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[Life of Doo] I spent the past few days in Brasov, and they came out to be incredible. To bad my shots aren’t as good.

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[Budapest Travel - Culture and Recreation] Mealey's Miscellany: Eastern Europe retroblog: Budapest: We did Budapest for a few days, then Romania””SighiÅŸoara, BraÅŸov and Rasnov, hiked in the Piatra Craiului mountains, back to BraÅŸov, Sinaia, and to Bucharest to meet my Romanian publisher””then a night train to Belgrade, .

[Vacations @ RealAdventures] Residence Hirscher - Brasov, Romania Hotels & Resorts: Hirscher offers residential accommodation in Brasov historic centre, at the foot of Mount Tâmpa. Here, far from the noises of the city, guests will find shops, restaurants and historic sites such as the renowned Dracula’s Castle, museums, monasteries and abbeys.

[Lucian Savluc - Blog] Rasnov Citadel | CianBlog: He done a great job there, rebuilding it, so right now it looks almost identical how it was hundreds of years ago.You can visit the halls and dungeons, you can look at ancient weapons, throw a coin in the citadel fountain (143 meters deep, where the legend says it took more than 15 years to dig), take a look on the beautiful surrounding landscape and finally, you can rest for a cold beer on the rustic patio that is inside the citadel inner court.When I was a kid, we use to spend days in between those old walls and ruins. I remember how fascinating was.

[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] (NEW for the 20th Anniversary) Bullets, Lies, and Videotape: The ...: Journalist and documentary-maker Maria Petrascu, who with her since deceased husband Marius, had for years investigated the Brasov events, also drew attention to the type of ammunition used in December 1989 when she recalled in 2007 that, “For a long time the Brasov Military Procuracy didn’t do anything, although they had evidence, statements, documents, photos and even the atypical bullets brought by the families of those killed or wounded.”[7] A soldier shot on 23 December 1989 in Buzau recently admitted that his doctors changed their declarations regarding the bullet with which he had been hit””identified by another soldier with whom he was interned as a ”˜vidia’ bullet””to standard 7.62 mm ammunition.[8] In fall 2006, the daughter of a priest recalled:

[academichic] 29 September 2009 - Two Dresses in Brasov : academichic: I’ve heard about all the cities you’ve been uploading pics of my entire life (my grandparents and mom are originally from Romania, and my grandparents always spend the summers there), and have always tought of them as “old”. It’s great to see them through your eyes!

[The Romanian Revolution of December 1989] Bullets, Lies, and Videotape: The Amazing, Disappearing Romanian ...: Even the halls were filled with the dead, there were over 100.  They didn’t have any place to put them all, we walked through pools of blood, we saw the cadavers of children, young people, adults, shot in the forehead, in the heart, in the feet and abdomen with brains and intestines having exploded, nightmarish scenes that I shall never forget.  It was then that we decided we wouldn’t rest until we discovered who fired, because we had begun to understand that many of those killed had been shot by guns with infrared scopes, by some professionals.[i]

[Projects Abroad Blog] Projects Abroad Blog » Blog Archive » Armando and Tom go to Romania: Alexandru Parasca (Para) picked us up at the airport and the trip from Bucharest to Brasov took us more than three hours since there was a lot of traffic. After some traffic we started to move faster and I really wanted to sleep but the landscapes were so beautiful.

[TravelPod.com TravelStreamâ™ ”” Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] End of year, Travels around Eastern Europe - Skopje, Macedonia ...: After finally hitting up an ATM and eating some food, I walk around the picturesque city, snap some photos, and enjoy the sunset before a big thunderstorm rolls in (perfect timing for my arrival to Transylvania)  We stand on the balcony of the hostel and watch the lightning roll in and then when we start getting drenched by the rain head inside and watch a movie.

[Mitchell's Travel and Photography Blog] Incredible Romania! « Mitchell's Travel and Photography Blog: Finally my inability to speak Romanian has made it next to impossible to communicate in villages, the places where my ideal subjects live, where I want to do most of my shooting.

[In Transit] Q&A: To Bucharest, and Beyond - In Transit Blog - NYTimes.com: The painted monasteries in the Moldova region are incredible and once in the mountains you can find places to stay that take you back to how people lived 500 years ago. Travel in slow in the mountains as well, trying to see more than two to three monasteries a day is difficult on the mountain roads but the scenery and village life is worth it.

[Travel Blog | Photocircuits Barcelona] "If you find something good, take it. If you have something good ...: I loved visiting Dracula's castle and the citadel, it really is crazy to be in the presence of something so ancient. I also loved spending the afternoon in Brasov and .

[TravelPod.com TravelStreamâ™ ”” Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Brasov and Dracula's Castle! It was a blast. - Brasov, Romania ...: . The bus driver was driving literally 10/mph. It was so slow, but it gave me a chance to take more pictures and not have such big motion sickness. When I arrived in Brasov, I really had to use the bathroom and I took a picture of the signs because it was backwards and I had to pay to use the restroom.

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