{"id":1108,"date":"2021-03-02T13:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overland-travel.dk\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:37:00","slug":"transylvania-2015-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overland-travel.dk\/en\/transsylvanien-2015-afsnit-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania 2015 Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After overnights in the open nature, it is high time to find a campsite and have a bath. However, it is not entirely without challenges, as the GPS has once again enjoyed creating a convoluted route that only GPSs can think of to do. We find a nice place where we can camp for the night and just take care of ourselves a bit. Now we don't have to scare the life out of people and look like savages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out on the road comes a girl walking with a herd of goats. They have been out grazing all day and now they must return home before it gets dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We come through one beautiful landscape after another. The GPS is set to the town of Bran, but has found a route that is probably shorter, but certainly not the one that the normal tourists follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out in the countryside we encounter roadworks, as so many times before. But here they probably started a number of years ago - left the shovels and drove home for a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where there should have been a road, there is now only an excavated pothole. The locals have grown tired of waiting for the work to resume and now shrivel up in the hollow road through their village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We follow the route and through a half-metre deep ditch of holes and larger stones, we drive through a real Roma village. The locals look extremely surprised at the strange car, but smile and wave kindly back when we greet them nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a proper KA-KRUNCH, our one front wheel finds its way onto the only surviving piece of tarmac. It stood almost as if on a pedestal of earth, towering 30-40cm above the ground and we managed to maneuver right over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, the local residents do not have any major sentimental attachment to this piece of asphalt we have now made 5cm lower \u2013 perhaps a memory of bygone, better times, when they were offered improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are approaching Bran, where Dracula's castle is located. The town is a real tourist magnet, and we are certainly not the only ones interested in vampire history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In fact, the area around the castle is full of people and souvenir shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A shopping center with a caf\u00e9 is also there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since we have found a parking space, we just have to sit down and have a little rest. Now we have driven around the countryside for so long and then we come to this tourist centre. A bit of an upheaval, but that's fine enough. We find a caf\u00e9 and order a few pizzas. The menu card is not understandable and the clerk does not speak English. So we order food, it can't go wrong right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Johnny is unlucky enough to get a fish pizza with anchovies. It doesn't go down very well, as fish are preferably just something we look at when we're out on a diving trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But down it comes. After a good lunch, we will go up and see the castle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After overnights in the open nature, it is high time to find a campsite and have a bath. However, it is not entirely without challenges, as the GPS has once again enjoyed creating a convoluted route that only GPSs can think of to do. V<\/p>\n

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