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Melissa Rossi’s job description is simple: travel and write. TRAVELER sends her to random spots throughout the world, and she sets off to find a story for the next issue. Her first destination was Sicily.

 Romania Remembrances

In part three of her ongoing European adventure, our “Travel Adventurer” (aka Melissa Rossi) departs the coastal city of Split in the young country of Croatia and finds herself in the landlocked nation of Romania. Here is a land of splendid rural beauty, a part of Europe where mass tourism has not yet reached and may never.

As Melissa travels from the capital, Bucharest, to the remote mountains of Transylvania, she sees a part of Europe little changed since the 1930s. But beyond the landscape and the friendly people, Melissa finds a country which has endured an often hard history.


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