Every couple of months we take a hike up to Brasov, very much ground zero of Romanian tourism and simply one of the nicest places in the country. Besides the obvious fact that it is always a nice place in which to spend time, we visit Brasov for one main reason: to research the next [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Poiana Brasov’
Bucharest / Romania Webcams
Locals will know about these (but then again we more or less count as locals these days and we never knew they existed), foreigners may not: Romanian webcams, hundreds of them. Hosted by the website of newspaper Jurnalul National, you will find not just Bucharest webcams, but also live live streams from around the country, [...]
‘You pay foreigner price’
Seeing this (scroll down to the seventh snippet of news, about the Frenchie at Romanian monasteries) made us at once jump with joy and remember one of the most surreal moments of our life so far in Romania. It goes back to the days when Romania joining the European Union was beyond anyone’s wildest federal [...]
Poiana Brasov: Nice place, shame about the prices and the (lack of) pistes
We used to have a genuine soft-spot for Poiana Brasov, a legacy of a winter a decade or so ago when we would ski there every weekend. As soon as we’d finished work on a Friday we would head off for Brasov, eat at Taverna (then just about the only decent restaurant in the city); [...]
Balea Lac is the only serious option for a proper Romanian ski resort
A story in Evenimentul Zilei caught our eye this morning: Romania’s much-maligned (and rightly so) Ministry of Tourism is launching a campaign called ‘Schi in Romania’ (no translation required) and is splashing the cash on improving several of Romania’s tiny little one-lift ski resorts. The largest slice of the cake will go to Petrosani, the [...]