feels so bizarre in the middle of European summer to be surrounded by ice and freezing cold
good morning from the Apuseni mountains of Romania we spent yesterday driving here from TImosoara
with a quick stop off at Corvin castle took some pretty scary and thin roads that saw some of the
best scenery so that we could wake up here in a traditional Romanian house surrounded by these
gorgeous mountains we've got big plans for today going on two hikes through the mountains to find
some cool spots and finishing off with an ice glacier cave don't really know what it is but
apparently it's the second biggest in Europe so it should be good i'm really scared about bears
so Romania has one of the highest concentration of bears in Europe i don't know what to do if
we see one we don't have like bear spray or a knife or anything i'm hoping that the hikes we
go to are populated enough that it's not an issue but i think it's going to be on my mind all day
these roads are no joke they are like wide enough for one and a half cars
but there's two lanes of traffic and the Romanian drivers just go the regular speed
they'll overtake you no worries meanwhile we're like freaking out well
i'm freaking out at like the slightest turn or deviation hoofed
we may have found food on the road in this super super narrow
hilltop mountain forest and maybe food
this is amazing this is exactly what we wanted when we decided to do a Romanian road trip
thank you this place is like a dream i don't really know what they are they're kind of like
pancakes she didn't speak a lick of English we don't speak a lick of Romanian from what i
understand this is maybe like a savory flavor with cheese involved somehow and this one has berries
it's really good it's kind of more like a naan bread mmm
the cheese one's really good this is amazing all right [ __ ] look at the surrounding side we are
Creekside in the mountains completely surrounded by trees no idea what they were
but the berry one was definitely my favourite cause it's like jam-packed with jam and it just
tastes so fresh and delicious like she's made it this morning i think it's still like an
eight-minute drive to the top of the trailhead that we're hoping we'll be able to park and
hike from but it looks like there's heaps of people here as well it's such a nice day
it should be like a half hour hike to some cave area that's all we know about this but there's
heaps of people around here and all the towns that we pass by are so beautiful
we keep saying that it looks like Switzerland i love it
i'm still scared about bears and now i'm worried because i ate berries
and everyone knows the bears love berries so i smell like what they like
this place is incredible we got really into hiking about two or three years ago when Covid
first started by listening to the frugalwoods we used to go to the Onkaparinga gorge near our house
in the morning and have these beautiful walks with kangaroos hopping around that was so nice
and now ultimately doing that and living that lifestyle has led us to be here it feels so crazy
that we're living a dream that we used to talk about on those hikes oh my arm how do you do this
we might be going the wrong way
god it's so pretty
this is amazing they're literally in the middle of a Romanian forest
and there's a waterfall that sounds like downhill we never would have found this trailhead if it
wasn't for some people looking at the sign because they're camouflaged into the tree but nailed it
good job thanks
that wasn't even the first stop it's just a side track trying
to find this cave entrance but it's really hard to see or doesn't exist
oh my god oh and all these massive signs oh god been walking for a while now in this direction
wondering how did we miss the entrance to this hike that we came here for that's where we parked
this is the entrance we just missed and this is the most signed one as well
literally on the concrete there's a million signs on this tree we just didn't see it
we just looked up best places to see and best places to hike to from where we were
this was number two it's pretty cool how small do all those people look
such a big cave
this is crazy it's freezing cold in here
dark and cold but really cool now to cave number two
we've made it to the cave i have a feeling it's going to be similar to when we're at
Corvin castle like a lot of people here a lot of families but i guess we'll see
let's go
a lot of people on the way down have been talking to us in Romanian and saying how cold
it is going to be it's already freezing we're not even in there it's freezing and that's ice
i cannot believe there is snow right there Jordan's in shorts and a t-shirt and i'm in
a tank top look how crazy this is this is all ice we haven't walked that far down and
it's freezing cold and there's ice i feel so bizarre in the middle of European summer
to be surrounded by ice and freezing cold nature is nuts that's the second cave for today i think
we're gonna go get some food we saw a really cool restaurant it should only be like a five minute
walk from where we're staying yeah i think that's where we're gonna go it looks super local okay
so many stands hikes that go down to start with really lull you into
like a false sense of security now we got like 400 steps to go
what a day oh my goodness i'm so ready for something to eat yeah me too that drive home
unsurprisingly is as beautiful as all of the others have been walked two minutes up the
road to this super local restaurant i've got a chicken schnitzel with some mashed potato
Jordan got a sausage we didn't have the right amount of money we were like two dollars short
and she was like yeah it's okay that's really nice great first proper day of the Romanian road trip