Medieval Farm Fare and Treehouse Bedrooms At A Family Run Farm in Romania

The round windows on the left are the farm hotel bedroom windows enjoying views of the countryside.

You could sit here forever.

In the distance are circular buildings with thatched roofs.

The canopy where we are sitting is also thatch.

Problem
Where can you see the real Romania, the old countryside, but still enjoy modern plumbing and creature comforts?

Answer
The Farm complex.

Story
We arrived just before a storm. We had time to enjoy sitting outdoors under a wooden canopy, watching the animals and focussing our eyes on the distant hills.

Casserole Lunch
When it rained we went indoors.

The farmhouse lunch was filling and satisfying. Heavy bread bread soaking up the vegetable and meat stew.

The complex of buildings provides non-stop entertainment. There's something to look at, at every turn.

The dining area spreads over two buildings and the outside. The family, we met the father and son,  and their helpers are busy bustling about, carrying trays of food, lots of banter, friendly chat, information about how they breed animals, plant crops, create the old style buildings.

Bedrooms
I asked to see the bedrooms. You have a choice. adjoining the dining room is a long corridor with bedrooms. Those on the field side have a view of the fields.

On the road side, no windows. Not sure I'd like that. The whole point of being in the countryside is to enjoy the countryside. However, if you were on honeymoon, or having a couples weekend, you might enjoy the privacy of a room without windows.

Alternative accommodation is in the tree houses. Very popular. Fully booked. So we couldn't get to see inside one.

I loved it. Normally I like the city and culture and like to take a quick look at a country scene, snap a picture and move on. But I think you could pass a night or two or longer here. Every piece of furniture, every piece of equipment, has a story which the family owners are glad to share.

Ferma Dacilor Inn
T o h a n i Gura
Vadului 107302
Romania
Tel: +40 728 757 048
www.fermadacilor

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

The Future of Food Production and Diets - What Would Benefit the world?

Travelling around the world you encounter different diets in different cultures. The Muslims and Jews don't eat pork. The Jews don't eat shellfish and won't mix meat and milk at the same meal. Hindus don't eat beef.

Animal lovers avoid battery farmed eggs and veal. Vegans avoid eggs and milk. Vegetarians eat vegetables and fruit and grains.

Health-conscious people aim for organic food.

Dieters go fro fruit juices and avoid starches. (Other diets avoid fats, or sugars.)

Americans avoid Malaysian vegetables, grown in 'night soil' - manure or sewage; whilst Malaysians avoid Australian vegetables 'grown in chemicals'.

Arab countries and poor countries admire the fat and wealthy, well-fed look.

Western countries like the thin and energetic look this century. (In the painter Titian's day fashions in female forms was obviously different. Maybe painters preferred patrons who were and looked wealthy.)

Shakespeare did not like the lean and hungry look. (But Shakespeare and Marlow also liked drinking in taverns.)

As for drink, Muslims and Hindus are against alcohol. But the Irish and British are fond of alcohol. In the last century it was safer to drink alcohol than polluted water.

What of the future? We hear and read a lot about global warming. The UK is now proving wines.
Foods from distant lands are imported.

If you were a visitor from Mars, what would you think would be the best solution?

Hindus who don't eat meat, to preserve cows and oxen, work animals which roam freely, eating wherever and whatever and belong to the ruling classes?

The Chinese and / or there view that you eat anything with four legs except a table? (That would include stray dogs.)

Certain African tribes which eat insects?

Eating game? This would include lions, birds of prey, and so on.

Eating domestic pets? Rabbits?

Licensing all animal owners.  Marking animals, not just sheep and cows, and dogs, but also cats and chickens.

Killing animals which eat or attack humans? This would include crocodiles, some elephants, lions, jaguars, leopards.

Killing animals which eat others? This would include killing lions and foxes. Large snakes. Crocodiles.

Killing animals which eat crops or damage trees. This would / could include d e e r, birds.

Introducing animals which eat others?

Moving animals which eat others' eggs? (Removing hedgehogs to new places when they eat birds' eggs.)

Allowing everybody to eat everything like the Chinese?

Making everybody vegetarian like the Hindus?

Having meat-free days, just as the Catholics used to eat fish on Fridays. Copying some Indian groups have vegetarian day? Giving up wheat food which was given up in Lent after using up the wheat leftover from last year in pancakes, to ensure no contamination by mould of the new crop?

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, researcher, author and speaker.