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You know what you’ve done now, I’m hooked on these posts.

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Great post and map! I and my wife have been to Romania twice. The first time in the 1980's during the Ceaușescu regime. We stayed a week in Mamaia, close to Constanta which is shown in the map. That trip was truly awful. All prejudices about communism turned out to be true.

The second time was a few years ago. We were invited to a wedding in Bucharest of two of my colleagues in Brussels. While there, we went to Hanul Bran, (Dracula....), south-west of Brasov also shown in the map. This trip was truly wonderful.

During the second trip, I learned to be careful about the auto spelling feature in WhatsApp. While eating at a roadside side restaurant, I took a picture and what about to send it to my daughter indicating that we were in Transsylvania. WhatsApp decided to intervene and changed it to Transsexual.

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