Category: travelling
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My Sibiu International Theater Festival 2013
Sibiu International Theater Festival celebrated its 20th edition this year with great performances, from all cultural areas. It was a mixture of theater, music concerts, theater for children, dance, street performance and circus. I was happy to be a part of all this and get the chance to see some great acts with great artists.
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Bella Italia – Day 1 and 2
Somewhere during last winter, I saw this picture on facebook and said to myself that this would be the perfect place for a summer holiday. So we started planning the whole trip and here we are, on a Friday morning leaving from Bucharest to Bologna and taking the train to Cinque Terre.
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[Romania] Roman City Porolissum
In the district of Salaj, close to the cities Zalau and Jibou lies a 2000 years old Roman city, with a surface of over 500ha. Nowadays, most of the buildings have disappeared, but traces of the life in the Romans and Dacians era are still visible. Porta Praetoria
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[Romania] Jibou Botanical Garden
Jibou is a small city somewhere in Transylvania. You might even think that there isn’t too much to say about a town of this size. But actually, it hides one of the most beautiful, well organized and maintained Botanical Gardens I have seen so far in Romania.
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[Romania] Grădina Zmeilor Natural Reserve
Somewhere in the direction of Zalau, in a village called Gâlgău Almaşului there is an unique and one of the most weird natural places named by the locals Grădina Zmeilor Natural Reserve. Translated in English, it would mean The Dragons’ or Ogres’ Garden. In the Romanian folk mythology a ‘zmeu’ is a fantastic creature, imagined as…
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[Romania] The Banffy Castle
Last weekend we went to Cluj and on Saturday we had a road trip in the Cluj and Salaj districts in search of some beautiful places, 100% authentic Romanian culture and nature. Our first stop was the Banffy Castle, in the Bontida village, 30 km far from Cluj, in the direction of Dej.
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Sibiu International Theatre Festival 2013
Summer starts this year in Sibiu with an amassing celebration, the twentieth edition of the International Theatre Festival. Something that no man truly in love with art and culture should under no circumstances miss.
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[Romania] On the Moaşa Valley to the Howling Wolves Waterfalls
The weekend that has just passed was one of those weekends that made me think to myself : ‘Boy, am I happy that summer started in May this year!’ We went camping for two days on the Moaşa Valley, a small river, somewhere 30 kilometers far from Sibiu and had a lovely weather and a…
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From Budapest to Berlin in 10 days
There was a music festival in Budapest somewhere at the end of April last year and a great party at the beginning of May in Berlin. There were days and days of thinking which one to chose or how to get to both of them and after struggling to find a solution, after so many…
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[Germany] The two faces of Frankfurt
I travelled to Frankfurt somewhere at the beginning of March and I was in a lazy mood ever since so here it is, with a 3-week delay, the Maintropolis (like the locals like to call this city) experience.
