Another pair of earrings that was damaged was my Remembrance/Veterans Day pair.  We found these on Etsy and they came all the way from R...

Our last trip to Iasi was in April.   We had Chinese, of course!  Mine's the one with the soup.

It was a holiday in April - right at Easter - so we went to Iasi for the day.  No overnight, just driving there and back.  So we ate lun...

As usual on our way from Romania, we stopped in Birlad for pizza when driving back from Sighisoara.  The pizza and service were as good ...

  We finally made it to Sighisoara last month, and it might have been the cold weather or just the size, but we didn't find much to d...

Okay, so I am weird.  I have coveted a crepe turner for years.  This December, I bought this nice wooden one at the Cluj Christmas mar...

The people of Cluj publish a newspaper on National Day showing the return of the royals to Bucharest on the first National Day in 1918.  ...

Pizza 4 Amici is in the basement of a building on Blvd. Eroilor, and they make good mulled wine!  Their food is also very good.  I had th...

We saw these shallow bowls hanging on the wall in MolDeco when we were getting some framing done.  I fell in love with some of them, esp...

Cluj's Iulius Mall had this huge Christmas display.  It's two stories tall and seems to be of a Christmas tree with dwarves, but ...

  So, it wasn't our beloved Oliva Pizza in Chisinau, and the service was much, much worse.  This is a hipster, snobbish coffee shop i...

The lights in Cluj were quite pretty despite the rain.  The tentlike lights were over the central square of the Christmas market.

In Cluj, we had dinner in a place where we got out of the rain.  It was La Ardealul, named after the forest.  During this meal, we learne...

On a cold, wet, rainy day, we found Joban Bistro.  It was the reason we had decided to stop in Cluj.  The place is a steampunk bar, and i...