Welcome to Magical Romania!

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We offer you a fantastic opportunity to explore new travel frontiers! We provide accommodation, in Brasov & Bucharest in Romania, & plans to expand that around Romania in the medium term.

Romania is the closest you can get to South America without leaving Europe! It’s a fascinating mix of cultures, predominantly Latin, with lifestyles ranging from the super-rich to 17th century style farm-worker existences, seemingly unaffected by modern culture or twentieth century influences. There are few places where you can witness former Communist regimes so intact, but melting away fast as east meets west in this seemingly thresh-hold Country that is Romania.

Whether you want a summer holiday, skiing holiday, mountain walking, city break, or even have a fantastically rewarding working holiday in one of the many orphanages, Romania has absolutely everything you could wish for. For instance a group recently went out in a 13-strong team of volunteers to rebuild an orphanage in Sept 05, & again in Apr 06)

One thing is certain. It will never be what you could have imagined it to be, & will always surpass expectations. It is also not a place you can only visit once, & that is not just a cliché, it’s a fact, & one that anyone who has ever visited the country in recent years will tell you. Romania offers a very rare insight into a communist culture that suffered suppression equalled only in the darkest corners of China. Example, power & heat was supplied at specified short-slot times, & only to specified buildings, not on demand as we are so used to. Privately owned cars with certain number plates could only drive on Saturday, & others on Sunday, never during the week! Householders with cars were allowed 2 fuel containers per year! Food was rationed, family size was engineered (through allowances & food supply penalties), & as one Romania recently told me, basically, most things were banned/ forbidden, unless you were told otherwise. Despite all this, you will be greeted by a highly intelligent race of people, with more stories, history & background that you could ever comprehend – you feel like a kid listening to your grandfather telling you of a great adventure, when you listen to the average adult’s life experience - & if for no other reason, that is an excellent justification for a visit.

This is a typical experience of a UK traveller to Brasov: “I recall looking at a picture of a Romanian 2nd birthday party, with a few infant girls in it & a tiered-birthday cake. On first impressions, it looked like a pretty ordinary birthday party. I was then told by my Romanian friend who featured in that photo, & now in her late 20’s, that the cake in fact, simply card-board tubes & covered in icing, as supplies were too scarce to have a real cake!”

Romania cannot be overstated as a most unassuming, but incredible place in Europe, as yet, not destroyed by the ever-marching machine of western progress. The same will not be true in 10 years, or even 5.