1st of December, 2021.
The location where I am is good. But after some good minutes nobody is stopping yet. Bran is so close to here so I just don’t get it.
Finally a guy in a van with a bread advert all over stops. There is also some bread inside the van, so close to me that I can even smell it. I wish I had the courage to ask him for a little piece. He drops me in a beautiful spot, with a wonderful view of some mountains, which is about 10 Km of Bran. After him, a lovely elderly man stop his old car and in no English tells me he will drive me to Bran. And he does. I think it is super funny when we arrive in front of the castle, he makes this “ghosty” kind of sound, like Uhhhhl, and then he say “Drácula!” I laughed.
I ask the guard at the gate checking certificates if I can just walk in a little bit for a photograph and he let me. The when I ask the lady selling the tickets if I could go around for a photograph only in the grounds, the bitch says “It is the same price”. So I decide to follow the road around the castle, from where I came here, to try my luck of a nice outside photograph. I have no intentions of going inside because I have seem parts of it in a tv show and it is not inspiring at all, full of white walls with some frames on it. What?
Anyway, to my total surprise, right at the back of the castle, there is a open area, like a garden or something, on Google Maps you can find it as Inima Reginei Maria, and from there I have an incredible view of the castle, perfect spot for a photograph. In your face, selfish lady of the tickets office! I mean, come one! She could have told me about this place, couldn’t she? After all, I only asked to take an outside photograph.
Leaving Bran, trying to hitchhike in the direction of Sighisoara, I notice is starting to get late so I know I will not be able to visit the citadel today but I still have chances of arriving on it.
As soon as I put my backpack on the floor, Vlad and his wife in their cute little car stop for me. They tell me they are only going to Brasov but they also tell me my chances from there will be better. I believe on them and get in. They also like to travel and backpacking so we have a cool conversation during our short trip together. They drop me in a busy big road in direction of Sighisoara but in a gas station. Before I leave, Vlad gives me avocados! Wow! I am so happy! He only says that being a Brazilian, he can imagine how happy I would be for having some. He is damn right!
At the gas station, a elderly man in a small truck stops and say he is going to Sighisora. I know I cannot trust on him 100% but I feel safe enough to ride with him to there, even though it will be already dark by the time we get in there. I am right about everything. He try to ask something about sex, which is absolutely ridiculous and I cannot understand how stupid can he be to even think I would say yes. Anyway, after I say a sharp no, he insinuates I could watch him while he masturbates himself. Honestly, I think I could have throw up at this moment if my stomach was a little bit weaker. I get real crossed by his insinuation and noticing that, he kind of apologize and say there is no problem. Oh, how disgusting!
Luckily, not far after that, we arrive in Sighisoara. He drops me in a gas station somewhere near the citadel.
