This is a severely overdue post. Since I last posted in October, I've gone on about 10ish trips. Why haven't I kept up on my blog during my last year of living abroad? I've been busy with:
1. Traveling.
2. Working.
3. Preparing to be employed in Virginia while a world away (new Virginia teaching license, online portfolio, applications, interviews, stressing, etc.).
4. Moving across the world.
5. Visiting family all around The States.
6. Preparing for my new teaching position.
I've found a pocket of time to work on my blog. I fancy looking back on my trips, and if I abandon this blog now, I'll be pretty sad one day when I can't remember any of my travels! So enjoy my pictures and two cents here and there. ;)
Romania:
In October, 2016, Greg and I went to Bucharest, Romania for a four day weekend. Upon our arrival, we settled in, checked for bed bugs, and headed out to dinner.
If you ever want a cheap trip, go to Romania. We ate at a fancy restaurant, ordered appetizers, main course, dessert, and the most expensive wine on the menu, and the bill was not more than 60 euro for two people. Seriously. Now, of course there is a catch! Great meal...but I got a splinter in my throat. I ordered meat skewers. The wooden skewers were a little flakey, and would't you know, a piece wiggled off and became lodged in my throat. As a result, I could only eat half of my meal, and ended up leaving all the dessert up to Greg. After dinner we went to a pharmacy where I pantomimed the action of tweezing my eyebrows to the clerk, in search of tweezers. The plan was to have Greg dislodge the splinter with tweezers....however, the pharmacy did not have any. In the end, I just shoved my own fingers in my throat, and "single handedly" removed the splinter. Which was great! We have a full day of castle touring coming up!
Our first full day was a tour around Transylvania to see the Peles Castle, the Bran Castle, and a town called Brasov.
This is the Peles Castle, located in a town called Sinaia. It was quite beautiful inside, but as I remember, you had to pay extra to take photos. Greg did that, but the photos are on his technological devices, not mine. Maybe check his Facebook if you're dying to see the inside.
This is Greg and me with our matching Italian leather jackets.
Here are some photos of the countryside in Transylvania as we drove to the next castle. Those are the Carpathian Mountains in the background.
Our next stop was the Bran Castle, which inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
The inside wasn't very lush and lavish.
View from the inside:
By the way, I didn't and up finding any vampires running around town.
Our last stop was a town called Brasov:
Greg in the "smallest street in Europe"....
Here is a very "Munsters" looking building spotted on our way back to Bucharest. There were many in this country. I loved it.
A few nighttime shots in Bucharest:
On our second full day in Romania, we checked out a museum which featured a slew of exhibits, including one on Romania's involvement in WWI.
Crowns of old Romanian royals:
Greg in the interactive portion of the museum:
Remember the restaurant that nearly killed me with the throat splinter? We ended up eating there for every other meal that trip. They had tasty food, and I just didn't ordered the skewers again.
Traditional bean soup:
Super tasty traditional cabbage and meatball type of soup. I later tried to re-create this at home...not the same. I love soup.
Traditional dish: polenta, cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat and rice, slice of ham:
Inside of the restaurant:
A live band began to play in the middle of the day!
Some buildings in Bucharest:
That's about it! Stay tuned as I hope to continue to share about my travels throughout our last year living abroad in the next few days or weeks!
-Gina
1. Traveling.
2. Working.
3. Preparing to be employed in Virginia while a world away (new Virginia teaching license, online portfolio, applications, interviews, stressing, etc.).
4. Moving across the world.
5. Visiting family all around The States.
6. Preparing for my new teaching position.
I've found a pocket of time to work on my blog. I fancy looking back on my trips, and if I abandon this blog now, I'll be pretty sad one day when I can't remember any of my travels! So enjoy my pictures and two cents here and there. ;)
Romania:
In October, 2016, Greg and I went to Bucharest, Romania for a four day weekend. Upon our arrival, we settled in, checked for bed bugs, and headed out to dinner.
If you ever want a cheap trip, go to Romania. We ate at a fancy restaurant, ordered appetizers, main course, dessert, and the most expensive wine on the menu, and the bill was not more than 60 euro for two people. Seriously. Now, of course there is a catch! Great meal...but I got a splinter in my throat. I ordered meat skewers. The wooden skewers were a little flakey, and would't you know, a piece wiggled off and became lodged in my throat. As a result, I could only eat half of my meal, and ended up leaving all the dessert up to Greg. After dinner we went to a pharmacy where I pantomimed the action of tweezing my eyebrows to the clerk, in search of tweezers. The plan was to have Greg dislodge the splinter with tweezers....however, the pharmacy did not have any. In the end, I just shoved my own fingers in my throat, and "single handedly" removed the splinter. Which was great! We have a full day of castle touring coming up!
Our first full day was a tour around Transylvania to see the Peles Castle, the Bran Castle, and a town called Brasov.
This is the Peles Castle, located in a town called Sinaia. It was quite beautiful inside, but as I remember, you had to pay extra to take photos. Greg did that, but the photos are on his technological devices, not mine. Maybe check his Facebook if you're dying to see the inside.
Our next stop was the Bran Castle, which inspired Bram Stoker's "Dracula".
View from the inside:
Our last stop was a town called Brasov:
Greg in the "smallest street in Europe"....
Here is a very "Munsters" looking building spotted on our way back to Bucharest. There were many in this country. I loved it.
A few nighttime shots in Bucharest:
#munsters
Crowns of old Romanian royals:
Greg in the interactive portion of the museum:
Remember the restaurant that nearly killed me with the throat splinter? We ended up eating there for every other meal that trip. They had tasty food, and I just didn't ordered the skewers again.
Traditional bean soup:
Super tasty traditional cabbage and meatball type of soup. I later tried to re-create this at home...not the same. I love soup.
Traditional dish: polenta, cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat and rice, slice of ham:
Inside of the restaurant:
A live band began to play in the middle of the day!
Wait...France? No, Romania has an Arc D'Triumph, too. Romania had all kinds of other European country influences all about (language, landmarks, cars, etc...)
Some buildings in Bucharest:
For the second part of the day we went to a Village Museum. It featured traditional Romanian houses and buildings:
#munsters
That's about it! Stay tuned as I hope to continue to share about my travels throughout our last year living abroad in the next few days or weeks!
-Gina
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