Category: Travel
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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.…
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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…
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Hanging out in Bucharest
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Fun with Airplanes Our next stop, for awhile, is Romania. Despite arriving at the airport 2 hours early, we nearly missed our flight from Copenhagen to Bucharest due to an crazy long line of passengers going through security and immigration. It’s been years since I sprinted to a gate. Note: budget airlines use gates that…