Tag Archives: Dracula
Vampires Everywhere
As we’ve been going through some of my posts from past vacations, we shift today from the beaches of Maine to central Europe. This one is from September 25, 2014. Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps the country’s biggest tourist draw. But a flawed one that many Romanians are ambivalent about. Tourist cash is welcome, […]
In Search of Dracula
Welcome to re-run time. Some of my favorite posts, mostly older and travel related, while I myself am on the road. While I am away I am busily writing new material which will start appearing here when I get home next month. I’m already looking forward to sharing the new material with you and hope […]
The Vampire’s Castle
Everyone seems a little stir-crazy these days. We can’t go anywhere or do anything. So I thought it would be nice to re-publish a few of my travel tales, places you might want to visit if the planes ever fly again. This one is from September 2014. Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps the country’s […]
Searching For Dracula Again
It is Tuesday, and I decided that today we’d go for an encore, a post originally published on September 25, 2014. At this point I have no idea what is coming up when Wednesday rolls around. Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps the country’s biggest tourist draw. But a flawed one that many Romanians are […]
Searching For Dracula – II
Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps, the biggest tourist draw. Romanians would be proud of him, you would think. But they’re not. Oh, they’ll exploit his image and soak the tourists. The image of Dracula that you know from Hollywood movies and Bram Stoker’s novel is everywhere. But Vlad Dracul, 15th century ruler of the […]
Searching For Dracula
Dracula is everywhere in Romania, perhaps the country’s biggest tourist draw. But a flawed one that many Romanians are ambivalent about. Tourist cash is welcome, but I got the impression that vampires are not a favorite topic. Irish novelist Bram Stoker had never been to Romania when he set his 1897 vampire novel Dracula in […]
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