Our six weeks stay in Romania was coming to a close. The Boinganue family were "over the top" gracious hosts. The children began leaving for college and I felt a bit sad, realizing I may never see them again. Ben and Anna are dear friends, the kind you have for a life time regardless of the distance. We were so pleased that they had the time to take us on this site-seeking trip and leave us at a hotel near the Bucharest Airport.
I reported on the Bram Castle and now I want to report on the King's Castle. As you can see from the picture above, the grounds are very picturesque. I often wished we had made this trip in Spring or Fall. The mountains were beautiful anyway.
We were not allowed to take pictures inside, but it was on the order of Biltmore in Ashville. The castle had the first electric elevator in Europe, fully functioning bathrooms, radiant heat behind fake firepaces, and a central vacuum system. Every guest suite represented the decor of a different country. The Bram castle's walls were very plain with few picures or hangings, but the Sinaia Castle had gorgeous wood paneled walls, ornately carved in many places, lots of marble, huge framed pictures that the queen painted or that were presented by other countries.
Music filled this castle home because the queen was creative and musical herself, as well as bringing it into the family life in the form of concerts and art forms of all kinds. I enjoyed trying to imagine what it would have been like living in this spacious place as a child. Hide n Seek would have been a blast with secret doorways through huge wardrobes standing in a hall and a whole section of the library wall that opened up as a secret passage to somewhere I don't remember.
There was a lot of fascinating history that passsed through my mind. The Romanian people are lovers, not fighters, very creative, excelling in art, music and poetry.
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