Little Places – Scarisoara Ice Cave, Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Last Sunday I featured a post on Romania. I very briefly touched on an ‘ice cave’ that I had visited, but to be honest with my diaries long gone, I needed to do a bit of research to even find the name of the said cave. Well, now I have found it! The Scarisoara Ice …

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Sunday Spotlight – Cluj Napoca

Today the spotlight is back and it’s shining Romania-way to a university town in the westish northish part of a country that has most of its international reputation built on the back of a dude who inspired the legend of Dracula and vampires and fast forward a few centuries and we have the awesome TV …

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A Day at Fujisan (Part Two)

After the excitement of crawling through a tunnel created by lava, we headed around to the Sakik Iyashi no sato NENBA, as the brochure says. In Englished, it calls the place the ‘Thatch Roof Village’. Today it is a basically an open-air museum costing around 1000 yen to enter. You can go from thatched house …

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