Vienna - the Big Wheel - as featured in the Third Man.
Vienna - St Stephen's Square. Note successful modern building on left, right opposite cathedral.
Vienna - Sue 'virtually' conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Music House .
Bucharest - Revolution Square - memorial to the revolutionaries (mostly students at this point) who were killed on Dec 21st 1989 when Ceausescu's police opened fire on a demo.
Brasov - the huge church (c 1400) towers over the town.
Sue and Asad (Hungarian Arab)
A typical Saxon village in Transylvania
Barbara (one of our guides and hosts) approaching one of the famous Saxon fortified churches.
A farmer with cartload of vegetables
Jenny and Adrian ready to mount
No hedges or gates - just wonderful country to ride over . . . . . .
. . . . . . for miles and miles
Lunch time. The dog followed us all morning, but lost us after lunch.
Saxon fortified church at Biertan
Typical Transylvanian countryside
Biertan
Lock in the church - it operates 15 locks
Huge beech, oak and hornbeam forests
Barbara explaining charcoal--burning
Charcoal-burning - note size of man
A rather small village
Waiting for fish . . . .
Annual fishing from a reservoir
Fortified church at Selistat
Water buffalo - note small-boy herder
Fagarash mountains in the background - highest in Romania
19th Cent washing machine
The stream makes a whirlpool - the clothes are washed in 15 minutes
Monastery - quite modern (2000)
Ikon painter -on glass; this is the the back . . .
. . . .and this the front
Bucharest - Palace of Parliament - 2nd biggest building in the world (after the Pentagon)
Budapest - loo in Lukacs cafe, former haunt of secret police
Budapest - memorial to the 1956 revolution