Dracula’s Castle and King Carol I’s PalaceHello Dracula It is overcast and crisp this morning as we drive to Bran Castle in the village of Bran.We pass small villages, agricultural areas, horses with buggy and another fortress on the often windy road.The castle was built by the Teutonic nights around 1338 AD. The castle is the fictional home of Dracula but in reality Vlad probably didn’t even stay in the …
Off to TransylvaniaTravelling through Wallachia to TransylvaniaOur guide, Marius from One Excellence Tours picks us up from our hotel at 7:45am. We are the only two people on this tour which is awesome.We are on the highway quite awhile before turning off to drive through foot hills which look a lot like Ontario, except the houses are different.We start rising going up curvy roads. The road follows the Olt …
Bucharest- Day 2Palace of the ParliamentOur bed is shaking. It’s 6:50am and its not because of anything we are doing. Our phones display an earthquake alert registering 5.3 on the Richter scale. We had heard in our walking tours that Romania has had several severe earthquakes. The last bad one was in 1977 registering 7.2 and over 1,500 people were killed.After a filling breakfast at the hotel, we head …
Bucharest- Day 1 Walking Tour of the Old Town The hotel has a great breakfast buffet…so let’s just say I ate a lot.The morning starts cooler (17 C) but I know the temperature will be rising to 25 C, so I dress in layers.We go to our first walking tour called Old Town and Parliament. Although we walked around the Old Town yesterday, I still learn a lot and see a …
