Why I moved to the countryside at 34
It was not a revelation. It was a cheap house and a one-month trial that has lasted three years.
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I travel. I write. I come back.
I am Maria. For three years I have lived in a village of 400 people, 40 kilometres from Cluj, and I write one story a week about what I see from here and from the road.
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Why I moved to the countryside at 34 (and what nobody told you)
It was not a revelation. It was a cheap house, an expired lease and a one-month trial that has lasted three years.
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Sunday bread: neighbour Floare’s recipe, with weights
Floare weighs nothing. I weighed it, three Sundays in a row, so you can make her bread in a city kitchen.
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Three days on the Via Transilvanica, with the wrong backpack
I left with 11 kilos on my back and came home with 7 and a list for anyone wanting to start. The Bistrița–Sărata section, in September.
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Autumn in the orchard: what to do with 200 kilos of apples
Five old trees, a good year and a pleasant problem. What I learned about juice, vinegar, drying, and neighbours who never refuse apples.
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The wooden churches of Maramureș without the coach: a two-day driving route
Eight UNESCO churches, country roads, the key from the neighbour and one piece of advice that matters: go on Sunday morning.
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I write this blog alone, since 2023, in the evenings after work. It has no ads and I write no sponsored posts; when I recommend a guesthouse or an apple press, it is because I paid and liked it. The costs (hosting, petrol, yeast) are covered by the 140 readers who support the blog with 5 lei a month.
From the roadPhotographs from this year’s stories
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