Dateline: Bucegi Mountains, Romania
If you're a regular reader over at my laugh-riot, almost-award-winning blog, Killing Batteries (and if not, why exactly?), you'll know that I do my share of complaining. It's my way. I must complain to vent pent up rage or I'd have gone ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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My Bloody Romania: Bucegi Mountains (of garbage)
Dateline: Bucegi Mountains, Romania
If you're a regular reader over at my laugh-riot, almost-award-winning blog, Killing Batteries (and if not, why exactly?), you'll know that I do my share of complaining. It's my way. I must complain to vent pent up rage or I'd have gone ...My Bloody Romania: Bra?ovywood - Give me a sign! Any sign!!
Dateline: Bra?ov, Romania
Why is it that the top two tourist destinations in Romania have virtually no signage to assist the, you know, tourists? Seriously, this mystery has kept me up at night and driving in maddening circles during the day, cursing the mothers of city ...My Bloody Romania: The real Dracula's Castle
Dateline: Dracula's Castle, Romania
Wake up people, Leif's Un-Authorized, Tell-All, Myth-Busting, Ass-Kicking, Hyphenation-Extravaganza is about to begin.
I'm about to provide you with priceless information that will make you a star at your pub's next video trivia game ...My Bloody Romania: Not your ordinary Arge?
Dateline: Curtea de Arge?, Romania
Do you ever have that dream where you're just traveling along from town to town for weeks on end, meeting people, visiting arresting sights and all of a sudden you realize that you forgot to put on pants before you left America? And when ...My Bloody Romania: The Transf?g?r??an Road
Dateline: Tooling around the Transf?g?r??an Road, Romania
Nicolae Ceau?escu, Romanian dictator for 25 years, was a clown at best and a cruel, brutal sonofabitch at worst. His homely wife Elena was just the same, with the additional failing of being dumber than goose ca-ca. ...My Bloody Romania: Sibiu, slippery when wet
Dateline: Sibiu, Romania
Sun, warmth and temperature perfection; that pretty much sums up the first 48 hours of my Vladling road trip in Transylvania. At exactly 48 hours, one minute and 15 seconds, Romania suffered a freak, only-when-it's-me, inclement weather zap. The ...My Bloody Romania: 'Vladling' in Transylvania
Dateline: Târgu Mure?, Romania
The first incarnation of my online blogging presence was called Every Notable Patch of Grass in Romania. The title was apt, as I had already lived and traveled in Romania for nearly a year and was about to embark on my Lonely Planet ...My Bloody Romania: Ia?i - some things don't change
Dateline: Ia?i, Romania
Further to my short list of conspicuous changes that have taken hold in Ia?i in the past 12 months, equally some things haven't changed at all. Things that you'd kinda wished they'd prioritized. Like the city works.
I'm staying in a private ...My Bloody Romania: Ia?i - things change
Dateline: Ia?i, Romania
Having finally found the strength to leave the house for a good wander around the city center, I slipped into a phone booth and switched into my alter ego, Travel Writer Man.
Travel Writer Man has a lot of crap that he likes to haul around: Palm ...My Bloody Romania: Hero gloriously returns to zero fanfare
Dateline: Cruising altitude, en route from Minneapolis to JFK I hold in my hands a just-out-of-the-box, mint condition copy of Lonely Planet's Romania and Moldova. This is significant for two reasons: One, I plan to do a fair bit of travel in Romania's Moldavia and ...Where on Earth Week 19: Brasov, Romania!
Okay, gang. The next Where on Earth is going to be in a cave! With the lights off. And no one will be to guess it.
So, I boasted on Wednesday that no one was going to nail the location of the above photograph and I was proven wrong in less than an hour by Beanie (and then a ...Witchcraft in EU Courts?
Just as soon as Romania has been let into the EU, there's double, double, toil and trouble brewing. A Romanian judge has been fined and demoted for practicing witchcraft in her court.
Elena Simionescu is alleged to have splashed mud, water, "other liquids," as well as salt ...Word for the Travel Wise (02/01/07)
Tonight I think it's time to step our Romanian language game up a little by providing you with this simple and useful phrase to use during your stay. Today's phrase is a Romanian phrase used in Romania: Cu placere. - You're welcome. If you'd like to know some real practical ...Romania to Buy Dracula's Castle
The state of Romania has made one of its first announcements as a new EU member loud and clear: they want to buy the medieval fortress in Transylvania, Bran Castle (known also as "Dracula's Castle") back from the former royal family of Habsburgs, Reuters reports. The price ...Changes in the European Union, 2007
Every new calendar year brings about changes in the European Union which affect those who travel there regularly.
My favorite change is the addition of two more countries to Europe's non-smoking club. Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in public places a few years ...Photo of the Day (12/25/06)
Here is one to Romania! It's hard to believe they will be a part of the EU in no time...
I have never been but the mountains (Piatra Craiului) are supposed to be great. A few of my friends have gone there to hike and ski and loved it. Here is a photo of the countryside from ...Word for the Travel Wise (11/11/06)
Say goodbye to your loved ones before heading to the land of Dracula as you may never see them again. (Insert wicked laughter.) Okay, sorry... Am I going to bring up another Dracula reference every time I give you a Romanian word? Gee, I hope not. I'm short on creative ...MSN's 10 Places to Get Spooked
BOO! Halloween is now only a week away and it is time for some real trip planning if you have yet to begin. If you're too embarrassed to go cruise your home digs in costume with a begging bag in hand consider some of these ghostly destinations provided by MSN. Start with a ...Word for the Travel Wise (09/24/06)
I'm as beat as beat comes so let's just hop right into the word for the night. Hope this oen helps someone out there! Today's word is a Romanian word used in Romania: ajutor - help If you'd like to know some real practical basics visit this Easy Romanian site. They offer ...Word for the Travel Wise (07/24/06)
The best thing about traveling sometimes is the return home after you've made incredible lifelong friends across the globe. From time to time they'll only be other backpackers exploring the same terrain, but if you've made a good effort to meet more locals than tourists ...
