We had another late start today; not good considering we have to wake early tomorrow for the 0643 train to Bucharest. In case we weren’t able to find a taxi tomorrow morning, we thought we’d check out the 11 minute walk to the station.
Once the station was in sight, we decided to continue by taxi to the Astra Museum about 5km out of town. Astra is the largest outdoor museum in Europe. It is an ethnographic museum which brings together over 300 homesteads and other agricultural and cottage-industry relics from all over Romania. They include sawmills, pottery kilns, grain mills, apple presses etc.
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- Around Astra Museum.
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- Around Astra Museum.
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- Around Astra Museum.
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- Around Astra Museum.
With bad weather approaching, we finished up about after 2h30 and requested a taxi to take us back to town. It would have been a 30 minute wait for the bus and there would be no shelter if the rain arrived.
It was cool and blustery as we made it back to our chosen lunch spot a couple of doors away from the hotel. Dabo Doner is a Turkish takeaway born in Germany. It certainly didn’t disappoint with it’s salad bowl and a sandwich in their own bread (not flatbread).
Looking into the countryside, it was obviously pouring but central Sibiu escaped the brunt of the storm with only some drizzle in the afternoon. Nevertheless, we stayed in until the evening.
For a change, we had a dinner from a diner called Super Mamma, where a selection of pre-cooked food was available. Our selection of crumbed fish, lasagne and vegetable hit the spot very well.
We ended the night with a film festival documentary in the square called Wild Romania. It showed off the beauty of the country very well in an Attenborough fashion. And the bears were just so loveable.