Our little village
in Northern Transylvania is called Breb; it's 500 meters
up in the Carpathian Mountains and it's very different.
It looks just like a village in one of Dracula's films. This might have something to do with the fact that Dracula's castle is a few hours drive away by car in the Borgo Pass.
Most people have a horse and cart in the village and everyone wears traditional cloths on Sunday, a lot of the older folk still wear every day what their ancestors wore and look fresh out of a fairy tale.
One of the many old fashioned distilleries in Breb
Above is a collection of picture I took in June 2010 in Maramures our county in the north of Transylvania.
We have over 20 hectares of land in Maramures now with in and around the village of Breb. We started building four Villa's here in the summer of 2009 and will be slowly getting them ready to rent in the same way as we do in Siwa Egypt. Casa Mic is now ready for renting. To see how the other are getting on have a look at the Villa section. To see the latest of what we have been getting up to in Romania, have a look at our Transylvanian travel log
Claudia dressing up 'Maramures' style.
We are building the villas now, its all good fun and totaly different to our lives in England