Alex's Cat

Back to Romania

This is where Alex, Bob's co-worker lives. Her apartment is directly above her Mother's apartment.

Alex had Bob, me and Ryan over for a traditional Romanian dinner. It was wonderful! Yummy! We began at Alex's Mother's apartment sampling several different Romanian dishes. Then we went up stairs to see Alex's apartment. In a while we returned to Alex's mother's apartment where she had several more different dishes. Chip said he also helped to prepare some of the food. We had a wonderful time and really appreciate how welcome they made us feel and for all the trouble they went to show us their life style.

Alex's Mom with Cip

It could have been worse.

I will continue with the photos from Romania in a few days. So check back later to see more. After nearly 24 hours of travel between Saturday and Sunday we are home. While we were gone the lower part of our house flooded and sat for about a week after a very bad storm. The water drained partly into the walls. Our kids hired a restoration company for us last Friday. They came in and cut out part of the walls, took out carpet, and now the lower part of the house is taped off using fans, de-humidifiers and it is about 117 degrees in that area. Hopefully they can put a stop to the mold. Once they are finished an insurance adjuster will come in to access the damage. So, our house will be under construction for a while. I will be dealing with some of these matters for a couple of days. Please check back later as I have many more pictures of Romania. The positive note is that we did not have a "Grand Forks" catastrophe nor did we have a Florida hurricane disaster which some of our family had to deal with in the past. But, I can see it is going to be a pain!

This is Rope Street. One of Europe's narrowist streets.

Rope Street in Brasov

I am standing at the entrance of Rope Street with Ryan at my left. It seems more like a side walk to me.

We took a cable car to the top of Mount Tampa which offers fantastic views of the city of Brasov.

Once we arrived from the tram we still had some climbing to do to get to the overlook.

Alex and me stopping for a rest.

View of City Center from Mount Tampa

Another view of Brasov from Mount Tampa

Cip and Bob

Cip and Me

At a medieval festival in the fort at Brasov was an archery game. Chip, Alex's fianc'e, accepted the challenge. The first photo shows him starting to release the arrow and the second

photo shows the arrow in mid air. Way to go Bob!

To get to the restaurant you have to go through the walls of the city and upstairs.

(city of Brasov)

Sergiana's Restaurant

The food was very good.

The interior was very quanit with many little private areas.

There are little coves in the wall with displays of shepards and animals.

In the town of Bran you wil find Dracula's Castle. It was a good climb to the entrance.

The grounds were very beautiful. We stopped midway up to take this picture.

I was resting after a long and rugged climb to the castle.