Time travel Romania

We have been in Romania for four days now - it's super beautiful here and feels a bit like a time travel! Often we share the road with horse-drawn carts, in the villages the elderly sit together in front of their small houses. Vegetables are grown everywhere in the gardens, which are sold at the market. Fields are worked with a scythe and horse-drawn carts. Of course, there are also some cars driving, but we still attract many looks!
Pink and red are obviously in here - preferably in combination, and that applies to both clothes and the color of the houses!

Many Roma families live in the villages, who move into vacant houses or huts and live with the bare essentials. In one village, we were greeted with joy and pride, and they showed us their house and yard.

After driving through the Maramures region in northern Romania on the first day, we spent our first night in Borsa in the garden of a married couple. He waved us into his garden as we were looking for a suitable place to sleep. Open garden gate, we reversed in.

The next day we drove further south to Sovata. As we had just parked to take a look around, two men approached us. It took a while for us to understand that we were parking in front of a church and that a bridal couple would soon come down, which we absolutely should see. Of course, we did that and even got some plum palinka!

The next morning we went to Sighisoara (birthplace of Dracula). For sleeping, we treated ourselves to a campsite, which turned out to be a small extra parking lot of a hotel with separate toilets and showers (quite common here). We shared the place with Annemarie and Hans, two newly retired people who explore the southeast with their motorhome, just like us, but with a bit more luxury. But one evening we also benefited from that, because after a first beer together on the hotel terrace it got pretty cool (summer hasn't arrived here yet). So we all moved into the motorhome together (the heating has something going for it!) and sat together and chatted until late in the evening.

Now we are in Sibiu, without our doormat... it's probably still on the hotel parking lot... somehow we knew that it would happen at some point!

Send us some sun!

Pe curând!

Lucas and Henni