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Romania 2018 - Comarnic Visit

Today was intended for a visit to the church in the cave at Pestera, but as we approached the junction, the left turn had a barrier across it, “road under construction” so that was that. We’d had a nice run up to then, seeing the views and so forth...

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So we decided to take the right turn and go up as far as we could to the end of the asphalt and the “no motor vehicles beyond this point” sign, and walk to the standing stones, called “Babele”. It was a tidy walk, some 4 km at a guess, and all uphill, but it was a nice day for it...

After returning to the the trucks, I suggested that we could get to our original destination by a long detour, so we set off on a 25 km or so trip down to Moroieni, and there starts a long forest track that would take us to a junction about 1/2 km from the “road closed” barrier!

We then dropped down to the base of the dam at the end of the reservoir “Bolboc” and then we took one of my favorite detours up to a disused quarry which is a high-point and an excellent viewing platform.

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By this time it was 7:30pm or so and we were starving. So up with the table and the BBQ was lit.

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By the time we’d cooked chicken skewers and jacket tatties, and eaten them, it was dark, so we set off for the 2 hour drive home, a good excuse for having all our lights blazing to floodlight the way ahead.

A good day, despite the inconvenient roadworks...
 
Another good day, and sadly the last one of the visit, Josh and Georgia are planning to be away by 9:30am tomorrow, it will be sad to see them leave.

We did the forest road trip today, from Secaria (the village behind where we live) over the top and down into the next valley (valea Doftanei). On this road the asphalt turns into a dusty stone track and enters into the forest. It’s a nice run of about 60 km “Offroad” with a mixture of stone, mud, soil tracks. All reasonably easy and safe, but fun nonetheless.

The customary BBQ by the stream...

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Then after food we ventured to Poiana Braşov where I think Josh will have some photos to post on his thread...

We then dropped down to Rasnov and visited the gorge on the way home. From that track, there’s some very photogenic views, especially when you can get a couple of dusty ‘Cruisers in shot...

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The gorge...

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I’ve tried not to crib any of Josh’s photos, but they’re a bit mixed on my iPad at present, so apologies to Josh if I’ve tangled some of his into this post... 3CD0A2E7-74A6-4EB1-9C77-0AFC4220D58D.jpeg
 
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