this gate is a mother and child which means this is where families gather during an emergency.Mince meat sausage and buttered potato with elderberry syrup for a drink.Tudor!!In the museum. Many objects about daily lifeMonasteryThe nuns painted these frescoes themselves! The roof is so high!They used gold plateComing back into Cluj

    Rimetea for lunch

    October 6, 2023 in Romania ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Late lunch at a small UNESCO village, Rimetea. All the houses have to be true to tradition, white with green windows. There is only one communist building in this village. The whole village was due for demolition by the communists but they just avoided that as communication fell.

    The people here identify as Seklers.
    The Székelys, also referred to as Szeklers, are a Hungarian subgroup living mostly in the Székely Land in Romania. To visit Székelyföld today is to encounter one of the most spectacular corners of Transylvania. Deep in the center of today’s Romania, it boasts beautiful mountains and pine forests, lakes and hills, and a delightfully distinct culture of Hungarian speakers. Beware not only of the notorious bears in the nearby forests, the Szeklers remain fiercely proud of their history and culture!

    Tudor, my guide, takes me to a traditional food restaurant for lunch at 3pm! I have a sausage and potato thing with elderberry cordial. Was lovely as I was hungry!
    We pop into the small local museum - ethnographic meaning showing the ethnic way of living. Iron mining was the industry but now tourism is starting.

    Then to a monastery that houses nuns. The amazing frescoes were painted by the nuns themselves. Stunning.

    Home 5.30. Started falling asleep around 7-ish, didn't need tea so slept    Read more