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From Jenna Visits Romania
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From Faces of Bucsecs
Category: Adventure
Adventures not covered by other, more specific, categories.
Before we went on our summer holiday Jenna visited me in Romania...
Friday had terrible weather, so after a walk in the mountains in the rain in the morning, we beat a retreat and rented a fishermen’s cottage, or Rorbu, for the night. The rest of the day was taken up with watching the rain out the window, drying gear, and eating cinnamon rolls from the Ã… …
As long as nice summer weather lasts I'm not wasting my time during the weekends. During my drive home from my previous weekend trip I noticed an interesting looking gorge and I decided to come back here to check it out. Then I found out that the area has several Orthodox monasteries worth visiting, one of them even part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Once I work in Romania for a year I have the chance to travel around the country...
5 weeks of parental leave together. But what to do with a 9 month old baby that we can all three enjoy? Daddy likes hiking and mountain biking, mummy also climbing and Paula would love to play at the beach enjoying the sand and water. So we are looking for a spot with great hiking, …
Croesor-Rhosydd Through Trip The Croesor Rhosydd through trip connecting these two extensive and ancient slate mine workings has been on my list of must-do adventures in North Wales for ages. However, we only generally go to Wales when the sun is out, and then we go rock climbing. This time was different though, the through …
My flight to Ireland left Liverpool at stupid o’clock… Compounding that with the taxi driver struggling to find the office I would be based in for the week, by the time I arrived I was knackered!
On Friday afternoon, as I was winding down for the weekend, I recieved a call from the press team at work who were looking for someone to appear on BBC Breakfast on Saturday morning to talk about the recent extreme rainfall and flooding and possible ways to reduce flooding in the future. On Friday their …
Last weekend saw me exploring the Carpathian Mountains again. This time I went to Bucsecs, a mountain area just 2 hours drive from Bucharest, just at the border of Transylvania. This area is characteristic of its enormous rock faces but I saw some other friendly faces as well!
