Romanian Delights

Discover the beautiful side of Romania 

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Romanians love calculating things in euro, despite the fact that we are not part of the euro zone yet. Our national currency is LEI, which is Romanian for LIONS (1€ is around 4.4 lei), however these lions are far from being the kings of the Romanian jungle. Because everything exceeding 1000 lei is automatically transformed by Romanians in euro. Take the average Romanian family for instance. They’re buying tomatoes for 3 lei a kilo, having a 1 000€ monthly income (providing both grown-ups are working). They fuel up their 2 000€ second hand car with 4.5 lei gas. They live in a 35 000€ apartment with monthly installments of 250€ and have a 40 lei coffee table from Ikea. They have 300€ smartphones and eat a 1 leu pretzel (covrig) as a street snack. They play the 5 lei lottery hoping for the 500 000€ prize. And if all goes well, they grab 19.99 lei bathing suits from h&m and go for an all-inclusive 400€ holiday in Turkey. You’d think we’d be some sort of math geniuses to calculate everything in two currencies. But here’s how our math works: up to 1000 lei we’re talking lei. Above that we’re doing math with 250€ or more. I’m not quite sure if Romanians know how much 376 467 lei (random big amount of lei) is really worth, without transforming it in euro.

So take a 4 lei notebook and a 2 lei pencil or simply open up that calculator app on your 300€ smartphone to avoid getting into a double-trouble currency issue. And stay tuned to find out how you can “Become a Romanian millionaire without getting any richer”.  

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Barajul Siriu

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Retezat National Park, Carpathians

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Sleepy birds  All those sleepy birds Now tired from flight Hide among the leaves Good-night! Only the spring whispers When the wood sleeps silently; Even flowers in the gardens Sleep peacefully! Swans glide to their nest Sheltering among the reeds May angels guard your rest, Sweet dreams! Above a night of sorcery Comes the moon's graceful light, All is peace and harmony Good-night!

Mihai Eminescu

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10 Things to Do in Bucharest, Romania | Slow Travel in Europe and Beyond | CheeseWeb

Romania’s capital city has plenty to offer travellers. Today I share my top 10 things to do in Bucharest from my recent #EnjoyBucharest adventure.

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25 Reasons Why You Should Never Visit Romania! - Family Vacation Blog

It makes no sense to visit Romania. The Corvin Castle in Hunedoara It’s an ugly place with nothing amazing to see. Retezat National Park Landscapes are all grey and creepy. Transylvanian village With tiny hills. Retezat Mountains Roads with no view at all. Transfagarasan road in Transylvania And boring valleys. The Statue of Dacian king Decebalus near …

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Sentimental story  Then we met more often. I stood at one side of the hour, you at the other, like two handles of an amphora. Only the words flew between us, back and forth. You could almost see their swirling, and suddenly, I would lower a knee, and touch my elbow to the ground to look at the grass, bent by the falling of some word, as though by the paw of a lion in flight. The words spun between us, back and forth, and the more I loved you, the more they continued, this whirl almost seen, the structure of matter, the beginnings of things.

Nichita Stanescu

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Waterfall in the Trascau Mountains

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The Lake Izvorul Muntelui, also known as Lake Bicaz, is the largest artificial lake on the interior waters of Romania.

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Love tunnle

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Corvin Castle

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The Danube Delta is the second largest river delta in Europe, after Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent. The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania (Tulcea county), while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine (Odessa Oblast). The approximate surface area is 4,152 km2 (1,603 sq mi), and of that, 3,446 km2 (1,331 sq mi) are in Romania. With the lagoons of Razim-Sinoe (1,015 km2 (392 sq mi) with 865 km2 (334 sq mi) water surface), located south of the main delta, the total area of the Danube Delta reaches 5,165 km2 (1,994 sq mi). The Razelm - Sinoe lagoon complex is geologically and ecologically related to the delta proper and their combined territory is part of the World Heritage Sites.

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Romanian gymnast Nadia Elena Comaneci instantly became a sporting icon when she earned the first perfect score in gymnastics. She made history at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, where she won a total of 3 gold medals. The judges’ computers were not programmed to display a perfect score—because it wasn’t assumed that anyone could achieve such a feat. But Nadia did, and her score was initially displayed as a “1.” Confusion turned into elation a few moments later, when the crowds realized she had actually been awarded the highest possible score, a “10.” For an encore, she went on to record 6 more perfect scores before the competition ended. She was 14 years old at the time.

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The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.

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Sweetbread – “Cozonac de casă”

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Salina Turda is a salt mine located in Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, second largest city in Cluj County, Romania. Since its opening in 1992, Salina Turda has been visited by about 2 million Romanian and foreign tourists.

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Bears’ Cave  is located in the western Apuseni Mountains, on the outskirts of Chiscau village, Bihor County, northwestern Romania. It has received its name after the 140 cave bear skeletons which were discovered on the site in 1983. The cave bear, also known as Ursus spelaeus, is a species of bear which became extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum, about 27,500 years ago.