Miranda Loves Travelling - My Travel Diary - Page 265

We always plan to go somewhere outside of western Europe for the Easter holidays, because the shops and services are closed in the west. The Orthodox church has got the different date…

We were not very lucky with the weather during our travel in Romania, but on the Easter Sunday, we had a lovely blue sky. So we walked around the centre of Bucharest…

This Palace of Parliament in Bucharest is said to be the second largest building in the world, after the Pentagon in the USA. It was built in 1984 by then President, Ceausescu, but it is…

We went to National Village Museum in Bucharest in Romania. More than 60 real houses and churches from all over Romania were dismantled and reconstructed in this site which is as large…

Dracula was buried in an island in Snagov lake which is about 40 km north of Romanian capital, Bucharest, but after a while, when someone dug the grave, the body had been…

After visiting monasteries in Valcea County in Romania, it was the time for lunch. We went to a restaurant called Hanul Haiducilor in Ramnic Valcea, which is the biggest town around here….

There are many stray dogs in Romania. They seemed to be fewer than 9 years ago when I visited this country for the first time, but still we saw many during this…

Horezu Monastery in Valcea County in Romania is listed as a World Heritage of UNESCO. The founder, a load called Constantin Brancoveanu built it at the end of 17th century and the…

The second place we visited in Valcea County in Romania was a convent called Bistrita. It does not seem to be well-known as a tourist destination and it is not in my…