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Road Tripping in Transylvania, Romania

Romania has a lot of pretty awesome things to see BUT a lot of them are quite out of the way and public transport doesn’t always cut it. Luckily, I had 2 friends fly in from England to visit me [...]

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Visting Borat’s Home Town – Gold, Romania

I had heard a rumour that Borat’s home town (from the movie) was actually filmed in Romania, and with a rental car already sorted, in true tasteless fashion I sought it out with some serious vigour. After some online research [...]

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Visiting Dracula’s Castle in Romania

As soon as I had confirmed my travel through Romania, I could only focus on one destination – Dracula’s castle in Bran, Transylvania! My mates and I rented a car, so from Brasov it was only a 30 minute drive [...]

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Backpacking in Brasov; Top 5 Things to See in Brasov

Romania has really blown me away. Bucharest was a beautiful city, but I’d heard Brasov was possibly even nicer. I wasn’t having any of it, and then driving in to the city from the south, it looked industrial. This is [...]

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Top 3 Things to See in Bucharest

I knew Wandering Earl had been living in Bucharest, Romania for the past 6 months so I was expecting it to be a bit special. I met Earl for coffee one afternoon and after about an hour I could see [...]

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