Hunedoara

Halloween party has been excellent nonetheless. It wasn't an Halloween party actually, just a nice night in a nice place with good music, where I got to meet some of Silvana's friends. By the way, difficult not to mention the humongous dinner we had in a Serbian restaurant. Whoa.

My mind was mostly set on the upcoming departure. According to several websites, going to Hunedoara from Timișoara and then to Sighișoara is just a big fuck you. Especially the first. Apparently you have to go to Deva, then hope to take one of the two buses that mercifully go there. Miss that, and you're fucked. Impaled, even. Easy thing, considering that buses from Timișoara don't seem overly frequent. So I just decided to change strategy, ran a quick BlaBlaCar check and found a ride. Some Gabriel dude, going to Bucharest and passing through Deva. We got in touch, set a time and bam! Problem solved. Both him and the other guy we picked up spoke excellent English, so the trip has been quick, cheap and pleasant.

Getting to Hunedoara from Deva was even easier. "Two buses per day" turned out to be Romanian for "every ten fucking minutes". Well, THANK YOU INTERNET. Anyway, I managed to get there in 20 minutes and... well, Castelul Corvinolor is just majestic.

Built in 1446 in Gothic-Renaissance style, as the hands of John Hunyadi of Hungary (over the site of an older fortification and on a rock above the small Zlaști River), the castle is a large and imposing building with tall and diversely coloured roofs, towers and myriad windows and balconies adorned with stone carvings. It's a Witcher III fan's wet dream.

Exploring it all takes around one hours and a half. Unfortunately, it seems that the leitmotiv of the trip is "against the sun", that while nicely fits the Transylvanian theme, also mean that most of the photo will suck. As with the Orthodox Cathedral in Timișoara, I always arrive at stupid hours, with the sun hanging behind my subjects. Damn sun! Never trusted the bastard anyway...