Sighisoara is a stunning, and surprisingly tiny, medieval citadel in Transylvania, central Romania. Its story-book looks alone will blow you away with picture postcards buildings, both grand and humble. Add history and cultural appeal to the visual and you've got a must-visit global destination. Unsurprisingly, Sighisoara is a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the … [Read more...]
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Surviving Winter in Romania
Winter has done its worst and the mercury is starting to hit positive numbers during the short days here in the remote mountains of Romania. This area is beautiful, harsh, inspiring and difficult and it's where we choose to be. Why, when we could live anywhere in the world, do we choose to spend winter in Romania where temperatures dip to -25C, snow and ice lie thick for … [Read more...]
Romania Travel Blog
Romania was the country that captured our hearts. It came as a total magical surprise, inspiring us to spend 3 years trying to buy a house in Romania and basing ourselves, on and off, in a beautiful, remote peasant village of Breb, Maramures County, 100 years in the past. It's been an incredible experience spending many Christmases, Easters, winters and summers in Romania and … [Read more...]
London to Romania by Car. Europe Road Trip
Every year we drive from London to Romania and back. It's a long drive, around 1,500 Km if you take the shortest route. Sometimes we just get in the car and do it the quickest way possible, other years we turn it into more of a road trip, adding kilometers, days and cost, to make this road trip a more fun experience. You could make the drive in a 3 or 4 day marathon but we … [Read more...]
Romanian Village Life
Our lifestyle isn't conventional. We travel and have done for over 2 years now, we do unusual things like falling in love with Romanian village life and buying houses in rural Romania, some people think we're crazy, but that's cool. Sometimes I think we're crazy too. Yesterday I reshared an old post, a reader had asked "What do you do all day?" We were on Ko Phangan … [Read more...]
Decisions in Romania
I haven't published a post in a couple of weeks now. Mostly because we've been busy, tearing around Romania in our vomit inducing Dacia. The car sickness has plagued Boo and I, D as always, just reads for hours in the back seat as we explore this fascinating and stunningly beautiful country. The posts on Romania will come soon. When we're not in the car we've been visiting … [Read more...]
A Village in Rural Romania
What do you imagine Romania is like? I'll stake cash that you wouldn't imagine the rural paradise we've found ourselves in. Fate has brought us to a village in rural Romania, Breb, in Maramures. It's quite possibly the most beautiful, unspoiled place I've ever been. Maramures is the county to the north of Transylvania tight on Romania's border with Ukraine and it's very close … [Read more...]
Bucharest Romania Travel Blog & Guide
Romania isn't a common travel destination and it's one that we ended up visiting by happy chance before living there for 3 years. This Central European country gets a strong grip on your heart. Travel to Bucharest wasn't top of our hit list and we had no real idea what to expect of the city or the country. Happily, Bucharest turned out to be a fabulous travel destination. … [Read more...]
Everest Base Camp Trek Difficulty and Hardships – How Hard Can it Be?
We got back from Everest yesterday. It's been an amazing 3 weeks, ( yes, 21 days, not 14) and it's been tough, so, a few things you need to know about difficulty levels on the Everest Base Camp trek ( EBC) both for your entertainment and general information, and to help you decide if this Himalayan hike is for you. There are hardships, problems and pitfalls. Hopefully we can … [Read more...]
Living in Hoi An
Everything on living in Hoi An after almost 6 months here.This post started out in 2017 as a bit of a whinge about how dull it was sitting still for a couple of months but in our second month, after starting this post in the wee small hours, we went out for breakfast and a bike ride and I found myself falling under a car. Being alive and content in an ultra-charming … [Read more...]