Category: Romania

Being neither forewarned nor forearmed, we decided to hike up Piatra Mica, a trail that was depicted as merely “challenging” in the park literature. In the United States, it would have been described as “dangerous to life and limb, only climb with professional equipment”.

Zărnești .. more of a waypoint than a destination, but our inn had tasty food.

After Dar’s attempt to die in a foreign country from hummus-related food poisoning, an exciting ambulance ride through the Romanian countryside communicating with the paramedics via Google Translate, and the subsequent skipping of a day of hiking while we holed up in a hotel in Brașov so she could recover, we luxuriated for two days in Măgura, feeling like we had retired to the Alps.

At our cute hotel in historic Brașov, we consumed a bountiful breakfast and then set forth through the woods to Râșnov with snacks we’d purchased at the nearby Carrefour. It was on this hike that the fateful hummus was consumed.