Honeymoon cont...Stepping back a bit and during our travels, we...

Honeymoon cont...

Stepping back a bit and during our travels, we visited Peles Castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. It's the most exquisitely detailed castle. It completely supports the surrounding communities through tourism. It was built between 1889–1903 as the future residence of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania.

Queen Elisabeth wrote in her journal during the build...

"Italians were the masons, Romanians were building terraces, the Gypsies were coolies, Albanians and Greeks worked in stone, Germans and Hungarians were carpenters, Turks were burning brick, the engineers were Polish and the stone carvers were Czech, the Frenchmen were drawing, the Englishmen were measuring, and so was then when you could see hundreds of national costumes and fourteen languages in which they spoke, sang, cursed and quarreled in all dialects and tones, a joyful mix of men, horses, cart oxen and domestic buffaloes."

Image below. Peles Castle. Literally every inch of this castle is a work of art.