Brasov

Brasov: How to see it from the sky

Brasov is often referred to as “the city at the foot of Mount Tampa”.  The town’s original defense fortress was built on this mount but, when Vlad Tepes (the Impaler) attacked Brasov in 1459-1460, the citadel was dismantled, and forty…
Ciucas

The strange shapes of the Ciucas mountains

Autumn was fast approaching, Brasov had its first sprinkling of snow, the trees were turning from lush green to that orangey-browny colour, it was freezing cold and I still had the Ciucas mountains and the bears to visit before we…