When we arrived in Sibiu, we would like to eat local food to test Romanian food. We’ve found a restaurant which called Crama Sibiul Vechi and it’s localized next to the big square “Piata mare”. We could savor local food like “mancarea becili” it’s a meal with some meats like sausage, bacon and lamb, all of this is accompanied with potato pancake and a very good sauce. We can test “traista ciobanuli” too.

Little surprise

I would like to drink a local beer, but the menu is written in Romanian so I didn’t understand very well it. The waiter asked me what I want and I said “I would like a rachiu please”, the men was surprised and when he come back I understand why he was surprised. Rachiu is a Romanian brandy but we must to drink it during the meal and not at the end. For me it was very strange, I prefer Calvados (Normandy’s brandy).

“Fast food”

In Sibiu, there is a lot of fast food which called Super Mamma you can eat shoarma or other meals. It’s very cheap, the shoarma (picture on the right) cost 13 lei (2.74€), and the Maxi kebap pui cost 17 lei (3.58€). We can eat other meals for 10 lei or less and all this food is good… GOOD DISCOVERY !

ULBS: University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, is the biggest university in Sibiu. Created in the 90s, it has 25 000 students in more than 10 faculties, such as sciences, medicine, engineering, journalism…

For housing, we have university accomodations, but you also have guest house (pensiune), for about 50 Lei (8-10€) and hotels, between 20 and 40€.

If you want to have fun, you can enjoy the variety of restaurant, pubs and night club. There are also a lot of sports clubs such as football, handball…

sources: ULBS.en

Hello everyone, today let’s talk a bit about Romanian gastronomy. I’m going to present you some dishes that I may eat, and I will post another article after I eat those dishes in order to give you my opinion about them.

First is tripe soup, which is called “Ciorbă de burtă”. It’s a famous tripe soup, also popular in Moldova and Bulgaria. It is cook using sheep tripe or veal tripe with garlic mousse in order to spice up the meal.

Then there is the sarmale, a traditional dish with cabbage, porc, rice and vegetables. This meal is very popular in Romania and Moldova.

For dessert, I may have the chance to eat a Plăcintă, which is stuffed brioche made most of the time of apple.

I hope I have made you hungry. If you are eating, enjoy your meal, and stay tuned for more informations.

Sources: Wikipedia, Guide du routard

Information about Sibiu

Romania is a Eastern Europe country with 19,532,841 inhabitants and Bucharest is the capital. Sibiu is the greater city on the Transylvania, she is localized in the center of Romania and there are 151,894 inhabitants who live in here. In 2007 Sibiu was the European capital of culture and she joined the European Union at the same date.
The climate is cold to temperate, in Sibiu, average annual temperature is 8.9°C. This country is bordering with Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Moldovia and Ukraine.

Access & transports

From France to Sibiu you can take the plane in the airport in Beauvais, if you want to go directly in Sibiu so this travel last 2 hours 35 minutes. Or you can take leave France in the airport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle so the travel last 4 hours. On the spot, 41% of the population uses mass transit like bus, minibus and tramway like the picture below. This city have developpe this means of transport to avoid having a large amount of cars during the peak hours. On the spot, there are many taxis and they are cheaper than France.

Monuments & other sites

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If you want to visit a lot of sites with a historical life, you can go immediately in Sibiu ! You can admire approximately 30 interesting sites and monuments like fortifications was built during the Middle Ages, museums and many cathedrals like the Holy Trinity Cathedral (left picture) or the Evangelical Cathedral of Sibiu (right picture).

Natural sites

Mountains represents a large space nearby Sibiu, therefore we have the opportunity to ski near to the city, because ski resort is 40 minutes away from the downtown. So there is many cultivated plains in Romania with the local agriculture for example. If you prefer you can go to the south east coast to see the black sea.

Source : wikipédia ; City of Sibiu

We are two french students (Erwan & Mathieu) in an engineering school which is called ESAIP in France.

We will study at the Faculty of Sciences in Sibiu during four months at Lucian Blaga University from end of february to end of june. You can follow our adventures on the blog, it will also give you informations about Romania.

Enjoy !