How (and when) to use a guidebook

People all over the world go to a lot of trouble to write guidebooks to help the rest of us with information on a location, hotels, restaurants and general information. However, guidebooks are also limited by several factors. First of all, what one person thinks is a ‘must stop’ might not be meaningful to you […]

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Sigisoara and Viscri

A day trip out from Brasov, we hired a private guide to go to Sigisoara with a stop in the historical town of Viscri. Viscri Viscri’s white fortified church was first mentioned in 1400 as Alba Eccelsia, ‘White Church.’ There was actually a church prior to the arrival of the Saxons between 1141 and 1162. […]

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