A thing that I believe way too few people pay attention to when exploring a new country is cars. I'm saying that not just because I am a passionate person when it comes to vehicles in all their forms, but also because I consider them very suggestive when it comes to the culture of a new place explored.
I didn't get the chance to explore lots of foreign places other than my homecountry, Romania, but what I did observe from my first hours spent in a new country, is that, not just the architecture, the language, the food and the fashion style make a great way showing the difference between our cultures, but also the cars.
And the first place where you can see some major changes is in the old towns of a city, or those places which are usually popular with tourists, because we all know that some unique and interesting (sort of) vehicles are going to catch one's attention. As examples, you might remember the gondolas from Venice or the retro cars from Prague.
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When it comes to Vienna, though, things are a bit different because it has a very big contribution to the globe's history, and hence, the popular 'vehicles' for tourists couldn't be something else but the actual carriages that were so popular a few hundred years back.
I have never ridden a horse, nor been in a carriage before, but honestly, I really enjoyed seeing all these carriages in pretty much all parts of the city, especially that the horses were very well taken care of, and even the coachmen seemed like part of a different age.
Anyway, along with the carriages that were a delight to my eyes, I couldn't stay away from observing some proper vehicles that caught my attention at first sight.
None of the brands of cars present in this post are strangers from what we have in Romania, but the little Mazda and Mitsubishi cars I'm more used to seeing in competitions, vehicle exhibitions or racing games rather than going down the streets.
At the opposite pole, there were this Mustang and BMW, which seemed a little bit closer to modern times.
While the Ford Mustangs are quite rare in the city I'm currently living in, I could see these very often during my stay in Bucharest. But despite seeing them more often or not, I still believe they represent a great looking car that one could never get bored seeing, or even driving.
A similar situation is also with the modern BMW model in my last picture, which is definitely something else from what you usually see in terms of BMWs. And that comes from a person who was never a fan of this brand of cars.
Other posts from the "Cars of..." series:
more coming soon...
Gabriela Travels is the FOUNDER of "Festival Mania" who started this community from the passion of attending various festivals and with the purpose of encouraging more people to explore festivals all around the world and share their experiences.
At the same time, Gabriela is an independent Graphic Design Freelancer since 2019 completing over 600+ orders in this time and collaborating with various businesses and people from all over the globe.
Additionally, Gabriela has her own corner on the internet since 2017 where she writes various articles for her blog, the most popular being the travel ones (300+ articles written on this field), but also approaching other topics as well, like game reviews, movie and series reviews, photography posts, cooking recipes and more, boosting the total number of articles written to 800+ blog posts.
Gabriela is also a gamer since she was 11 years old and gaming remains one of her biggest passions along with traveling, editing, cooking, and doing various sports activities.