A late breakfast for us today as we had the Sunday to ourselves to do as we pleased. So we feasted on food from the local supermarket for breakfast, then headed out. We had decided to take the train down to Sighisoara, where Vlad the Impaler was born. The train platform in Odorheiu was tiny and barely noticeable. Tickets are bought on board so we settled down and waited for the train to pull up. We heard the train long before we saw it when it blew its whistle, ...

Today we became involved in a community project. This took place at a local playground, where many families and town folk congregated to help out. The idea behind it was to encourage everyone to help with the renovation of the playground and to demonstrate that community spirit can achieve an awful lot. The main NGO running it was Kalaka, which was led by an American guy called Chris who was full of enthusiasm for the project. As we were chatting, he told us that...

Breakfast at Select was a little bizarre today - battered cheese triangles served with fresh radish and vinegar. This morning we went to the hay-making field to finish what we had started. We continued with the raking of dead grass and stacking it up into bales. It was an extremely hot day which exceeded 30'C so we all took it easy with our work. It didn't take long to complete the job however so we left at around 1.30pm to have lunch at the apartment. This was a...

This morning Laszlo drove us to a kindergarten in Odorheiu as he was due to do a presentation to the kids about environmental conservation. The school didn't look too impressive from the outside as there was abandoned play equipment and it looked a little run down. However, we quickly realised that this wasn't the case at all as it was so well kept inside. Traditional Romanian furniture was dotted around, while tables of papier mache objects were displayed along ...

The day started well with fried eggs, which were of course covered in grated cheese! Eager to get going, we made our way to the butterfly house for day two of construction. Along the way, we stopped at a spring which we had not yet visited. This one was an improvement to the one before, although it still bubbled up petrol-tasting water which I couldn't quench my thirst on! Once we arrived at the butterfly house, we were shown the plans for the interior so that w...