Day 13 of 19 – City tour of Brasov

On By sharron1964In The Balkans

So today we’ll see the black church and the narrowest Street at four foot wide and other things I’m sure. Then we have free time. This area is the habitat of the brown bear, linx and boar. It’s a ski resort too, apparently. We can go up the tampa mountain. It’s an hour to walk or we can go by cable car😱. Back later with photos!

This sports pitch was once a lake for drowning witches in. As we all know if you drowned you weren’t a witch and if you survived you were a witch so they executed you anyway! 🤦🏻‍♀️
Oldest medieval gateway to the Old town. It has four turrets. Four turrets signified to foreigners that if you misbehaved in Brasov they had the right to execute you!
A later model gateway to the old town
The coat of arms for Brasov
Map of the medieval town

The black church

So the black church isn’t as black as I thought it was going to be. It got its name after a fire caused the roof to collapse. It is called the Virgin Mary Church. I learned that the altar in a church is always to the East and the bell tower to the West. It had 6 bells originally but now only 3 as they melted down the other 3 to make canons
Priest’s house
Entrance to the church for the priest

The old town. Very colourful

Irish coffee. It was a little cold on the tour. The sun has started to come out now

We then went on a bear hunt! behind the Brasov (pronounced by the guide as Bras of) sign! On this!

The old town square from up tampa mountain
The black church from upt there too
Commonwealth jacket doth travel🤣
White tower

Rope Street which is four foot wide. Made between terraced streets so that firemen could get quickly between houses if there’s a fire! Wouldn’t we call this an alleyway! 🙄🤣

Lunch!

So after lunch the sun came out and it ended up a very pleasant day. We went around the town walls and ended up the white tower, plus steep steps and then the black tower and then took in the atmosphere in the old square and orchestra ☺️

Steep steps up to the white tower
The black church from another angle!
Cable car in the distance
From the black tower
Black tower if you ignore the graffiti 🙄. Both towers were observation towers on the town wall
Another wedding
With the lovely blue sky behind

Sooo to finish the day…. I’ve been a bit quiet with the NO CHEESE and cheese shenanigans mainly because we’ve had buffet until last night and tonight. So! Last night the NO CHEESE members of the group were served first and they had the same meat as the rest except they had rice and we had mashed potato. The sumption was that our mash was made with cheese! Logical huh. So tonight’s main meal was fine for all concerned. Our dessert was served and again the no cheese members of the group had theirs first which was the same as ours minus ice cream!🤷🏻‍♀️. When Tracey (no cheese) asked where their ice cream was they were told it contained milk so they didn’t have any🤦🏻‍♀️. So going back to the mash potato last night I assume it wasn’t made with cheese in it but milk and they thought that as cheese is made with milk that they couldn’t have milk! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

Off to Sighisoara tomorrow birth place of Vlad the Impaler apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️

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