The country will soon be empty.Īpparently you shouldn’t bother going to Romania, because soon the country will be abandoned anyway. That’s right, like you’re back in HIGH SCHOOL. Oh to be ten again! 5. You’re going to have flashbacks to your high school Latin/French/Spanish classes.Īs Romanian is a Romance language, you’ll have to forget the Russian that’s been helping you through the rest of Eastern Europe and brush up on your Latin roots. My favorite was the father road-tripping with his 10-year-old daughter, which gave me a huge burst of nostalgia for bologna and mustard sandwich fueled father-daughter road trips from Massachusetts down to visit family in Kentucky. Other times, however, hitchhiking in Romania was a breeze, and we found rides with some of the nicest people. A few times we had to give up, which was bad news considering public transport in Romania can be surprisingly expensive. We usually use Hitchwiki to find the best spots to catch rides, but in Romania that tended to lead us straight to crowds of other hitchhikers. On the downside, lots of locals are hitchhiking too, so you’ll have to compete for rides! On the plus side, hitchhiking is totally normal in Romania, so no one is going to think you’re a serial killer. I shudder just at the thought… 4. If you hitchhike, you’re up for some stiff competition. Creepy Pants.ĭowntown Sighișoara – we stayed at this lovely pension 3. Plus, hello, this is the birthplace of Dracula, aka Vlad Dracul, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Mr. It’s also taught me how to spot a vampire, so I wasn’t fooled by all the beautiful and incredibly charming people I met in Romania. If living in the age of True Blood, Twilight and The Vampire Diaries has taught me anything, it’s that vampires are real. I try to be a savvy traveler, and sometimes that means taking cues from pop culture. Vampires are real, and they’re in Romania. In fact, the roads I did see were quite impressive compared to, say, the often one-lane national “highways” in Norway. At a Suie Paparude concert in Cluj-Napoca, to be exact.Īnd while zooming through the Transylvanian countryside, I didn’t see many dirt roads. I had heard that visiting Romania would be like traveling back in time, where I could expect to see plenty of quaint villages sprinkled with haystacks and horses pulling carts along dirt roads.īut a few days after blissfully traipsing through pre-Industrial villages, I found myself smack dab in the middle of Romania circa 1993 2015. To help fellow travelers out, I’ve come up with a list of the nine most important things to look out for should you be so intrepid as to consider a trip Romania yourself.īecause, let’s be real, who doesn’t prefer blog posts in the form of a list? 1. It’s like being thrown around a bizarre time warp. There’s still a lot to fear from Romania. In fact, in a mind-boggling contradiction to the popular stereotype, we managed to hold onto our wallets during our entire two weeks in Romania.ĭon’t breathe sighs of relief too quickly, though. ![]() It turned out Dan and I both still had our wallets, phew. Their first question for us: “Why did you want to come here?”įollowed by: “Weren’t you scared to come Romania?”Īnd: “Have you been robbed yet? Are you sure? Where’s your wallet?” When Dan and I arrived in Cluj-Napoca, our Couchsurfing host Radu took us out to dinner with a bunch of his friends. I guess it was starting to feel like the end, as after Romania we would only have the Balkan countries left before flying to Norway and unpacking our backpacks.Įntering Romania also marked something exciting: my 70th country! I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but it felt good! Arriving in Romania seemed to mark a new phase of our trip.
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