The first time in this city, Mandy was sick. The second time she got her first case of bed bugs. We could only hope that the third time in Romania's capital would be a charm. And it was! But, perhaps that was just uh...Christmas? When we went to Bucharest in December 2022, we had spent Christmases in the States, Sri…
Watching the Purr-fect President on the Black Sea It's a rare moment when you get to be in the presence of a loyal, cuddly and honest president, but we hit the lottery with Domnule Presedinte in Constanta. DP, or Mr. President, was the housesitting gift we received from Annie, an American who had been running a non-profit to help Roma…
Transylvania... an evocative and mysterious land that seems to dominate the plots of so many vampire and werewolf tales. A place that seems ingrained in our imaginations to be a storybook land of fog enshrouded valleys and forgotten-by-time quaint medieval villages punctuated by dark and foreboding castles perched on rocky outcrops. But its storied cobblestoned streets, spellbinding castles, and unbelievably…
Fringed by the peaks of the southern Carpathian Mountains, Braşov is one of those European cities that is simply saturated in charm with its gothic spires, baroque buildings, medieval gates and daunting towers. It is also a city which is rapidly being discovered and will undoubtedly escalate with the opening of an airport currently under construction. There are abundant opportunities…
Sometimes in life you just gotta take a walk to savor slow travel at its utmost. The Romanian countryside around the small city of Miercurea Ciuc in autumn is ripe, and beckoned us to set out on an admittedly very vague plan to walk a “Mineral Water Trail” dotted with natural springs and thermal baths spread out over 50+ km…
When we arrived to Romania, we were treading into an unknown. For the first time since leaving the U.S. in July, we didn’t have any plan for where we were going in the coming weeks. On the ground in Bucharest and Braşov we began asking a few locals, “what’s your favorite place to visit in Romania?” Almost without hesitation, and…
