hmm road trip day three we're just doing a quick pit stop to check out the fort
here in the Tiny Town of remede a remate the fort looks amazing with the mountain
backdrop Majestic now we're not sure what the weather today might be raining it looks
a little bit windy and our goal is to get to Alba Yulia no problem it's only like an hour
or an hour and a half away so we'll drive slow we'll find some coffee we'll find some
breakfast we will road trip with love in our hearts oh that road trip's so good all
right let's go uh jump in our fearless Fiat and make it to albayulia let's go foreign
Romania in search of a cup of coffee what do you think Ivana still confident by the way I'm
not in the mood for instant coffee I've grown to become a bit of a coffee snub I am not feeling
like instant coffee I want some freshly ground beans with foam for a latte let's see hello hello
good una all right Coffee Cafe
foreign
good
Mika good
we got a coffee machine guys we are in luck fantastic hear that that is the sound the
morning beginning okay the beans are being grinded multi mask fantastic
um I don't know what it means eat it
yeah good fantastic so it turns out uh in the small villages not so much coffee being
drinking but rather beer in the morning yeah like my friends uh my friends behind me a beer
right 7 am Breakfast of Champions all right Ivana give us coffee review did we hit or did we miss
pretty good pretty good good pretty good pretty good great success on the road trip
all right on the road again bye-bye bye-bye where's our friend ciao bye-bye thank you
okay bye-bye
absolutely five-star Morning Experience we got the coffee we got the keys I got
the keys and we're ready to rock okay that journey is just beginning very nice
look at this this machine is used I think to open the V8 no I think it's the drawbridge
oh drawbridge and I think underneath here is where the water water moat yes water moat wow
12 year old butt sick Fort dude yeah yeah we have only been at the gate we
just entered and we're impressed already anyway heck of a gate
so naturally the first place we came in Alba Yulia is this incredible Fortress now inside
there's school kids everywhere as well as shops and bars and places to buy beer and
food so the atmosphere is amazing but also the layout of the Fortress is incredible because it
seems like everything is radiating out from the center there's actually six Gates sped
around the outside and everywhere you walk in here there's something going on there's cars in
here I think people live here potentially maybe in the old days there's definitely
accommodations here now like hotels and stuff there's lots of events and evidently on December
1st this Fortress is the place to be because December 1st is Romania's national day where
the document was signed to unify Romania and the document was signed in this very
Fortress so all around Romania December 1st is a national holiday but in this particular
Fortress it's twice as special because this is a place the document was signed in
in 1918 after World War One when Transylvania was returned from austro-hungary to Romania so this
is released yes which is pretty special and I will say uh the rain was coming down a bit and
I'm so glad the rain stopped because from the sky this place looks amazing it seems it seems
to be right in the center of Abu Yulia so there's the rest of the city all around it and we're up
on the higher Plateau with this incredible shape that really is just oh my gosh beautiful practical
for defense purposes in history as well as uh useful nowadays because this place is awesome
wow so there's actually museums all around we're gonna and churches we're gonna skip the museums
today because the action is here we don't want to go indoors we want to be out here and soaking up
the sun this is the oldest Roman Catholic Church in the country built in 1009 1009 wow which is
pretty special and uh it's right beside a Orthodox Church yes so religious Harmony happening and uh
incredible history okay Ivana are you hungry yeah maybe let's eat something find something uh what
a place to be dude Alba Julia what a day we've had so far yeah I love it we just got here and
loving it loving it all right let's eat man
no it's not exactly clear to me when this wall would have been built certainly the Citadel we're
in now was built in the 1700s but it was built on top of an Old Fort that's much older than
that and like Ivana said that church is from the year 1009. so it's not clear to me exactly what
century this wall was built but when you see a medieval restaurant with the front door going
right through the Fortress wall wow uh you go there what do you think medieval restaurant I
think so medieval Fortress I think it's uh the right idea to eat in the medieval restaurant
check this restaurant out this is the exterior wall of the Fortress
the door goes right through hello and uh one of the most well done themed restaurants I've
ever seen so it feels like you're right in the Bellows of a fortress naturally and they've got
a huge bar over here and they've got all the walls decorated with night in shining armor
good job
we chose to go outside yo seriously nice design of a restaurant absolutely five stars
and now it's time for sampalenka did you get blinker no you got lemonade Ivan Ivana swears
Romania's got really good lemonade yeah the best lemonade in the world yeah they're weenie I got
it I was gonna say best blinker in the world of course that too it's a it's a bread bowl
do you eat the bread yes okay go ahead oh looking good look at this soup with a bread bowl
pretty good what did you get and for me naturally pork oh that looks good too it's
almost like a pork salad with uh asparagus and tomatoes that looks amazing as well
okay I think let's eat I think we're supposed to put the onion to the soup
how should I eat this
divided
dude you know what the soup soaks into the bread so you can just do this quite yummy
yeah yeah that's the word yeah I remember now um quiet enough good very good hmm foreign foreign
so after a good meal like that our plan was to go back to our accommodation and show you where
we are staying which we still will do but first things first we couldn't bring ourselves to leave
The Fortress here in Abu Yulia so on our road trip we do a lot of fortresses and old towns
the thing is a lot of the fortresses are like the one we saw this morning where they're on
the outskirts of town and they're a little bit dilapidated right still beautiful still
interesting but there's not much to do in the Fortress so what's great about Abu
Yulia is the Fortress seems to also be the Old Town because a fortress is massive it's
almost like a walled City yeah not a fortress exactly and so this uh in terms of Tourism is
very convenient because uh two stops for the price of one which let's call it what it is foreign
so here we have a gigantic statue of mihai
the brave who I think is one of the one of the big three in Romania you've got Stephen
the great hero of Moldavia you've got Matthias corvinis hero of Transylvania and you've got
mihai the brave who was seen as the unifier of Romania it's not a coincidence his statue is
here in the place where Romania was actually unified a good 320 years after he was around
wow but so many of our friends are named mihai in Romania I'm speaking their name after him I think
so so he's one of uh Romania's national heroes so I'm thinking maybe there's a Another Hero named
Catalina the super because most of our Romanian friends mihara Catalina yeah that's true the top
two names in top two names in Romania okay Ivana and I are gonna hang around here for a couple more
hours because this place is amazing and then we'll show you guys our accommodation which
I think is pretty nice we haven't seen it yet no we can go check in with the uh Folks at home yes
super all right checking into our apartment here oh now I totally just screwed up the
parking evidently there's Reserve parking so our spot is number 43.
but I've never heard of this in my life uh the reserve parking starts at 4 pm
so it's a it's a 4 P.M till the next morning Reserve parking uh
yes so there was a guy in our spot he left his phone number on his Dash so I
called him I said hey man you gotta move and he's like no I don't have to move until four
and I and I and I was like listen man you gotta move and then he very kindly explained it to me
he was an older fellow his English was not perfect but he did a good job saying call him and telling
me I was totally wrong and then in the end he moved anyway but anyway we made it uh after all
I was a little bit like hey man I got Airbnb and I paid for this spot you gotta move and he's like
no no no no no and he's like he's like I have an apartment here too this is my spot and I'm like
no is that your spot he's against my spot until 4pm I'm like what anyway we made it let's check
in and see uh our accommodation uh all apologies to the very kind men who explained to me that
I was being a tourist all right here's our apartment
check it out let's see what uh let's see what the lovely Ivana booked for us today
now I think these are old communist Arab buildings because all of the buildings down here are the
exact same shape and style and they look very similar and we are very lucky on the ground
floor because no elevators I would imagine the old four-story walk-up oh I love places like this you
did it Ivana compare a hotel room to this this is so nice because we got a desk we got a chair I've
got a lot of work to do yo are we the richest people in the whole yo this place is so nice
wowzers let me pull up my trousers this place is amazing Ivana living like a king
shout out to Alba Yulia Ivana and I have tons of work to do so it's only three o'clock now
but we are going to hunker down and get busy here at home good okay see you guys later uh shout out
to Albert Yulia best Fortress Old Town slash tourist attraction slash chilling spot slash
school trip for the kids slash medieval restaurant slash Museum drone scenery ever I love it