Romania - Backpack Globetrotter

Romania is my home, a country with a huge touristic potential – but completely unexploited, in too many cases. Still, you will find enough places that still offer unspoiled and surreal scenery.

Lazy summer days in Sibiu county

Laziness. That’s the best word to describe my state of mind and body, during the long weekend I spent in Sibiu county, right in the middle of the hottest month of the year: August. The trip came after months of

Postcards from Romania

I have been thinking lately to all the traveling and sightseeing opportunities that Romania has to offer, and got to one alarming conclusion: I had almost forgotten the beautiful side of my country. And since it’s not a thing to brag about, I

There’s something electric and untold about Cluj-Napoca

Ten years. That was the amount of time that had passed, since my last visit to Cluj, till some weeks ago. Third visit, but first two had lasted less than a few hours. This time, I was going to spend

Weekend in Transylvania: Brașov county

Transylvania, the land of Count Dracula and vampires. Wait, that’s just an overused cliché, which I am not a big fan of. Many Western Europeans associate this region of Romania to vampires, due to Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel, Dracula,