An evening in Brasov

The Kolping hotel has an Alpine look about it and our room backed onto the mountain itself with pines soaring upwards with their tops in the clouds.

After the rain.

Brasov Historic Quarter from the hotel terrace.

A traditional beer hall or Hanul.

The Black Church is top left.

The Biserica Neagra, or Black Church took a century to build and was completed in 1477. It is gothic in style, and is the largest church between Vienna and Istanbul. The church organ has 4000 pipes and is still played at regular recitals. The church gets it's name  from it's soot blackened walls after the Austrian Army started a great fire in Brasov in 1689.

The Black Church spire in the centre of the photo. The restaurant Bella Musica is on the right.

The Black Church clock tower.

A smaller church with a crucifix along the side wall.

Further down the side street we spent a pleasant half hour relaxing. Richard wanted a beer I said 'I want that one, pointing at someone else's drink which was a light pink colour. We were told it was Limonada, and made the pleasant discovery that homemade lemonade had fresh strawberries whizzed into it, then crushed ice. It was perfect for the day, and the bar playedsome interesting laid back jazz.

The bar with pink lemonade.

More later, pa pa!