The last city we visited on our 2024 trip to Romania was Sighișoara. Sighișoara, Romania was founded by German Saxons, was the home of Vlad The Impaler’s (Dracula) father and is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. This was the second trip to Sighișoara for Adriana and myself, the first trip was in 2010 and we stayed in a small hostel while we were there. On this trip we had Dan, Adriana’s brother and sister and their families…
On April 30th, 2024 (the same day we visited the Merry Cemetery) we visited the Maramureș Village Museum in Sighetu Marmației, Romania. This post will contain mostly pictures, if I think of anything to say about them I will. You are permitted to enter most of the building and you can see the typical things found in these homes when they were lived in. And a photo of my beautiful wife, Adriana.
After leaving Vișeu de Sus we headed to Săpânța, Romania (pronounced Sapantza). We stopped in Sighetul Marmației, Romania to visit a museum that is dedicated to when Romania was a communist country. If you have any silly ideas about how wonderful communism is, you should visit this museum, which was a prison at one time for people who the government saw as a threat to their ideals. I did not take many pictures at the museum and I will not post…
After leaving Hunedoara we headed for the area of Maramureș, Romania, minus our nephew and his girlfriend. The city we were staying in was Vișeu de Sus and before arriving we all thought that it would be much smaller than it actually is, it’s not a huge city but we were expecting a village. The distance from Hunedoara to Vișeu de Sus is not very far if you were to draw a straight line on a map but by car…
On April 21st, 2024 Adriana, Dan and I left Oswego, NY and flew to Romania. After traveling for many hours we finally arrived in Bucharest (Optopeni), Romania on the 22nd of April. Adriana and I headed to the city of Onești with her sister and brother-in-law who met us at the airport and Dan stayed with his biological father’s family in Bucharest. On April 27th, 2024 we left Onești and headed for Bucharest, Romania to pick up Dan. After getting…
This post contains some photos of trains that I took on our recent trip to Romania between April 21st and May 3rd of 2024. I don’t know anything about the trains, like what kind of engine they have or which cities they travel to and from, etc. The photos were taken through the window of a moving car, I was in the front passenger seat. If you know anything about the trains, please leave a comment. The above photo was…
I ordered Faller’s Bran Castle model from Reynauld’s Euro Imports just over a week ago and it arrived this past Friday. I plan on making a H0 scale model train layout in my basement (my future man cave) when we’re done renovating our house and this model will be one of its main focal points. I wish that I could make the whole layout based on Romania but unfortunately there aren’t to many items to accomplish that. Faller 130820 Bran…
Adriana and I met online as friends on a website called “Zorpia”, this was long before either one of us was on Facebook. Zorpia was like MySpace at the time and I don’t remember people using it to hook up with each other, the website had a message board and personal pages which people could use like the personal pages on MySpace. We eventually became more than just friends and we used Yahoo Messenger to talk with each other every…