Okay, yes, it's sad, but one reason I wanted to go to Romania was because of Dracula. But hey, I'm allowed one or two silly tourist flings, right? I really was delighted with Romania...it's a beautiful country.
Our first stop in Romania was Bucharest. Not too exciting...just a large city...but we enjoyed the brief amount of time we had there. I even got a bit of Christmas tree shopping done here. I thought this one was very promising.
This one was...less promising.
This one was, I thought, very worthy of Charlie Brown.
Well, enough about Bucharest. This is Sighisoara, the city where Vlad Dracul was born. (The legend of Dracula is based on Vlad Dracul.) Although its main claim to fame is Dracula, it really is a beautiful and charming town. This being one of the only times on this trip we "GUS"ed it, we thoroughly enjoyed looking down at all of the gothic architecture. Really, there's not a lot to do there, but I could have spent more days just walking around. Even our hostel was friendly and laid back.
Well of course I saw the Dracula sights!! All that remains of his birthplace is a restaurant and this plaque. But I suppose that's enough. A haunted house would have been too tacky.
It's porridge! And it's happy to see me! This was our traditional Romanian meal with goulash, an egg, and the stuff in the middle which tasted kind of like grits. And someday I'm sure the name of the dish will come back to me. It was really good though!
This was the first decorated Christmas tree we got to see in Europe (though not even close to the last), and as you can see, I was extremely excited! Christmas!!!!
Our first stop in Romania was Bucharest. Not too exciting...just a large city...but we enjoyed the brief amount of time we had there. I even got a bit of Christmas tree shopping done here. I thought this one was very promising.
This one was...less promising.
This one was, I thought, very worthy of Charlie Brown.
Well, enough about Bucharest. This is Sighisoara, the city where Vlad Dracul was born. (The legend of Dracula is based on Vlad Dracul.) Although its main claim to fame is Dracula, it really is a beautiful and charming town. This being one of the only times on this trip we "GUS"ed it, we thoroughly enjoyed looking down at all of the gothic architecture. Really, there's not a lot to do there, but I could have spent more days just walking around. Even our hostel was friendly and laid back.
It's porridge! And it's happy to see me! This was our traditional Romanian meal with goulash, an egg, and the stuff in the middle which tasted kind of like grits. And someday I'm sure the name of the dish will come back to me. It was really good though!
This was the first decorated Christmas tree we got to see in Europe (though not even close to the last), and as you can see, I was extremely excited! Christmas!!!!
4 comments:
what does "gus"ed it mean...i didn't follow, but i'm still reading, maybe i'm jumping ahead of myself.
GUS means Go Up Syndrome. As in paying silly amounts of money just to go up and get a panoramic view that probably looks like every other panoramic city view. It seems to be a common enough problem that we thought it needed an official term.
good idea.
Oh, dear. How could you talk about vampires? You know how much they scare me.
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