Empty Nesters Take Flight

Global Nomadic Travel after kids leave the nest

Category: Eastern Europe

  • The Walled City of Sighisoara

    The Walled City of Sighisoara

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    Sighisoara is a beautiful walled medieval city complete with a clock tower and many remaining defensive towers and sections of the wall. Retrace steps of students from centuries past by climbing the Scholar’s Stairs to the Cathedral on the hill.

  • Four Days in Beautiful Sibiu, Romania

    Four Days in Beautiful Sibiu, Romania

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    Sibiu is another city in Romania built by Germans, similar to Brasov, and well worth the visit. Walking down the main pedestrian zone felt like walking through cities in Germany, but tailored for tourists, and a bit shabbier.  Sibiu’s main plaza connects to a pedestrian-only street (Nicolae Baiescu) that is about half a mile long.…

  • Transylvania, Dracula and Castles

    Transylvania, Dracula and Castles

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    We’ve now headed roughly north from Bucharest into the middle of Romania, having spent time the towns of Ploiesti, Sinaia and Brasov, our first city in Transylvania.  These are places you have probably never heard of.  Nothing really noteworthy in Ploiesti, except for an over-large ugly communist era administrative building plopped in the middle of…