There are a lot of abandoned buildings dotted around the Transylvanian countryside. Combinations of factories, mills, farm houses and empty apartment blocks falling to pieces are a common site whilst travelling through the countryside.
Tag: Romania
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Cluj-Napoca
I stayed in Cluj-Napoca for a few days following the WordCamp Transylvania conference. I had a great time in Cluj. It was terrific meeting up with Ivelina who was visiting from Bulgaria, Remkus from the Netherlands, Scribu in his homeland and making new friends including the delightful Anda, one of the local WordPress geeks who can you see a pic of below.
Cluj-Napoca in all of it’s rustic charm 🙂 
Anda at the hack day 
Scribu, Remkus and me Ivelina and I 
Ivelina 
I stayed in a rather eccentric little hotel called Pension Déjà Vu. 
Anda and I Thanks to Ivelina for some of the photos.
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Transylvanian countryside
The Transylvanian countryside is beautiful. They have a terrific mixture of beautiful greenery and rustic charm. I highly recommend checking it out if you ever get the opportunity. They even had some sheep to make me feel like home 🙂
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WordCamp Translyvania
The organisers of a web development conference called WordCamp Transylvania invited me to come give a presentation at their event. I enjoyed my last trip to Romania so much that I decided to head back again this year. I had never been to Transylvania so it was a great opportunity to see the countryside while I was at it. Everyone I talked to in Bucharest last year told me I would enjoy Transylvania more, and they were correct 🙂 The people are nice and things more move slowly in these parts.
Me at WordCamp Transylvania 
Remkus de Vries 
Scribu, aka Cristi Burcă, discarding the pizzas on hack day. 
Paul Gibbs getting animated 
Remkus de Vries discussing business in WordPress 
Anda Pop at the hack day -
WordCamp Romania
Geir Ellefsen, Kaspars Dambis, Ryan Hellyer (me), Frederick Townes and Joost de Valk at WordCamp Romania 
WordCamp Romania crew at laser tag 
Geir Ellefsen and Kaspars Dambis 
Kaspars Dambis and Geir Ellefsen having a few beers 
Cristi Burcă (Scribu) and Joost de Valk at laser tag. 
Cristi Burcă (Scribu), Joost de Valk and Ryan Hellyer (me) having a few beers 
Kaspars Dambis, Geir Ellefsen, Joost de Valk and Ryan Hellyer (me) in Bucharest, Romania 
From left: Auras, Geir, Turcu, Scribu, me and Kaspars. Thanks to Joost for the photo.
