Next Stop, Sibiu!

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“What a difference a day makes.. 24 little hours!” 

So photo number 1 was taken on the night we arrived in Sibiu and shortly after dinner and a bloody lovely snickers ice cream, the heavens opened and it poured. To top things off, we ended up buying two ‘out of date’ bottles of wine from Carrefour. I never even knew out of date wine was possible! But we managed to get them swapped just before they closed.

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Josh and Coops outside our air BnB. The bed was probably the worst bed I have ever slept in but it was cheap so I can’t complain too much.

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We spent the morning exploring the city and I fell in love with the buildings! The little ‘eye’ shaped windows on the majority of the roofs were so quirky. There were hundreds of amazing doors but this one in particular was special (lol, as special as doors get). As we were taking some photos I could see a pair of feet stood behind the door waiting for us to finish. She invited us in and showed us around. Behind the doors was a huge court yard, with several dorms as it was in fact a boarding school for foreign students! I would never have thought it, especially in the heart of the city.

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Then it was back on the road and in to the mountains, although we had a little dilemma. The route we were originally going to take to our cabana was through the mountains, up past the waterfall and over the top. Instead, we had to visit the waterfall and go back on ourselves adding another 3 hours on to our journey because of snow and road closures! To be honest it went pretty fast, what with the best road trip album we had on in the car, plenty of snacks that we picked up from a little stall and the company of course. At the top of this waterfall (and a little further on) lies the ice hotel, popular for a lot of British tourists but unfortunately we never got to see it as the gondolas only go up and down the mountain when there are more than 8 people and we didn’t have much time to burn so we gave it a miss.

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It was at this little pit stop that I tried deer for the first time and wild boar but it’s fair to say that I wouldn’t ever eat them again! We bought so much salami, nougat and the best cheesy bread type thing with sour cream but I can’t remember the name of it. And then our journey into the Fagarasan mountains began…

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It was so eerie and the mountains that surrounded us were huge! They were even bigger than the ones in the Scottish highlands and it really did feel like jurassic park. When we stopped at the dam, I was overwhelmed by the silence, until some wild dogs started howling so we quickly jumped back in the car and carried on up the mountain to our cabana. An hour later, we reached our cabana. The last one before the road closure! We were the only guests staying there which was a little spooky but I managed to sleep really well after a huge glass of red and some cheesy mash potato, haha!

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