Best of Romania

Best:

• Turda: My day in Turda was probably more about the people I met then the place, but the hiking was beautiful, and the fish was great.
• People: Everyone I met in Transylvania was really generous, really wanting to help, and not looking for money or trying to scam me.
• Food: Romanian cuisine is really great.  Pimento is pretty important.  One thing I missed was the Tripe soup.

Worst:

• Walking around the towns: The towns of Cluj and Brasov were cool, but not an interesting experience.  Getting into some adventure was much more memorable.
• Bucharest: Pretty shitty place.  Big without much character.  Seeing where Ceausescu was overthrown was pretty cool though, and imagining all the rioting.
• This one sandwich: Really sucked.  I got it in Brasov and it was called “Crispy” and was supposed to come with a “special bread.”  It was soggy and came with untoasted shitty white bread.

The wall outside Bucharest’s Parliament building.

Bucharest’s wannabe Champs-Elysee.  Sad and shitty.