May 9th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
Today is Independence Day in Romania, a country most known for the Transylvania region and its implied ties to the legend of Dracula. It's often overlooked in a traveler's typical European Grand Tour, even among eastern European countries. If you have the time to explore, you'll find absolutely gorgeous country villages, cheap and good-quality wine and beer, and evidently, bad ass old men. From ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: Proud To Be Romanian
May 9th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
Today is Independence Day in Romania, a country most known for the Transylvania region and its implied ties to the legend of Dracula. It's often overlooked in a traveler's typical European Grand Tour, even among eastern European countries. If you have the time to explore, you'll find absolutely gorgeous country villages, cheap and good-quality wine and beer, and evidently, bad ass old men. From ...A Traveler In The Foreign Service: A Guys Road Trip To Transylvania
Jan 24th, 2013 at 10:00AM: In the Foreign Service, it's easy to calculate who your best friends are. They're the people who will come visit you in places like Khartoum, Yekaterinburg or Bujumbura. Diplomats who get posted to London, Paris, Rome and a handful of other cushy places find themselves running informal bed and breakfast operations, as marginal friends and distant relatives come out of the woodwork to claim a free ...Prehistoric cave art discovered in Transylvania
Jun 18th, 2010 at 9:30AM: A group of speleologists exploring a cave in the Apuseni Nature Park in Transylvania, Romania, have discovered what could be Central Europe's oldest cave art. Paintings of now-extinct species rhinoceros and cat were found next to images of bison, a horse, a bear's head, and a female torso.
While dating cave art is difficult, based on the style archaeologists believe the figures are anywhere ...Get out and go: Events around the world (October 28-31)
Oct 27th, 2009 at 4:30PM: It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly spooky selection of happenings. It is Halloween weekend after all. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and go!
Denmark - Since the first Music Harvest in 1985, the festival has presented contemporary music from the USA, Russia, Britain, Germany, Hungary, ...From the New Europe: Transylvania art in the streets of Budapest
Mar 28th, 2008 at 11:00AM: If Hungary is on your travel list this spring, make sure to check out the open air art exhibit in the streets of Budapest.
According to the Budapest Sun Online, sculptures, paintings and photographs by Hungarian contemporary artists have broken out of galleries to enjoy the spring scenery.
Szabadság tér, the green area in front of the television building in Budapest, brings ...Talking Travel with Eric Nuzum, Author of The Dead Travel Fast
Oct 31st, 2007 at 6:30AM: I've never watched a horror movie from start to finish and I'm not a fan of haunted houses. Needless to say, I didn't have high hopes that I would make it through Eric Nuzum's new book about stalking vampires. But the title intrigued me enough to start it, and then, well -- when a book begins with someone attempting to drink their own blood, you just can't help but get sucked in. For Nuzum, it all ...My Bloody Romania: Hero gloriously returns to zero fanfare
Aug 31st, 2007 at 1:37PM: 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 Transylvania regions over the course of the next month. Two, it just so happens that I wrote/updated half this staggering work of ...Romania to Buy Dracula's Castle
Jan 11th, 2007 at 9:55AM: 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 tag? 60 million Euros.
The castle was confiscated from the Habsburgs by the communists after WWII and just last year the ...Transylvania International Film Festival
Apr 9th, 2006 at 11:32PM: It always does me
great pleasure to step out and away from the places I only dream of voyaging to one day to share with you my personal
thoughts on places I have seen with my own two. This happens to be the case today with Cluj-Napoca, Romania. This year
marks the 5th edition of the Transylvania International Film
Festival to be held June 2-11, 2006 in the Eastern European university town filled ...
