October 2025. Sighișoara. Romania.
In the Uber on the way back from the bear cuddling Mrs RM devised a radical plan to boost her blog views.
Leaving our room in Brasov for a night we caught a Flix bus from the main bus station, where the coffee,
costs as much as the loo, which has a certain symmetry about it.
Two hours on a Flix gets you to the industrial edge of Sighișoara,
which with its Orthodox almost-cathedral is interesting enough,
but it’s the UNESCO listed Citadel you come for.
It’s steep, but it’s the cobbles that kill you on the way to Vlad Drac’s Candy Fort (honest),
and this astonishingly beautiful Old Town (best since San Marino) is surprisingly quiet as the Drac-hunting day-trippers leave, even allowing it’s a wet Tuesday night in October.
We walked the bounds in about 20 minutes, even with stops to admire towers,
and a few magical looking hotels.
And then wondered what to do with ourselves in a town with out pubs.
The answer, as so often would be beer, cats, and peanuts…
retiredmartin 
Sighișoara looks fantastic, and presumably knock the socks off “A rainy night in Georgia” a song I’d always attributed to Gladys Knight & the Pips! Spoiler alert, in what was probably her best known number, Gladys sang about that “Midnight train to Georgia!” Oops!
PS, Jane McDonald, on one of her travel programmes was complaining about the cobbles, on the route up to Vlad’s castle.
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Even I was complaining about the cobbles, Paul !
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I had Gladys Knight and the Pips down for Rainy Night in Georgia too. It was Brook Benton who did the original and Randy Crawford had a hit with a cover version.
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Let us not forget “Please Don’t Play A Rainy Night in Georgia” by (Scottish?) indie songstresses, Twa Toots.
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That takes me back to John Peel playing that when the Peel Sessions were released in ’86 !
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Twa Toots (Paul Bailey is a big fan I hear) were from the Isle of Sheppey, so not far from Scotland.
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“A rainy night in Sighișoara”
You spelled Georgia wrong.
“Sighișoara. Romania.”
In the pic below, it says ‘historic centre of Sighișoara’. Is that a fancy way of saying ‘old town’?
“where the coffee, costs as much as the loo, which has a certain symmetry about it.”
Indeed. A slightly different take on ‘what goes up, must come down’; in this case, ‘what goes in, must come out’.
“Two hours on a Flix gets you to the industrial edge of Sighișoara,”
In the pic below, that clock on the side of that tall building has too many hands.
“It’s steep, but it’s the cobbles that kill you on the way to Vlad Drac’s Candy Fort (honest),”
Blimey! And when they’re wet, they’ll be twice as deadly.
“and this astonishingly beautiful Old Town”
Aha! Called it above; old town indeed. 😎
” is surprisingly quiet as the Drac-hunting day-trippers leave”
Smart move. Drac is supposed to sleep during the day and come out at night.
“The answer, as so often would be beer, cats, and peanuts…”
Hopefully the ‘cats’ comment is a nod to the kind of curry you were seeking out.
(or maybe a Chinese restaurant?)
Cheers
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A very fancy way of saying Old Town, perhaps, but it’s also called Citadel which confused us more till we realised it meant the walled city and was the same.
Romania has a poor Chinese takeaway game 😉
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Heh, totally get it with regards to Citadel. Istanbul has a wall around the whole area of the Blue Mosque / Hagia Sophia area.
As for the Chinese takeaway; that’s probably because the Chinese have all been taken away. 😁
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