Saturday was to be a short drive and then an afternoon lazing around. Apple confidently predicted 3:30h to Murighiol where we are stopping to see the Danube estuary. We made an earlyish start and expected to be landed by lunch. Garmin immediately put its finger on the scales, engaged adventure routing and secretly added an…

In the last post, Jane set me up to be all knowledgable about the fortified churches. Unfortunately, I think the main interesting point of fortified churches is the fortified bit, not the church. Also, I know very little about churches just a tiny bit more than Jane and enough to bamboozle bore her. Prejmur is a fairly…

We walked Flynn in a loop around Viscri including a very short section (0.25% to be exact) of the Via Transylvanica a long distance path set up by Tășuleasa Social a Romania NGO between 2018 and 2022.  The way is marked by a granite carvings. It’s similar to the Sustrans Millennium Markers in the UK but each Via Transylvania…

The car park at Sovata was near to a walk around the salty lakes which sounded perfect for Flynn’s constitutional. It led up past a few houses and then into the woods. I thought that this rock troll playing the flute would be the hilight of our walk. But, right next to the puddle Flynn…

Departure came late chez Raoul, we were off by 10am. Headed kind of south to Suceava where Steven the Great set up rulership in the C15. The citadel was nice but like a lot of Romania it’s being renovated and the renovation is straying into “rebuilding”. There’s obviously a ship of Theseus argument but this…

One of the best bits about this time of year is that Flynn’s early walk is just about at sunrise. Today Romania put on a belter. It was so good I texted Jane and she got up early for a looky look. Early today. Making the most of the early morning cold (7C when I…