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ROMANIA – While Cluj-Napoca is the most varied city I visited on this trip to Romania, and therefore my favorite, the most beautiful were undoubtedly Sibiu and Oradea. Sibiu is special for being a well preserved medieval town, but Oradea (the capital of Bihor county, pop.: 196,367), is special for another reason that I think…
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ROMANIA – Towards the end of the five hour bus ride from Sibiu, the bus turned a corner revealing a magnificent view of my next destination: Cluj-Napoca, which has 324,576 inhabitants, making it Romania’s second largest city. So, thinking of how to start this thread, the first thing I did when I had borrowed a bike…
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ROMANIA – A scenic six hour train journey from Timișoara – including a change in Arad, which I considered visiting as well – took me the 330 kilometers to my next destination, Sibiu, which I liked immediately on arrival, at about eight in the evening (I’m not showing these photos in the order I took…
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ROMANIA – Situated on the plain near the borders with Hungary and Serbia, Timișoara – where I arrived at the airport and spent two nights – is a university town of 320,000. It is called Temesvar in Hungarian, Timisvar in Serbian, and a variation on the theme in various other languages. Pictures made on 2017-07-16….
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ROMANIA – Almost 2,500 kilometers from home, the Romanian port city of Constanța was the furthest point of a trip through Eastern Europe I went on with a friend in the summer of 2009. This city of about 400,000 on the Black Sea also…
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ROMANIA – Also known as the Paris of the east, Bucharest could also be called the Pyong Yang of the west, the Rome of the new world, or the Buones Aires of the old world (not that I have ever been to Pyong Yang or Buones Aires). Or it could also just be called Bucharest. It has both the allure of the capital of a (surprisingly new) ancient empire …
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