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Esaipiens in Romania

We are french students doing our Erasmus exchange program in Sibiu. We come from Angers where we study risks management and environmental engineering at ESAIP. The purpose of this blog is to share our experiences within this country as well as our travels.

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In this part we will introduce you to the culture, customs in Romania.

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Sectors of activities in Romania and its regions

Good morning everyone, today we are going to see the sectors of activities in Romania and its regions. Romania Flag of Romania Large Romanian companies are in the mining and industrial sector (35% of gross national product). This specialization is due to Romania's relations with the USSR. One of the best known companies is Dacia (currently owned by Renault). Some regions are specialized in certain sectors of activity. Dacia logo And its regions ? Flag of Transylvania Transylvania has natural resources, it has been mining since ancient times. Today, the region mines lignite, iron, manganese, gold, copper, natural gas, salt, sulfur and wood. Agricultural activity is important: livestock, wine production and market gardening activities and food industries. Turda salt mine, transformed into a museum Typical fields in Transylvania Antoine and Kristell

Travel to Sibiu

Hello there ! In this article, I will talk about my bus travel from Paris to Sibiu. The Travel To go in my Erasmus city, I took the bus and I crossed a big part of Europe. I could see a lot of different landscapes and big European cities like Metz, Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, and a lot of little Romanian cities. The trip lasted more than 30 hours more than 2000 km. It was long and sometimes boring, but it's a good experience to cross Europe by bus. Most people in the bus were Romanians, and all the drivers were also Romanians (this was a problem for me and I will expalin that in this article). I made this choice because it was five times cheaper than the plane, and less polluting than the latter, to make an experience and to be able to say that I crossed Europe by road. The problems For this travel, I had a lot of different problems: The first time, I stood at the Bercy bus station in Paris, but it didn't stop, so I explained my problem to Flixbus's controllers and they tra...

Accomodation

Hello ! Today I'm going to tell you about our accomodation reserch. To find accommodation in Sibiu, we first tried to ask for help from an association in partnership with Romania which is located in Brittany. We didn’t get the answers we were hoping for. Secondly, we thought we would share an appartment. For this, we did research on Romanian agencies like imobiliare.ro and it was difficult to understand everything. We had negative responses because we were asking for housing in early February when the application was in December or January. Being a poor country, they want to try to get a tenant as quickly as possible. We were still surprised by the low housing prices there and it made us take into account the precariousness of this place. So we went back to t...