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Curtea de Argeș

iPadNomads — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:22:17 +0000

We first discovered Curtea de Argeș when we were reading through our guidebook, deciding where we should stop in Romania. There was just the tiniest little blurb about Curtea there, and it just seemed like few other tourists went there, but that it would be pretty, quaint, and unspoiled.

And for the most part, [...]

An Afternoon in the ASTRA Open Air Museum

iPadNomads — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:15:17 +0000

The ASTRA Open Air Museum was certainly impressive. It is the largest open-air museum in Romania, and one of the largest in Eastern and Central Europe. There has been a museum/ethnographic display in that spot, a bus-ride away from Sibiu since 1905. The grounds boast 2 artificial lakes surrounded by more than 10km of hiking [...]

One Day in Sibiu

iPadNomads — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:42:46 +0000

Sibiu, a city in Transylvannia, Romania, was named as a European Capital of Culture for 2007. Because of how picturesque it is, and how active the city is culturally, it has had a lot of positive press lately, and is a well-marked stop on the tourist trail in Romania. We figured it would be a [...]

Timişoara: The Gateway to Romania

iPadNomads — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:08:06 +0000

Having taken a bus from Belgrade and then transferred to a train at the border of Romania, our trip to Timişoara was fairly uneventful, except a few brief moments of tension just after we boarded the train. You see, there was a little old lady across the aisle from us who scurried over to us [...]

Saint Sava, Forever Under Construction…

iPadNomads — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:27:13 +0000

In front of the Cathedral of Saint Sava

The Cathedral of Saint Sava is the biggest Eastern Orthodox church in the world. Since the cathedral is perched atop one of the highest points in Belgrade, we were intrigued by its dominance and beauty from the time we arrived in the city. It was a [...]

An Afternoon Around Belgrade

iPadNomads — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:00:34 +0000

As you probably read in our last blog post, we paused mid-afternoon for a traditional Serbian lunch, taking some much-needed time to recharge, before heading out on the city again.

For the most-part, we retraced our steps from the walking tour we had done earlier in the day, so we’d get a chance to [...]

Getting Settled in Belgrade

iPadNomads — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:44:23 +0000

So as we mentioned before, Serbia was an after-thought in our travel planning. It was mid-June, and we hadn’t really planned to include it at all on this trip, but then our plans changed, and we thought, why not head towards Romania by travelling through Serbia instead of continuing through Bulgaria? So we did! After [...]

The $140 Brussel Sprout

iPadNomads — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:57:27 +0000

If you really want to start at the beginning of the story, it all started with my parents, the Clemens’, probably more than 20 years ago, who wanted to get us away from the consumer-mentality so often attached to Christmas. They wanted us to spend the day together, thankful for God’s gift of Jesus, thankful [...]

Merry Christmas!

iPadNomads — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:59:09 +0000

Our mini Christmas tree; not big enough for all of our new ornaments from our world trip.

A year ago at this time, we had just booked our tickets for our world trip and were working on our preparations for our trip. It’s hard to believe how fast a year has gone by. For [...]

What to Do When There’s Nothing to Do

iPadNomads — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:56:52 +0000

So, as you saw in our last post on Niš, we chose the wrong days to see the tourist sights in the city of Niš, because they were closed early on the Sunday when we arrived, and completely closed on the Monday as well. That kind of thing happens from time to time: you end [...]