It was good to wake up to blue sky as we are a bit over the rain and we drove off to the Astra Open Air Museum. It consists of reconstructed old homes, churches and trades from Romania's past, basically Romania's version of Sovereign Hill in a much larger area and without the cheesy bits like people dressed up in costumes.
Driving onto Sighisorara we felt like we were in the authentic Romanian countryside, we passed many people on their horsedrawn wooden carts with the women wearing full skirts and cotton scarves on their heads. As we passed through villages there were many well dressed women with their thumbs out trying to hitch a ride, public transport must not be an option so hitching seemed to be a normal mode of transport. We also came across people standing by the road selling what were either copper or brass cooking and house utensils.
We were now in Transylvania, Vlad Tepes, better known as Dracula country and on entering the old town one of the first places was the house he was born in, we decided we didn't need to pay to go inside. The old town is quite small with only one central square but the area was popular with people having their wedding photos taken. Having dinner on the square we were entertained by two girls in traditional dress playing the violin, they pulled quite a crowd and added nicely to the atmosphere (as long as you didn't turn and see the stalls selling Dracula merchandise).
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