Eastern European Castles
Last year I spent 3 months travelling in Eastern Europe. I like castles, so I had the chance to visit some interesting castles. An online magazine published my article about some of the castles in Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Albania and Montenegro. http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2010/06/eastern-europes-hidden-castles/ Related Articles: Rila Monastery Romania Moldova Ukraine Please support my blog by clicking [...]
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After Romania, I visited Bulgaria. I stayed in Sofia and did a day trip to Rila Monastery. It’s an old church and is a world heritage site. The monastery is really beautiful. Related Articles: Rila Monastery Romania Moldova Ukraine Please support my blog by clicking this blog site ranking list.
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »Romania
After Moldova, I took the bus to Suceava in the north of Romania. The northeast of Romania is known as Moldavia and is still a rural area where you can see lots of horses and buggies on the road. The area is also home to painted monasteries that have beautiful frescos. Then I travelled to [...]
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I ate pizza in a country that doesn’t exist. After Ukraine I visited Moldova. There’s not a lot to see inside the main part of Moldova, but there is Transnistria. Transnistria is a self-proclaimed independent republic. There was a civil war in Moldova in 1992 and more than 500 people were killed. Transnistria has its [...]
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I only stayed a couple of days in Belarus and then took a night train to Kiev in Ukraine. (Where are all these countries? Here’s a map) Kiev has a lot of nice churches, but I found it a difficult city to navigate and not a particularly friendly city. Ukraine and Belarus bore the brunt [...]
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