Finally, summer is here! After a rainy and very cold June, the sun eventually came out, and the weather warmed up. And so, during the first true summer weekend of this year, we went to Sighisoara for a family reunion. As always, the bikes came along for the fun.
We took a long break in an area of the park called “The Oak Cemetery”, which lies in the beech wood on the south of the reservation. We climbed the dead but still standing oak trunks and took pictures. Their big branches still somehow seem alive surrounded by the beech foliage and you’d think they’d stay like that forever, as sculptures, if not for the scattered and hollow oak lying on the floor of the forest.
On the plateau, the oak seem the fare much better. There are a few of them leafless, dry, contorted in the heat struck sky. But most of them are alive and impressive with their massive crowns that could easily shelter an entire flock of sheep, complete with the ever present sheep dog, allergic as always to anything on two wheels.
After the final break, which we took to see a 700 year old, 7m in circumference oak, we headed back to Sighisoara. Before taking the same trail down (some on the bikes, others not), we played in the woods and tried some technical bike exercises. We got home just in time for the final feast. On our way back from Sighisoara to Brasov we encountered cars with bikes on top, most likely returning from the Azuga mountainbiking marathon. This photo here on the left is dedicated to them.
Since Sighisoara is a traditional place for our family reunions, we are sure to come back with the bikes. From Breite, you get to the Crint citadel, and even Biertan. Or to the east, to the Saschiz citadel. Or to the south, to Apold, then Mesendorf and Viscri. Lots to do!
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