Home >  New Travels >  The Caucasus > My Journal > Romania 3 Home The Gap Year New Travels Ask Simon Other Bits Contact Me The Caucasus - My Journal Hungary Romania Bulgaria Turkey Georgia (1) Armenia Georgia (2) Azerbaijan 1 2 3 4 5 Time Travel Through Eastern Europe 10th July - Sighisoara Sighisoara is famous in Romania, and it really is a beautiful town. It's actually a little surreal when you find it after walking through the modern new town near the train station. After walking up the small hill and passing through an ancient stone arch, the square, grey, anonymous buildings are quickly replaced by an eclectic array of medieval structures, clustered around a tiny piazza. Many of the small houses appear to have authentic medieval exteriors (but I think most of them have been redone), but the interiors have been converted into restaurants and shops to fuel the strong tourist tide that such a gem of a town draws throughout the year. Only the large, dominant churches scattered around town appear to serve the same purpose as they did hundreds of years ago. Wandering around the narrow, cobbled streets of Sighisoara, it really does feel like you have been plucked out of the 21st century and subtly repositioned a few hundred years back on the timeline. Apart from the handful of cars which are allowed into the town centre, Sighisoara has made few concessions to the onslaught of time and modernisation. Despite how amazing it is, Sighisoara is tiny, you could literally sketch it to scale on the back of an envelope. I'd comprehensively walked most of the streets in less than two hours. The rest of my day was spent sorting out a few odds and ends, like postcards and e-mails. Come dinner time, I also began to notice that Romanians have a real penchant for pizza. There are pizzerias everywhere! Strewn throughout the old town and scattered around the new town (which surrounds the hill where old Sighisoara rests). In fact, I struggled to find a restaurant that wasn't a pizzeria! So in the end, I had to succumb to having a popular, if not authentic, dish for dinner! I'm very excited about tomorrow as I'll be heading over to Brasov, my favourite Romanian town for reasons that will become clear... << Previous Diary Entry Next Diary Entry >> To know the road ahead, ask those coming back GoGap.com is created and owned by Simon Hooks. (mail@gogap.com).