Below is a photo of the Hungarian Restaurant we enjoyed a couple nights ago in Budapest. Enchanted by the music, we bought a CD to bring home the memory!
The photo on the right is a view of Cluj from the ruins of the citadel above the city. Quite a view of a lovely small city.
Finally sitting still long enough to bring you all up-to-date. We arrived in Cluj last night after a lovely train ride from Budapest. We had a series of mis-adventures earlier in the day - mostly involving missed trains - but once we came to the beautiful mountain country in Romania, it was all worth it.
Hotel Capitol is a modern, clean and friendly place right in the midst of the university area - which is relatively quiet in the summer! The room is small, but air conditioned and pleasant. As I write, the birds are singing away and life is good.
We walked much of the city today. We passed another time zone, so now we are seven hours earlier here. We didn't know that until breakfast - so I got an to sleep in until 9AM! The breakfast is exceptionally nice here. Several choices and very filling, tasty (and familiar) food. We had an equally great lunch at Hubertus'. It was listed as the city's "most refined dining option" and the bonus was an English menu! The service was exemplary, and the price was very reasonable. Everything was a la carte, but we still had a huge lunch for about $25.00 (72 leu).
We saw the Orthodox Catholic church, where I remembered Mom (my grandmother), and took pictures everywhere, including the remains of a citadel. See a sample above.
Tomorrow we rent a car and drive south to Turga (what a name!) to see an impressive gorge where caves are found in the cliffs which used to hide outlaws! Hopefully it will be our wilderness hike for this trip If this internet connection holds up, I'll report on that venture tomorrow.
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