Visited/stayed: Sighisoara in Transylvania Romania- mixed parking 5RON /day N46.2180 E24.7868
Today was a driving day! Even though the roads were good quality, you are constantly in and out of villages with speed limits of 50km/hr. Not that anyone abides to this if they can help it ie the smaller one road villages, travelling at 70km/h and even then cars were still passing us!
This village had about 10 stores selling the same things..talk about competition.
The bigger towns have much more traffic and so takes more time to get through them.
Then there are the slow trucks that you just can’t get around on the windy roads that also go up and down hills.
We also did a stop at Lidl, a petrol station and for a lunch break. We did travel through some pretty countryside and all in all thought we had a fairly good run.
We were a tad concerned how long it would take for the train when people started getting out of their cars...luckily it wasn’t too bad.
More horse and carts today...Sunday must have been a day off.
There were a few Shepard’s with their flocks.
A new church on a hill
Not sure what these would be for...odd shapes and aluminium isn’t great to cook with.
There were some nice fertile valleys
We arrived in Sighisoara at about 3pm which gave us plenty of time to explore the Unesco listed historic walled centre which is popular tourist destination.
Not sure if the main attraction is that it is said to be the birthplace of Vlad Tepes, the Ruler who was notorious for his methods of punishment and hence the inspiration for the fictional character Dracula, or the towns 9 remaining fortification towers. The most significant of these was the 64m Clock Tower built over the main gate in the 13thC.
View of the lower town from the tower and Orthodox Cathedral
Along with most of the buildings here, it was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1676. We also admired the Bootmakers’ Tower in the NE corner of the walled town.
We left town via one of the Tailors’ Tower passageways.
The cobbled streets are also lined with ancient coloured buildings with various architecture merits.
We ascended the 400 year old wooden covered staircase up to the Church on the Hill and then returned to the main square before finishing our visit.
Not having been overly inspired we decided to return to Bluey and have a home cooked meal for dinner and hopefully a peaceful night.
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