It’s already day 6. I woke up at 6:30, because I couldn’t sleep anymore. My friend was once again snoring so loudly, I could hear him outside the hotel room. So I just gave up on sleeping and went outside to write this post. So, yesterday, on day 6 of our journey, we first headed over to Biertan. I am not exactly sure how we picked this city, but the town was much more rural than anything we have visited before. I actually quite liked it. Smaller villages are my thing and I prefer visiting them to cities. Sure, Tokyo, Bucharest, Paris were all nice cities – I ate good food, I saw a lot of attractions, I met new people, but I had the most fun while on the countryside or in smaller towns. People there felt warmer, more welcoming and I could take things easy. Biertan was just that – a peaceful little town with a church on top of the hill and everywhere I looked I could see a farm or two in the distance.
Thus, after we arrived, I treated myself to a morning breakfast – once again, pancakes. My friends on the other hand ordered some coffee. With a healthy dose of sugar, we then headed to The Fortified Church of Biertan. Interestingly, Biertan was also influenced by Germanic nations. The church was built by the ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community. Seems like the Saxons influenced a large part of of the country. Following the visit to the church, we took a stroll around the village. The village truly was a selo, as we like to call it. What we mean by this is a village that is rural. And this was it for sure. We saw multiple horse carriages (something I don’t see very often at home), cheap cars, a local village party, … I wanted to see more of this on our trip to Romania to be honest. I just really like this small, rural village ambience. We also saw a fair share of animals ranging from dogs, cats to chicken and goats.
Afterwards, we continued our day by going to a restaurant in a city not far from us – Medias. Being halfway scammed multiple times so far, we decided to find a cheap place for once. Eating outside the tourist spots seemed to be the answer to this problem. And choosing this town as our stop for food turned out to be a good decision. The food indeed was really cheap – pizzas going for as low as 4 EUR. And they were large pizzas – I couldn’t even finish mine. Additionally the waitress was so much nicer this time around. Even though she didn’t speak a speck of English, she took our order with ease and – this is something I haven’t seen so far – she even poured the drinks in glasses while serving them. We didn’t see this kind of quality service in the cities. The desserts were also excellent, though unfortunately they ran out of lava cake, so we ordered some kind of dumplings – they were both filling and tasted good. The addition of sour cream balanced the sweet taste of the dumplings and the marmalade.
In the afternoon, we headed towards our final destination – Sighisoara. Sighisoara is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is yet another town rich with history and was once again influenced by the Transylvanian Saxons who were invited to live here by the King of Hungary, Geza II around the 12th century. Here we decided to visit the Sighisoara fortress. Inside the fortress there were multiple things – The Sighisoara Clock Tower, The Vlad Dracul House, Piata Cetatii and much more. There was a lot to see, so we took our time exploring this area of the city. The views from the top were great so I snapped a couple of pictures. We ended the day by going to a local restaurant, where I ordered a meal and my friend a dessert.
