May 28 – June 4, 2022 (Spring) We barely spent a week in Bucharest to line up a flight, but returning after so many years felt like catching up with an old friend. Or maybe an acquaintance? We’re not the first ones to say that the best sides of Romania…
April 30 – May 28, 2022 (Spring) As the Romanian spring grew warmer, we decided to head up to the heart of the Carpathian Mountains and beautiful Brașov. Like Porto, it has a touristic reputation that belies a very homey and welcoming vibe. We were charmed immediately, and with daily…
April 2 – 30, 2022 (Spring) After a month in Ireland we still needed two more outside Schengen, so we returned to our old friend Romania. With many of the country’s larger cities under our belt – Bucharest, Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Iași – we decided it was time to savor spring…
June 28 – July 26, 2019 (Summer) Our big question after Cluj was whether we should go east, or west? Serbia and Croatia were tempting targets, but the convoluted connections were a drawback. Instead, we settled on a simpler journey through eastern Romania toward Moldova and Ukraine. Iași (pronounced ‘yash’)…
May 31 – June 28, 2019 (Summer) Romania is becoming something of a default choice for us. Low cost of living, good quality of life, easy to get to and around, and (as of 2019) still outside the Schengen Area. Cluj-Napoca is arguably its most international city outside the capital…
August 16 – September 13, 2017 (End of summer) Once again out of Schengen time, we decided to revisit Romania to kick off a grand tour of the Balkans. Timisoara had everything we were looking for: low cost of living, high quality of life, and way fewer people than Bucharest.…
May 26 – June 23, 2016 (Early summer) The capital of Romania is perhaps the most populous “hidden gem” in Europe. Bucharest exists on a grander scale than we imagined: massive neoclassical facades and wide boulevards reminded us of Paris, though the brutalist remnants of Ceaușescu’s communist regime are quick…
We are Kevin and Danielle (and Kieran) Tarchenski, a family of introverts that travel the world. Why? To save money, have fun, maybe learn a thing or two. We love to work from the road and write about our adventures. Most of all, we enjoy living simply: peaceful walks, homecooked meals, quiet nights in – wherever we make our home this month.
