Moldavia
We started off in the north of the country in the Moldavia region. After a brief stroll down the main, mostly pedestrianised, avenue of Iasi, we were whisked off to stay in a charming wooden house in Sucevita, but not before visiting a large winery (not heard of Romanian wine? – sorry, but I stuck to beer for the rest of the trip!) and the remains of a fortress in Suceava (a bit underwhelming). The following day we had the first of our three gentle hikes in the Carpathians, along the Via Hutulca. The highly decorated Voronet monastery and the enclosed Agapia Monastery in a nuns’ village were unusual and very photogenic. Chuck in the Popa House (Peasant’s Museum) and a demonstration of traditional egg-painting (yes we bought one)to round off a very eclectic set of sites in this Northern region of Romania.
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