If ogling the excesses of the communist era is your thing, the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, colloquially referred to as the Castle of Ceausescu, ticks every box. It is the world’s second largest…
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Salt has been mined from a huge underground deposit on the edge of the town of Turda ‘since antiquity’. It was extracted continuously from Roman times until 1932, on an increasingly industrial scale. The…
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This was a diverse six day hike through forest and farmlands in central Transylvania. For three days we walked between traditional ethnic Romanian villages, following which we spent three days meandering through Saxon Land, the…
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Confession time. We are both fans of the (now defunct) UK motoring show Top Gear – the James May/Jeremy Clarkson/Richard Hammond version, that is. So when we found ourselves in the vicinity of what the…
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From Shumen in northern Bulgaria we took a bus to Bucharest and a train north to start our travels in Romania. Sinaia Romania’s first king, Carol I, built a summer palace here in…
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