19/08/2025
Later, when the little kids have already gone upstairs to bed and the old folks are drowsing in their chairs against the wall, someone finally asks: “What are you doing here?”
“Do you not see a lot of Americans?” asks Jonathan.
“Why would they come here,” the man says “when even Romanians would prefer to go to Austria?”
By now we know the answer, of course. And down the road we will look back on this as one of those brief windows of simple pleasure we almost took for granted. But now our legs hurt from skiing and dancing, our eyes are bleary, our throats are sore from singing Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra and Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus,” and it’s too late to try to explain. https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/europe/touring-transylvania-romanian-ski-trip/ because winter or summer, skiing or are inspiring to go forward!
