A very short entry for day 28 as not much of a day for me, mainly as it was started at a pointless castle. Yes it was quaint, yes it had a good back-drop and yes it was supposed to be Draculas castle. The castle in Bran was pretty much a tollgate for goods in and out of the Romanian province. Vlad the Impaler stayed one day in the palace, dracula never existed this we know, and Bram Stoker the author of Dracula never in his life visited Eastern Europe let alone this castle. His story is based on getting a library book out on Moldovan history, so the connection to this castle and dracula is the thinnest of thinny things. We eventually caught the bus to Brasov then the train to Bucharest. On finding our hostel we had a hike round the city, got slightly lost, got ripped off by a taxi, found an Irish Bar, I found guinness and Sarah Margherita, yes an ok evening in hot Bucharest.
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