Joanne and I had some good international travel together. Recently something reminded me of my trip to Romania. Perhaps it was stumbling on a young band from Romania doing 'covers' on You Tube. We flew to Bucharest and spent several days in a boutique hotel in the center city. Then we rented a car and drove around Transylvania. Yes, we visited Dracula's Castle where we had a great tour, with one other tourist, and a tour guide who spoke excellent English learned from American TV. He knew all the secret stairways to avoid the groups of tourists.
One of our favorite stops in Transylvania was the city of Sighisoara. The ancient city was a citadel built on a high hill with a fortified wall for protection. Now a modern city surrounded the walled city. Steps, hundreds of them, led up to the top of the hill. At the top was church, cemetery and the city high school. A road now offered access to the top. The steps were very interesting. There were six steps and a landing, six steps and a landing, and so on until the top was reached. Why? Because on the seventh day God rested!
One of the ancient Lutheran churches in the city had a pulpit outside. It was accessed from a short stair inside, elevated a few feet about the ground with a roof. Why an exterior pulpit. It was from this vantage point the pastor would preach to the lepers gathered in the yard, but excluded from entrance because of their disease.
Takk for alt,
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Inside the walled city.
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