Travel Talk Nov 8: our visit to Romania with special guest guide Teo Ivanciuc

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.

Places we visited pre-tour: Bucharest, Brasov
Places we visited with Teo: Sighisoara, Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, Maramures, Bucovina, Timisoara, Horezu (our addition)

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.

TRIP REPORTS read more about our travel in Romania

TexasTravelMom
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/3-1-2-weeks-in-romania

CWsocial
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/romania-trip-report-bucharest-brasov-and-customized-grand-tour-romania-with-teo

Mardee
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/romania-up-close-and-personal-our-private-tour-experience

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.

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.

Drat, yes we'll have to talk Tammy.

Yes, add me please and thank you!

Please sign me up! Looking forward to it.

Best to all,
Cynthia

Sounds great. Please add me.

We have a wedding that day at 4:00 our time and we need about 1 hour to get into Manhattan from Brooklyn. I know, it’s only about 11 miles to drive but it could even take longer.
Anyway, if I promise my hubby I will be ready to go out the door, I could stay on for at least an hour.
I checked again and the ceremony begins at 4:30 so I have a little leeway. We can’t miss it though as my 2 granddaughters are in the wedding party.

I was thinking of you ladies and can’t wait to hear all about your time together, even if it is just a little bit!

Barbara, you are welcome for as long as you can stay without missing the wedding!!

Tammy, just add it to your list now. 🤣

Please add me.

I’d love to attend, but I will be traveling.

Please add me, thank you!

I will be traveling as well, but would love a link in case I can make it work, thank you!

acraven and Barb (Cleveland) - I've sent you each a message with the preliminary setup required to join this meeting.

Everyone else has attended previously, so you should be set. I will send the meeting link nearer the date.

Our online meetings have plenty of room for anyone who would like to join!

Sign me up, please :-)

Mary, I just sent you a forum message. Looking forward to having you join us!

I’d like to join.

We hope to be there. Can you add us?

Elizabeth - just sent you a private message with the security setup, since I believe this is your first meeting with us.

Carol - of course, there's always room!

Everyone - if you've participated before, I'll be sending the meeting link nearer the meeting date.

Please add me, too. Thank you!

Sounds fantastic, unfortunately I have a conflict with that day so look forward to reading all your TR's!

Please sign me up! Thanks so much.

Please add me to the list.

Sign me up too please. 8pm Central European Time

Have you noticed that there is a PBS nature special about the animals and terrain of Transylvania on the featured shows this week?

Id like to join in.

Thanks!

Mardee, CW, TTM, et al.

My apologies. Take me off the list so there is room for someone else. This just popped up on my calendar, and while I love you guys ..... naaaaa, I am going here (last year): https://youtu.be/NI1WBkc_hiY?si=NDKamRaM2IAGnYry Mardee, notice how .... nevermind. LOL. (come on, friend, laugh with me)

I will send out the meeting link towards the end of this month. There is plenty of room for anyone who would like to join!

Sorry, I have an AGM (National Trust) in Swindon all day so won't be back in time.

It is AGM season, I have another a week later and another at the beginning off December.

AGM = Annual General Meeting of a charity or a company.

Mardee, notice how .... nevermind. LOL. (come on, friend, laugh with me)

Ha ha, Mr. E, I did notice!!! I think I'll start counting and let you know what I find out, lol! Sorry you won't make it—and that your cultural pleasures outweigh your attendance at our soiree (I was looking forward to seeing you in a tailcoat). 😉

I’d like to join, please, if there’s room.

Bucharest cathedral in the news this week:

https://apnews.com/article/romania-church-cathedral-europe-orthodox-e06e3f275ca32c8796934390fb385327?

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being opened after 15 years of construction.

Worshippers and officials arrived in droves at the People’s Salvation Cathedral, known as the National Cathedral, which at its highest point stands more than 125 meters (410 feet) and has an inner capacity for 5,000 worshippers in the deeply Orthodox country. The cathedral’s opulent interior is covered with frescoes and mosaics depicting saints and icons.