Bran Castle is the day trip everyone wants to do from Brașov, but working out how to get there can be confusing. I visited Bran Castle in winter with snow on the ground, and I found the buses around Romania surprisingly punctual. The bus station is a little out of the way though, and a…
The country of Romania is split into three provinces, the most famous of which is Transylvania. While Transylvania is not home to Romania’s capital city, it is instead a wide and expansive landscape of flat valleys and rising mountains. And all of this expansive landscape is peppered with medieval Saxon towns, gothic castles, and untouched…
Planning what to do in Brașov can be tricky, because the old town is small but the list of castles, fortresses and day trips around it is huge. Brașov is one of my all-time favourite places in Romania, and I visited in winter, when the old town streets and Râșnov Fortress were covered in snow….