I didn’t have the opportunity to travel abroad. A short way up to Bulgaria and so, that was it for me. For some time my fantasies in terms of travel and foreign lands go thinking about Ireland. Ireland which has an unsurpassed beautiful scenery, mountains on one side and the ocean on the other. If you google serch  images of Ireland you find  beautiful landscapes, buildings in rustic style, endless pastures. And suddenly I realized that, although Ireland is so far, I can enjoy such landscapes even here in Romania. What do the Irish have in addition to us? Perhaps that they take better care of their country. That and the ocean, but  surpassing this, we have about the same forms of relief. Moreover, we even have a delta.
The road took me in many places, nevertheless I did not visit all the sights in Romania. Places that have high potential, but some of them aren’t  “exploited” to the maximum as they should be. Take the example of Sighisoara. Once, jewel of Transylvania, now the old town, medieval city, is left in ruin , houses are not restored, the accommodation conditions are poor. However, Medieval Festival is held every year in Sighisoara.
I have been trough Zlatna, through Rosia Montana on the road to the careers in Sohodol of the Apuseni Mountains. I have to say that these mountines have no connection with the Prahova Valley. Once on that road there you feel that you are transported to another world as if you left the country and that you are in a place where there are beautiful landscape that leave you almost speechless. Zlatna is a red city. Zlatna’s  name comes from the slavic word “zoloto” meaning gold. In Zlatna there were numerous sterile halls that now lie in fallow and red soil on which nothing grows around the area affected. Zlatna seems a city from Mars, a ghost town.
assume that everyone has heard about Rosia Montana. What you probably you do not know is that at the exit of the Rosia Montana there is a banner (or at least it  was four years ago) which reads as “may you have a good life and journey”. Although poverty has reached record levels in these localities, people are very friendly in these places.
Beautiful landscapes and tourist attractions are also found in Cincis, a town between Deva and Hunedoara, where I was able to be accommodated for three days in a cottage above the lake Cincis.Maybe you did not know, but on the location where the lake is now, there was a village before. The village was deserted and thus was created Lake Cincis. On days when the lake dries up, you can see the church steeple where it former sat.I didn’t manage to visit Oas County and I hope my trip takes me thre, especially I would like to see the Merry Cemetery, where every tombstone is colored, and the epitaph  has nothing sad written.Dobrogea and the Danube Delta allso offer a spectacular scenary.
All these places are worth visiting for  they bring something unique and unprecedented. No landscape is the same. And then I think, what do Irish have on us? Maybe common sense. Maybe a little more nationalism and concern for their values.
How many of us know the history of the country? And I don’t mean hard to remember dates or the names of all the personalities, but only thosewho are realy of importance.How many were curious to discover the history of a visited place. In other countries the focus is on this and if a place charged with history the more it increases its tourist attraction. Maybe if we would develop a bit of “patriotism”, maybe if wewould get to know the country better, maybe if  we realise that there are things to see here before going abroad, places full of history and landscapes that are breathtaking, smaybe then we can make it count for our country. And also for us.

Photo – Church from the Cincis Lake