A tourist break

I should write about so many things: about lively street life in Bucharest (parks, music, bikes and beer), about sad imprints that blur the photo (stray dogs -oraşul e al nostru-, wandering glue-addict kids, empoverished pensioneers, high profile homeless), about politics (the politically void electoral circus, the Romanian perception on Italian government recent derive -forza, V.-), about the construction fever, the Romania-European Union deluding romance, about either funny or significative everyday challenges (exhausting bill paying, language misunderstandings...).

I should write about so many meaningful things. However, summer is coming, and some of you asked me many weeks ago to describe a little bit the Romanian "touristic circuit". But I'm afraid I have traveled around just a little bit so far, only to Southern Transylvania and the North of Bulgaria. So I will just upload some photos and mention some names.



Transylvania. An up-and-down itinerary through valleys and montains very different from Pyrenees but as impressive or even more, with many historical towns and castles to stop by. Sinaia-Brasov-Sighisoara-Sibiu summarize the route; being Southern Transylvania quite near from Bucharest, it can be done (a part of it) in a week-end, but there's secondary roads and valleys for a week, also. A lot of Dracula merchandising around Bran, the most deceiving spot in the route, from my point of view. Very tasty cheese is sold by the road.
Suceava and Moldava. The "Monastyr route", I've been told it to be one of the most beautiful spots in Romania. Maramures is the distant region everyone want to visit around here these days.
Towns like Cluj or Iasi are both interesting to be seen and the operation center for car trips to Moldova-Suceava-Northern Transylvania. From Tulcea to the East, the Danube delta is the first option for nature lovers (spetially bird lovers), although in any case there's trekking routes all over the country.
Well, maybe this is not a very useful post for people planning a trip, but sometimes traveling is like picking books or CDs, an appealing name and a nice cover fuel imagination... Anyway, this is not at all a planning-in-advance country... Just buy a round ticket and gather some general ideas, and get on the road!