Transylvania Treasures
Castles, Mountains and Myths
4th - 14th September 2025
The Holiday in Selfies (Actual holiday pix to follow)
Bucharest
Cișmigiu Gardens - N/A Romanian Restaurant, by the lake
View from Hotel Cișmigiu Sky Bar, with the Parliament building floodlit
behind
The Parliament Building - not floodlit
In the Parliament Building where "team phonos" are taken
Carol Park: Nation's Heroes Monument
AKA: Monument of the Heroes for the Freedom of the People and of the Motherland,
for Socialism (during the Communist period)
View to the Monument through the park
Lake Herăstrău - One bridge taken from the top of another
Lake Herăstrău - Fountain on Insula Trandafirilor
Sucevița [painted] Monastery
Sucevița on approach from entrance - scaffolding over the famous bit!
("Ladder of Virtue")
Sucevița on approach from entrance (to the left of the scaffolding)
Moldovița [painted] Monastery
The "sunlit" side of the monastery
Monument to the Road Builder (Monumentul Drumarilor)
Sighișoara
View of Sighișoara from the Clock Tower
A different view of Sighișoara from the Clock Tower
Dracula's (Vlad the Impaler's) birthplace exhibition
Targu Mures
Inside the Citadel
View from our Targu Mures balcony
Biertan
Around the three defence walled fortification
Alma Vii (lunch spot)
A view to the Lutheran fortified church of Alma Vii
Everybody back on the bus
Bran Castle (fictional home of Count Dracula)
Queuing to get in
View from "outside passage" - well at the middle bottom
Looking back from the well
After the tour and into the grounds
A full view
Off to one side to get the flags in, too
In the town park for an "I love Bran" shot
(Can't really make out the heart, though - needed castle in the picture)
Stopped off at a Ski resort near Brasov
Brașov
View from the White Tower
Next day in the rain, a view to the town through the arch on "Graft
Bastion"
A view down the 1.3m wide Rope Street
The Weaver's Bastion - the best preserved bastion
Selfie with city walls below the hotel
Peles Castle
Two goes at getting a suitable selfie...
Dracula's Bank in Brașov?
