Romania - from the Red Lake to the Black Sea

The border crossing into Romania was a relatively simple affair and we
headed across to Hunedoara for the first night.
Immediately, there had been a deterioration in the standard of driving, the
quality of the road surface and in the number of fairly big accidents.
Whilst this was initially of concern, we just rode more defensively. Use of
the horse and cart in Romania is still common with the gipsies, who
frequently lined the streets selling honey or fruit. There were certainly a
number of villages that we rode through in which we would NOT have wanted to
have broken down in! The countryside was very green and lush.
As we pressed on the next day, we stopped in a town called Sibiu, where it
turned out that there were two major events on - the 'Romaniacs' off-road
motorcycling tour and a heavy metal goth gathering. This was an interesting
combination, so we had a look around before heading up to Transylvannia, to
a town called Gheorghieni.
Along the way (where driving had improved, albeit only slightly), we noticed
that whilst the surface of the main road was potholed but OK, the side roads
in the towns were all dirt tracks, even though there were brick houses along
them. This is still a poor country in places, yet there were plenty of
expensive cars on the roads, so I expect that there are extremes of wealth.
We could never really work out what the country's main industry was.
We got soaked in Transylvannia as it rained non-stop, which meant that we
didn't get to see as much. There was little apparent in the way of castles,
although the gorges at Lacu Rossu were impressive (but touristy on a
Sunday!).
Our next stop was to zig zag down to the Black Sea to see the coast line as
neither of us had been to an inland sea before. We stayed in a town called
Saturn (the sea-side towns are all called after planets here). It was
unusual in that the sea was dead calm. The beaches were packed and pretty
tacky, but interesting to see.
We headed north again to the Danube Delta, which was a stunning area to ride
around, but there was little opportunity to stop and look around. After an
afternoon chilling out by a hotel pool, we targeted Moldavia to get to the
Ukraine.