Day 59 ROMANIA Oradea

For breakfast today, we cooked the polenta from the watermill. It had a bit more texture, fresh corn taste and quick to cook.

Oradea is divided into a north side and south side by the river Crisul Repede.
We had planned to only do south of the river sights today and north tomorrow. However we finished the south side by 12.30pm, so were also able to do explore the north side.

Oradea is a literally a sweet city as it has buildings that made us think of buttercream icing on a cake, like lavishly decorated cupcakes. These Art Nouveau and Succession buildings looked like they belonged in a fairy tale.

A couple who had returned to Oradea from Amsterdam stopped and spoke to Ruby. Ruby mentioned that we noticed a lot of restoration and infrastructure work being done and asked them where the funds for such works came from. They explained that the European Union were supporting vast rebuilding of Romania, project by project. They said that they had been away for 15 years and despite returning a few times a year, they notice changes with each visit.

Having walked both South and North of the river, we covered just over 15km today. It did justify our detour to get cake on the way back to our accommodation from a place that must be cake paradise.Read more