Friday, Sep 28: Cluj - Sibiu

In the morning we headed out to Sibiu (180km south), which is this year's cultural capital of Europe. We arrived around 14:00 and started to look for a hotel.

Sibiu was worse than Cluj in terms of finding a place to stay. We entered a Ramada hotel and they were booked too, of course, but they were kind enough to make a gazillion phone calls and ultimately they found us a place out of town a kilometer south of Rasinari (which itself is 15km south of Sibiu).

We spent the afternoon until the evening walking around the old center of Sibiu. When I say “old”, I mean old! Some houses were from as far back as the 14th century. The whole area was pretty large and was quite spacious and very nice. In fact, I’d go as far as saying that it was probably the nicest city area I’ve seen in Romania. Before leaving we headed up a clock tower and got some nice 360 degrees views of the city.

We then headed to the Pension, called “Mirani”, which was a little hard to find as it was located in a c pitch dark area. It was just built and run by a couple who used to live in Torrence, CA for a while (60miles south of LA). They were really nice people. The place was very nice and spacious.