I had a beautiful view of the Romanian countryside travelling via train from Cluj-Napoca to Brasov in Transylvania, Romania.
More photos of the Transylvanian countryside coming soon 🙂
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Visiting Steffi in Duisburg
I had an awesome time visiting my friend Steffi in Duisburg. Lots of yummy Germany beer (and strange mixtures of beer and fruit) and of course awesome company.
The mighty Renault Twingo. This eccentric (yet very cool) little car was our transport in Duisburg. It’s lowered and capable of 160 kph on the Autobahn 🙂 
A very strange but tasty beer, called a Bananenweizen. It’s a mixture of Weissbeer and banana juice!? Thankfully it tastes pretty good 🙂 -
Carpathian mountains
Here are some photos I took of the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania. The area is known for it’s high population of brown bears, chamois, lynxes, werewolves and vampires.
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Dracula’s castle
Bran’s castle is the location the Transylvanian locals pimp as the castle of Count Dracula. The actual castle that many believe to be the castle of Dracula is Poenari, the ruins of the castle of Vlad the Impaler who was the inspiration for the Count Dracula story. However Poenari is not actually in Transylvania at all, it’s over the Carpathian mountains via what is apparently a very rough road, so I never visited it. Instead of visited the locals like to market as the Dracula castle and which does look like something that Dracula would have lived in.
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Transylvanian farms, a blast from the past!
Anyone who knows me, knows that I am no expert on farming practices. However, I do know shear craziness when I see it, and cruising past on a train and seeing people cutting grass with skythes and tilling the land by hand definitely fits the bill for a new level of craziness. I even saw some people cruising along with a tractor, but instead of spreading what I assume was seed from the back of the tractor via an automated system, they had five people hanging off the back spreading it by hand!? I felt like I was viewing some sort of strange Amish like group, but in reality these were just regular old Romanian farmers looking to make a buck.
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Brașov
Brașov is a beautiful little town in Transylvania, Romania. I used the town as a base for exploring the surrounding region and as somewhere to chill out whilst on holiday. There are lots of great restaurants and bars to go to and they’re all insanely cheap. I highly recommend checking out the place if you are ever in Romania. It is an excellent stopping point enroute to the surrounding castles or if you are heading north from Bucharest.
Me standing near the Brașov sign. 
View from inside the “B” of the View of the Brașov sign on Tâmpa 
View overlooking Brașov from the sign on Tâmpa 
View overlooking Brașov from the sign on Tâmpa 
Random grave behind the Brașov sign on Tâmpa 
The Brașov sign up close and personal 
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Shady
This looks shady. Is the Guardian being censored now?
Update: Conveniently, someone has paste binned it 🙂
Update 2: It looks like Wayne Madsen, the source in the article has some interesting views on various things. I assume they’ve pulled the article due to him not being considered a reliable source.
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Râșnov Citadel
Râșnov Citadel is a historic fortress overlooking the Râșnov township in Transylvania, Romania. The locals proudly declared that Hollywood copied their innovative sign idea, but judging by the smirk on their faces I suspect it was somewhat the other way around 😛
