Our little village
in Transylvania is called Pestera, it's 1200 meters
up in the Carpathian Mountains and it's very different.
It looks just like one of the villages near Dracula’s
castle in the films. Maybe that’s because… it is.
Our land backs on to the Piatra
Craiului national park.
Somewhere different Transylvania is
between Piatra Craiului and Dracula's caste (house
image marks the spot)
The slopes on the land will be good
for snow boarding and sledging in the winter and roly
poly's in the summer.
The cozy fire in the winter lodge, horse drawn slay
rides along with snow boarding, skiing and general
looning out the back door down your own private 250m
run in the winter is the plan. Hiking down an 800m
deep gorge in the Piatra Craiului national park that
starts where our land ends; bear watching at the ‘Large
Carnivore Centre’ in Zarnesti, the next village along
and lazy days spent roly polying down the steep grassy
slopes is how we see the hot summer days spent here.
A full moon in Pestera
We have 6 acres of land in rolling hills set amongst
hill farmers that have not changed their ways for
generations. The clinking of cowbells and not a car
in site takes your mind back to a forgotten time.
The view from where the house will be built is stunning
with the village spread out in the foreground and
the whole Bucegi Mountain range in the distance.
The view from where the house will
be...
with the Bucegi Mountains in the
distance,
If living the rural life here gets too much… it's
a twenty 20 minute drive to a tacky nightclub and
several good restaurants in the touristy town of Bran,
home to… Count Dracula’s Castle.
The 'real' Dracula's castle at Bran
Our villa in Transylvania will be made in the traditional
white mortor, black beamed structural way, if we’re
lucky it should be open by the end of 2007.The villa
will sleep 10 adults comfortably. The high season
will be the week over Christmas and will cost £2000
( that includes the one horse open sleigh ride. All
other weeks will be £1000 and in the summer out of
term time will be £1,500. If you have the time, have
a look at Angus's picture
diary he made when we were last there |
