Destinations

The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina | Philip Sen | Romania, Bucovina (North-Western), Bucovnia

Seldom visited by outsiders, the county of Bucovina harbours in its valleys a lingering grace and the soul of a past that the rest of Europe has long forgotten

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The Vampire Strikes Back | Clive Tully | Romania, Transylvania (Central), Brasov

It’s been a long and tiring journey by horse-drawn cart along winding tracks through dense, dark Transylvanian forests. High on the Borgo Pass, the imposing building before me seems to have a grim foreboding

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Transylvanian Horses | Jasper Winn | Romania, Transylvania (Central), Brasov

It was foggy and damp, but we saddled up the two stallions with Australian stock saddles, whose high cantles and front of leg ‘poleys’ gave good support on mountain ascents and descents

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Where the Wild Things Are | David Atkinson | Romania, Muntenia and Oltenia (Southern), Carpathians

"We are not afraid of the wolves and beers," Gigi tells me. "But sometimes they come to the villages at night..."

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