Travel day one
4月22日, トルコ ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Flight from Seattle to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Istanbul. Stayed in same airport hotel as previous trip.
Travel day two
4月24日, ルーマニア ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Short flight from Istanbul to Bucharest. Settled into Airbnb, lunch, grocery shopping, then we conked out.
Walking tour
4月25日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Started our day with a great walking tour. Then lunch, and a siesta.
Springtime park and villages museum
4月26日, ルーマニア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
We took a bus across town to the Herastrau Park, and took a long walk up the lake. It was a beautiful spring Saturday, and tons of locals were out walking, running, biking, etc. Reminded us a littleもっと詳しく
Museums
4月27日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Went to the history museum, it was in a very cool old building, the museum itself was a bit underwhelming (we had been warned). Then into the Communist museum to learn more about life during that eraもっと詳しく
Chill day
4月28日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Spent the morning travel planning, then headed to the popular restaurant of Caru cu Bere. Beautiful interior and good food (definitely a splurge for us).
After lunch we walked along the canal andもっと詳しく
More parks
4月29日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Another morning of travel booking. Then we metro'd up to the bus station we'll be departing from in a few days, but weren't able to buy tickets.
Then we meandered through the botanical gardens,もっと詳しく
Museums
4月30日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Went to the national museum of art.
Bus to Sibiu
5月1日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
5 hour bus ride to Sibiu, through the Carpathian mountains. Long but pretty
Lively Sibiu
5月1日〜6日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Enjoying this charming town. We've taken a walking tour, seen churches and museums, eaten on the many squares and plazas.
Travel day
5月6日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Lazy morning, then a walk to the train station. Easy boarding to our train to brasov. We took the 4-hour slooow train (the timing was better) so we stopped in every Hamlet. It was fine except theもっと詳しく
Getting to know Brasov
5月7日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Started the day with a walking tour of the town. Very enjoyable. We then had lunch, then hit up the city history museum.
Bran castle
5月8日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Picked up a rental car mid-morning, then headed up to Bran castle. I had low expectations, and it was way better then that! Fully enjoyed it. Then we headed to Rasnov for lunch. What a sleepy town! Weもっと詳しく
Peles castle
5月9日, ルーマニア ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Drive up into the Carpathian mountains to see the wonderful peles castle.
Chill out day
5月10日, ルーマニア ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Lazy day, finished booking new Zealand travel
Train to Bucharest
5月11日, ルーマニア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Decided to make our travel lives easier. Took a midday train to Bucharest, metro to our IHG (free room night)
Trains to Bulgaria
5月12日, ブルガリア ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We left our Bucharest hotel at 8:30, and backtracked on the metro back to Gare de Nord, as we had to pick up our international train tix a bit earlier than our 10am train.
Train ride was uneventfulもっと詳しく
Enjoying Plovdiv
5月14日〜21日, ブルガリア ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Great town! Day one we did a walking tour. In the following days we also saw the ethnography museum, the bishops basilica with amazing mosaics, we hiked up to the "monument to the Soviet soldier",もっと詳しく
Train day
5月21日, ブルガリア ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
~3 hour train ride to Sofia. Then taxi to our cute Airbnb. As is our routine, unpack and get settled, find a grocery store for provisions, relax for a bit on our back balcony. Then out to find dinner.
Walking tour
5月22日, ブルガリア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Great morning walking tour of the main town. Always a great way to get oriented.
Rila monastery
5月23日, ブルガリア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Day tour to the fantastic Rila monastery, as well as the bayana church.
Town meander
5月24日, ブルガリア ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
Today is the national holiday celebrating the professors and their students that created the Cyrillic alphabet, it's a big claim to fame here in Bulgaria. We walked by some festival streets, andもっと詳しく
Rainy Sunday
5月25日, ブルガリア ⋅ 🌧 10 °C
It's raining heavy and not predicted to get above 48*. So much for escaping Seattle's chilly spring.
We spent the morning chilling, reading, travel planning, then decided to go back to the nationalもっと詳しく
Tromp thru the woods
5月26日, ブルガリア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Rain dissipated this morning, so we went for a long ramble. Started in a park near our apartment, then continued about 5 miles through the woods (toward the zoo). We some people, but fewer and fewerもっと詳しく
Churches and museums
5月27日, ブルガリア ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Last day in Sofia. We wandered to a cool looking blue and gold church, but no pictures allowed.
We then went to the regional History museum which had a nice bit of everything.
Then we grabbedもっと詳しく


















































































