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Travel Talk: our visit to Romania with special guest guide Teo Ivanciuc

Have you thought of visiting Romania? Would you love to have a personalized "Rick Steves type experience" with a private, Rick Steves recommended Romanian guide who will handle all the logistics and customize the itinerary to meet your special interests? At a price point that is surprisingly competitive with big bus tours, without the big bus!

Please join us for this very special meeting to talk about our visit to Romania, along with special Romania guest guide Teo Ivanciuc.

WHEN: Saturday, November 8, 2025 @ 11am-1pm Pacific
WHERE: online (details will be sent via pm closer to the meeting date)

Please RSVP on this thread.

New participants, please note: if you are new to this meeting, there is a security setup step which I will send to you via private message on this forum. You must complete that step a.nd reply to my message. After I receive your reply, I will send the meeting link.

Disclaimer - the discussions at these travel meetings have been known to increase the length of travel wishlists!

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MEETING TOPICS

Our visit: hear from TexasTravelMom, Mardee and CWsocial about our 3+ weeks in Romania, including time spent with Rick Steves recommended guide Teo Ivanciuc.

Q&A with Teo: expert Romanian guest guide Teofil Ivanciuc will share his expertise about Romania, its culture and people, and answer questions about his flexible, private tours.

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ABOUT EXPERT GUIDE TEO

Teofil is a private tour guide, travel designer, and travel consultant in Romania. During the last 20 years, he has guided people from 50 countries on 7 continents. He specializes in multi-day tours for genuinely small, private groups.

We started with Teo's Grand Tour of Romania and customized it, adding nights in 1 town and adding the town of Horezu to visit the ceramic artisans:

https://maramurestour.com/maramures-transylvania-bucovina/

Rick Steves episode of Romania featuring Teo as he shows Rick around Maramures:
https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/romania

See Teo specifically at 21:22 in the video, although he is showing Rick around throughout the Maramures section of the episode.

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Darn! I will be flying home this day and will miss. Maybe you and I can talk privately sometime as I would love to know more.

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Yes, add me please and thank you!