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 …
Israel to Bucharest, RomaniaOff to the Airport If you read yesterdays blog you will know that we booked a taxi to the airport where the driver told us that “God willing” he would be outside our apartment at 5:55am for our 6:00am pick-up time. God or the driver was a little late as he arrived at 6:05am and we quickly made it to the airport on the empty roads.We have …