our unsuccessful castle visit
Brasov is the perfect place for day trips around transylvania so a few us headed out for the day to Sinaia to visit the Peles castle that was there. I was with Pete who is an english guy spending 2 weeks in Brasov to write some research thing for uni on tourism in Brasov and Dracula stuff, so he trying to take notes on any amazing insights we had into the world of tourism….I’m not sure if we were ever helpful! Also with Dutch # 1 and #2.
We finally headed to the train station after everyone eventually got up and made it onto the train at around 12.30. It was a 2 hour trip out there and a rally nice train ride through the mountains and saw lots of little villages and things long the way.
Sinaia was really beautiful, set amoungst mountains and lots of cute houses around including some very gothic ones that could totally have been haunted and very dracula-esq
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We were pretty hungry by this stage so grabbed some lunch at a seemingly cheap restaurant which turned out to be expensive as menu prices weren’t quite what they seems! Never mind though as in this part of the world, the difference is only ever a couple of dollars.
Finally we headed on up to try find the palace, we stoped at cute monastary on the way then walked all the way up this hill before evenually finding the entrance to the castle which we joked that by this time it might be closed.
It was.
Actually it was Monday and it wasn’t even open on Monday, the guards wouldn’t even let us walk around the outside! We thought briefly about climbing through the hills and sneaking around the front but there are bears and guards with guns. So we found a good vantage point to get photos, we still saw the whole front of it, and really to be honest, the insides are never that great. So while our day tip was a little unsuccessful we still saw the castle, and the monastery and the town was really nice.
We headed back down to the train station which we discovered wasn’t that far at all we had just somehow missed the main entrance (not that you would actually think to put a sigh there or anything) and walked the very long way.
We had an hour or so ait for the train then a 2 hour ride back where we discussed uni, politics and life without coming up to answers for anything . The ride back was nice and by the time we made it back to the hostel it was getting dark. We stoped at a supermarket and brought heap of veges and cooked up thi masive healthy meal whch was awesome and had it while watching the worst movie ever, but also one of the funniest, Eurotrip- always god to watch while backpakcing around Europe and ofending every european in the room with horrible stereotypes of their country. We headed to bed early with another day trip planned for the next day. Well, me and Pete did while the dutch guys ended up staying up till 5 am with some Canadians and never quite made it on our day trip.
Tags: blogsherpa, brasov, castle, Romania, Sinaia, TRAVELS 2008
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