A sleepless overnight train journey to Cluj, Romania, leaves a disgruntled traveler searching for meaning and finding it in the rolling of a cigarette.
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A finalist in our Pilgrimages competition rides the train from Bucharest to Sighișoara, tracing the shadow of the Vlad the Impaler back to his birthplace, on a journey through the …
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While volunteering on a farm in Voivodeni, a small Transylvanian village, Jennifer Roberts encounters an opinionated manager and makes a connection with two refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Ukraine. …
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In the latest entry of the On the Edges of Europe column, travel journalist Thom Brown travels to Brasov, Romania, and finds that the local bears are not the only four-legged creatures he …
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On a trip down the Danube Delta, a writer absorbs the wetland’s beauty and history while learning about its role in the economy of Romania. The narrow channel opened out …
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A British woman travels to Gura Humorului in Moldavia to meet the grandmother of her Romanian partner. I had been anticipating the meeting for so long. Stef’s grandmother lived in …
