Join me on a wintry pilgrimage through the heart of Romania. Snow on the Tracks: Shadowing Vlad the Impaler to Sighișoara is a travel essay close to my heart, recently featured as a finalist in the Pilgrimages writing competition on Intrepid Times. This journey by train, from Bucharest to the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the medieval town of Sighisoara, threads through snow-dusted forests, ancestral echoes and the pulse of a country still shaped by its legends.

It’s a story of looking out the window. And into the past.

Read the full piece here: Snow on the Tracks: Shadowing Vlad the Impaler to Sighișoara.

With thanks to Intrepid Times for publishing my travel story and to my wonderful husband for supplying those gorgeous pictures.