Hello everyone! π
I hope each of you is well, or if your week is not that good that it will improve soon as there is not too much time left until the weekend and some days off from any daily routine you might have!
For me, the previous week as well as the current one ended and began in the same way, namely on the road to a few places from my home country - Romania.
On Saturday I was actually getting ready to meet my parents after a while we haven't seen each other and then on Sunday hit the road together on the way to Timisoara which is the single city from Romania that I haven't seen before. In my previous family road trip my father said that it's a must to have the yearly road trip from 2022 around Timisoara and Arad especially because we didn't get too many chances to see this part of the country, but it looks like we managed to visit Timisoara faster than expected.
Anyway, while in Timisoara there was no snow and the landscape seemed like being spring already, on the way back home we did a detour of around 280 km to get in Alba county for some scenic landscapes whit a lot of snow and frozen nature. βοΈ
We decided to follow a different route than we followed when we previously visited this part of the country just for the sake of exploring some more paths from my lovely country and so we ended up driving on a road where you could barely see another car once in a while.
The more we were approaching the mountains, the lower the degrees were going and so a lot more snow could be seen in front of us.
Anyway, this just came as a bonus because what we were seeking for, was a waterfall that we first met one year ago during the summer called Cascada PiΘoaia which we totally fell in love even from the first time we met each other.
And here we go! π
As soon as we've seen the waterfall being mostly frozen, we completely forgot about the cold temperature and any other challenge we felt on the way to it because it's simply another proof how beautiful nature can be no matter what the season is!
It's basically the single black and white, or grey and white... or sober landscape we all love no matter how much we hate the cold days and since I know that there are quite a few hivers who never touched snow and are totally fascinated by this season, I felt the need of sharing some pictures taken recently in more regions of Romania I've been to.
The following carousel of pictures is taken in the city where I'm currently living, in a park that it's more of a forest open to the locals.
While in any other time of the year it will be impossible not to meet a lot of people walking around or kids biking, roller skating, playing football and other activities, during the winter the landscape is a lot more empty and mood calmer, more peaceful.
It's literally just you, and even if you feel pretty alone, there are a lot of huge trees that will make you feel more accompanied on your walk than you would feel with some friends. It's that kind of walk you could take over and over again without getting bored or feeling twice the same thing.
To bring a little more colour to this post, I thought that I could add a few more pictures from a place that we visit quite often and it's just 27 km away from Sibiu, called Paltinis, which is a mountain resort but which when we visited it there was just a little snow on the ground.
Though, we were still blessed with a sunny day and to see nature being unleashed and have some memorable pictures with the fog playing hide and seek with anything we could see in the valley. Such a bliss to be alive! β€οΈ
PS: Don't forget to share your thoughts down below as I can't wait to see what you think of those pictures and also to meet new people π
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