You haven’t been to Romania if you haven’t visited the castle of Dracula – or what the legend wants us to believe was the castle of this figure, invented by Bram Stoker. Yes, we visited before midnight! Bran Castle, or Törzburg in German, is a fortress situated on the Transylvanian side of the historical border …
… that is the famous Transfăgărășan – a mountain road crossing the southern section of the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. It is the second-highest paved road in the country, after the Transalpina. It stretches 90 kilometres between the highest peaks in the country with over 2500 metres. The road, built in the early 1970s as a strategic military route, connects the …
