Category Walking E8

Day 179, Zetea – Odurheiu Secuiesc

Weather: 🌥️⛅☁️🌥️☁️ Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, chimney bread at the side of the road)Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, long roadwalk again. Practical but not interesting)Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️️🛏️ (4 out of 5, lovely and clean appartment with very good facilities)Name…

Day 178, Suseni – Zetea

Weather: ☁️🌥️☁️🌥️☁️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, wraps with cheese and fruit at a picnic bench in front of the shop in Sicasau) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, long roadwalk again. Practical but not interesting) Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️️🛏️ (5 out of…

Day 177, Ditrau – Suseni – Ditrau

Weather: ☁️🌥️⛅⛅⛅Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, bread on a square in Joseni) Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩 (2 out of 5, start was pretty, got lost, a lot of roadwalk again. Better than yesterday though)Milestone: 4500 km!Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️️🛏️ (4 out of 5, nice…

Day 176, Tulghes – Ditrau

Weather: ☁️🌧️🌥️🌧️🌥️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, bread with ham and cream on the side of the road) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, most functional way to walk for us, but boring never the less..😅) Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️ (4 out of…

Day 175, Cabana Fantanele – Tulghes

Weather: ☁️☁️🌥️🌥️🌧️ Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps in a field next to the track) Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩 (2 out of 5, nice track until after Dochia hut, then hard to find and tough, overgrown track, and finally a roadwalk to…

Day 174, Poiana Largului – Cabana Fantanele

Weather: ☁️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌥️Lunch: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, pasta and pizza in Dargau) Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩 (2 out of 5, ok roadwalk, hard to find and tough, muddy track) Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️ (4 out of 5, nice room, good bed and shower, good food…

Day 173, Madei – Poiana Largului

Weather: ⛅⛅⛅⛅⛅Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, sandwiches with leftover cheese and bacon from breakfast) Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩 (2 out of 5, pleasant roadwalking) Hotel: 🛏️🛏️ (2 out of 5, nice, basic cabin) Name of followed trail: alternative trail on the road…

Breaking trail (with a smile)

This morning we’ve come to a decision. After 171 days of following E8, we have chosen to change trails and follow the Via Transilvanica for the Romanian part of our journey to Istanbul. The reason being that with the information…

Day 171, Alpin Hotel Rarau – Somewhere on a hill

Weather: ☀️⛅⛅🌧️⛅Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps while watching 2 men picking mushrooms) Track: 🇷🇴 (1 out of 5, first part really nice track, last 5 kilometers there was almost no track, so 5 km bushwhacking on a ridgeline) Campsite:…

Day 170, Vatra Dornei – Alpine hotel Rarau

Weather: ☁️☀️☀️☀️☀️Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪🥪 (4 out 5, wraps and cheese from the cheese farm!)Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩🇷🇴🇷🇴 (4 out of 5, tough 4×4 track up to Giumalau peak, then down on a narrow trail through the forest and up again to Rarau)Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️🛏️…