Poiana Brasov

‘You pay foreigner price’

by Craig Turp January 6, 2010 Romania

 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 [...]

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Poiana Brasov: Nice place, shame about the prices and the (lack of) pistes

by Craig Turp November 11, 2009 Romania

 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); [...]

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Balea Lac is the only serious option for a proper Romanian ski resort

by Craig Turp August 21, 2009 Romania

 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 [...]

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