Romania is an amazing country.
Most people imagine the country as rough, poor, violent, dark, or even asiatic.
Dracula remains to be the first association with the word Transylvania, even though this fantasy-figure was invented by an Englishman who had never been there. After the horror-stories about orphanages and hospitals that appeared in Western media after the 1989 'revolution' much has changed for Romania's population. The worst cases of poverty-stricken institutes have been eliminated. Even so, the black images linger in the minds of people who never were there, and don't consider ever going there. Maybe these pages about this special Eastern European country will enlighten a few of you, and convince you that Romania is a country to be experienced.