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...........ooOOoo........... | Holding the VT flag at Cabo da Roca, Portugal |
LAST UPDATE: June 5th
Back from Portugal, 5th European VT meeting. Fabulous! Met members, felt in love with Portugal. Perfect organization from out hosts: Antonio, Teresa and Paulo, many thanks guys! :)
EARLIER NEWS this year (2009):
Mar '09 - Skiing in Kitzbuhel, Austria and on the way stopped for the 2nd time in Prague
Jan '09 - Back from the New Years Eve in Kaprun, Austria
PREVIOUS UPDATES AND NEWS
Aug '08 - Back from another vacation in Sankt Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee in Austria (one of my favorite places) and the beautiful lakes: Traunsee, Attersee, biking around Wolfgangsee, taking the cogwheel train to the 360 degrees panorama.
Jun '08 - 2000km trip on Loire Valley and on the coast of Normandy and Brittany -> 2 days in Paris, then: Orleans - Beaugency - Ch.Chambord - Ch.Blois - Ch.Cheverny - Amboise - Ch.Chenonceaux - Tours - Villandry - Ch.Azay le Rideau - Ch.Usse - Chinon - Angers - Ch.Serrant - Nantes - Rennes - Mont St-Michel - St.Malo - Cancale - Rennes - Rouen - Brugges - Lille.
May 5th, 2008 - Back from my first trip to London .. great city .. my page is ready, you can check it ;)
Jan 4th, 2008 - Back from a great NYE and skiing holidays in Zell am See, Austria.
Sept 22nd, 2007 - Back from France, where I visited: Nice, Cap Ferrat, Eze Village, Monaco, Cannes, Frejus, Grasse, Castellane, Canyon du Verdon, Manosque, Apt, Aix-en-Provence, Nimes, Aven D'Orgnac, Gorges D'Ardeche, Avignon, Arles, Hyeres, St. Tropez.
Aug 20th, 2007 - Back from Austria - Salzamergut region. I have stayed in St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee. I've been to Gossau to check out the green lake and the view of the Dachstein Glacier, to Hallstatt - the pearl of the lakes, to Postdalm (hiking region), to Schafbergspitze (1783m with a 360 degree panorama of the lakes and mountains), Salzburg (crowded with tourists) and Vienna.
June 27th, 2007 - I'm back from Barcelona, lovely city, nice people. Didn't meet any VTers though :)
Jan 1st, 2007 - I have started my Rothenburg ob der Tauber page - this is one of the most romantic city in Europe
Dec 2nd, 2006 - Back from Austria, more exactly I was visiting Vienna for the third time - during Christmas time. Took some photos, a lot in the zoo :).
Aug 20th, 2006 - My Florence page is done. You can go check it out. Hope to make the top10 :)
July '06 - I am back from Italy!! I have made indeed like 70% of the plan below, this mainly because the major heat - over 36 degrees, which made me decide to skip some city visit and one day in Sorrento to avoid sun burns and other problems.
May-June '06 ITALY. Time to get back to 'the boot' and discover the regions and their charming cities. Looking out for gems, smaller interesting places rather than the big cities like Milano or Napoli, my travel plans looks, like this: Venice - Verona - Riva del Garda - Malcesine - Brenzone - Bardolino - Sirmione - Bergamo - Bellagio - Moneglia - Cinque Terre - Pisa - Lucca - Prato - Florence - San Gimignano - Sienna - Montepulciano - Todi - Spoleto - Sorrento - Capri - Pompeii - Herculaneum - Assisi - Gubbio - Castelnouvo - San Marino - Padova.
2005, December 17-24 - Tux, Austria. A really wonderful winter resort with lots (more than 220km) ski routes, and great cable transport. |
| Pottery craftsman in Marginea |
March 2005 - My second visit to Vienna. A few adventures with accommodation in Kleinzell, but after all we met a nice austrian family and their lovely guesthouse. So we've stayed in Kleinzell (some 100 km from Vienna), but we managed to get up early and have two full days in Vienna. Also we've seen the benedictine monastery in Melk, the shoping complex in St.Polten and the Shopping City Sud (biggest of it's kind in Europe). I still haven't found time to update my Vienna pages with impressions and pics from this trip, but soon.
15-17 January 2005 - Skiing in Poiana Brasov
26-28 August 2004 - Visiting the monasteries in Bucovina and Moldova (Romania)
Departing Bucharest on Friday the 26th of August, I drove to Piatra Neamt, where we found the beautiful pension Ambiance. Same day we headed for Bucovina and visited the monasteries of Voronet, Sucevita, Moldovita and Putna. On the way we stopped at the Bicaz Dam, the lake Izvorul Muntelui and then the wonderful Bicaz Gorges and the original Red Lake.
Next day we entered Targu Neamt in order to visit Neamtului Fortress and the Neamt monastery. On the way we stopped to see Vanatori-Neamt Natural Park with its rare bison colony. Then we turned back and visited the nice monastery Agapia which is painted by the great romanian painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
In the area there are many other places to visit, like Marginea village with its famous black ceramics (see the picture inside one workshop), more monasteries, memorial houses that we left to visit for the next time :) The landscapes in this region are really wonderful!! Enjoy the pages!!
During the weekend of 21-22 August 2004 I went with a couple of friends in Ardeal - one of the nicest part of the country (north-west, Apuseni Mountains) and visited two caves (Poiana lui Ionele and Scarisoara), plus the 13th century fortress city of Calnic and on our way back stopped again in the beautiful Sibiu.
More pictures in this travelogue
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| Rental car from Paris - a brand new VW Bora |
|  | Driving from Paris to .. Paris :) My trip in June 2004 trip took me to four countries: France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. The itinerary below will give you an outline of where we were and when. For further details, see the page for each town.
7-10 June: Paris
11 June: Bruxelles
12 June: Brugge
13 June: Oostende - KnokkeHeist - Butterfly Park - Het Zwin Reservation - Brugge
14 June: Delta Expo (entering Holland) - short stroll in The Hague and in Scheveningen
15 June: Amsterdam
16 June: Amsterdam
17 June: SixFlags and then Cologne
18 June: Rhine Valley - Koblenz
19 June: Frankfurt
20 June: Strasbourg
I AM TRYING TO ADD THE TIPS & PICS FOR MY LATEST TRAVELS AND ALSO REVIEW
EXISTING CONTENT, TRYING TO MAKE THE PAGES BETTER. THANKS FOR HELPING ME CORRECT SOME MISTAKES OR ADD SOME DETAILS ABOUT PLACES I'VE CAPTURED ON FILM AND DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
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| Visiting Truva (trojan) fortress in Turkey in 2000 |
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Short introduction of myself and VTAs you maybe know, there aren't many Romanian made pages here on VT, but some Romanians caught this virus (which I caught back in 2000), like my friend Fam_Stoica, or Diana75, or Romanian_Bat, or josephescu, and a couple more that forgives me not to mention their names (I buy a beer at the next VT meeting) :)
You can watch a bit of Romania trough my pictures and also tips, facts and pictures from places I've been. I love to take pictures, it's my main hobby, I do it for nearly 20 years now :)
I did not have the chance to travel outside Europe but I promise I'll do so and gather some nice photos to share with you on VirtualTourist. Because this is the meaning of this site, sharing memories and travel advices along you good people of the entire World.
You are very welcomed enter and enjoy my pages. Thank you for giving me feedback, comments and tip ratings :)) |
I guess most of you folks are interested also to know more about my country - Romania. I have to admit that I was tempted to fill in more pages about the foreign destinations that I have seen rather than building some good info pages about my home place. But I still think I show some interesting insights on my Romanian pages. Do check them out and read about my country. If you did not yet visit, then you might want to put it on your travel plan. I'm here in Bucharest and I will be more than glad to meet you in person :)
NEW! Take a look to my postcards travelogues - these are the postcards I have received so far from VT members
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 codrutz's Albums | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Scarisoara, Calnic, Sibiu | - |  8 | | Cats, kittens, tomcats, pussycats (1) | - | 8 | | Cats, kittens, tomcats, pussycats (2) | - | 8 | | 1st serious VT meeting in Bucharest :) | - | 3 | | Latest pictures (before being added within tips) | - | 8 | | VT Meetings | - | | | Travels log | - | | Cats, kittens, tomcats, pussycats (3)  | - | 8 | | Cats, kittens, tomcats, pussycats (4) | - | 8 |
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nomad7890 Tue Jun 30, 2009 01:19 UTC
Hi Codrutz - thank you again for rescuing Sherrill! As you already saw, she received her card. Thanks again - we should be in Sibiu before we know it! ;=) | sherrillbland Tue Jun 30, 2009 01:09 UTC
Hi Codrutz! THANK YOU so much for sending the card from the Euromeet. It was in my mailbox when I returned home from Haiti on Sunday morning. It so exciting, I keep looking at all the names, etc. Thanks for letting me hang out with you guys in Cascais! | revontulet Sat Jun 27, 2009 13:39 UTC
Hi Codrutz, Thanks for yr b.day wishes:)) Hugs, Sibel | robertop Mon Jun 22, 2009 08:21 UTC
hello! sorry for missing the vt-meeting you organized ,but i was out of town for more than a week.hope there will be some other opportunity to meet with you and other vt-members;wish you nice holidays in july |
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