Civitas Tropaensium was at its highest in the 6th century, when it was a bishopric, but later in that century it was sacked by the Avar tribes and stopped being an important city of Dobruja region. Today, it's abandoned, there are no admission fees.
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Emperors Constantine the Great and Licinius rebuilt the city in the 4th century and it became an important religious center with several basilicas in the city. Here is what remained of The Simple Basilica. Walking between those colonnades felt out of this world.
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The settlement was founded by emperor Traian and initially inhabited by Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars which ended in 106 AD.
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If I had only realized how close I was to the ruins of this ancient city, I would have cycled a bit more #acrossRomania and made my camp inside its walls.
Welcome to Civitas Tropaensium! This castrum (military camp) became a city within a century.

He doesn't look like he likes his job 😁

#lkie

Good read, thanks.

#pipethInMedia 😂 @Bevan
https://youtu.be/n8aK6lu6imI

The monastery of St. John the Baptist in Lipnița wonderfully wedged between a village and fields of sunflower.It's relatively new monastery, so I didn't stop by it, but looking back and seeing the view #acrossRomania makes me appreciate the fact that I'm not traveling with a car.

Met a new friend. I gained her trust with salami. She was moving in closer and closer, ending up eating from my hand, but in a such calm way, unlike other dogs I met, that I enjoyed feeding her more than having lunch myself 🐶❤️Here I also met a couple on a tandem.
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The last leg of the trip took me through a history-rich region called Dobruja, today split between Romania and Bulgaria. Throughout its history it's been ruled by Gets, Greeks, Romans, Byzantinians, Bulgarians, Mongols, Wallachians, Ottomans and finally Romanians.
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Hehe, thanks, I'll give it a go now :)

@austingriffith Blockie Miner is great! :) You basically feed it any simple image and it can mine you the address with an avatar that would correspond as close as possible to the user-submitted image? Is the seed also provided, so the user can take the full ownership of the addr?

#TIL that navigation satellites orbit at quite higher altitudes in comparison to other satellites and man-made objects (e.g. ISS and Hubble telescope). From 19000 to 23000km above us.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparison_satellite_navigation_orbits.svg

There's a cycling route that follows Danube from its start to its confluence into the Black Sea, it's called EuroVelo 6. For the most part around here it goes around Romania (through Serbia and Bulgaria), but I wanted a bit more challenging exp, so I chose not to follow it.

Kudos, looks very polished. I created a wallet, the same username as here. Thanks :)

Nice and lush. What's the view before the move?

The south of Romania is poorer than the north. But it also seems that people living there are not doing their best to take care of their "home". Garbage everywhere and this was not an isolated case.
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The paved road is in Romania, the unpaved one as well. But the buildings in the background are in Bulgaria (town of Silistra). A border fence runs at some places just 10m away from the buildings and is often being masked with thick foliage.
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Close to the city of Călărași there's a ferry that can take passengers across Danube, either to Bulgaria or to Romania. As I wanted to reach Constanța asap, I decided to skip visiting Bulgarian city of Silistra.
The ferry is free for passengers and bicycles.
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As Danube is close and a lot of swampy ground, the mosquito symphony on the outer layer of the tent was terrifying.
With the daylight some other insects came to say hi. This monster was 2 cm (almost an inch) long.
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It's so easy to camp #acrossRomania. I was woken up by a sound of a truck slowing down, surprised by my tent, then they just continued 😅
I met them an hour's later on their way back, tree loggers.
Couple of kilometers from the ferry, but the path became almost impassable.

That would be convenient, but till then you can fine-tune the cost in MetaMask.

Btw, if you're signing the transaction via MetaMask, once you choose lowest fee, and MM prompts you to sign it, there you can additionally tweak the gas price you're willing to pay.

Actually, these ones might stick around for a bit longer. With 2015 models there was not much new in comparison to say 2013, but these new ones finally got more cores and more RAM, something that A/V professionals were asking for for years now. @letterj

Welcome Adam! :) I've been following TFD and SS since the ICOs. Sold my TFD for a small profit, UBT at some point as well, still holding on to SS which is far below the ICO price of 0.00005008 ETH. Will check out PKC.

Pop in to https://ethgasstation.info/ and check the gas price. As it's not something urgent, you can wait until it goes under 10 Gwei again. I happen to be awake in the dead of night, so I can catch those brief moments when the prices are as they used to be :)

After cycling for almost 120km I was looking forward to sleeping on banks of Danube, but it turned out that the bank is rather inaccessible (for a two wheeler at least). A kilometer of swampy forest separated me from even seeing the river. So close, yet so far away #acrossRomania

Yeah, depends on the type of personality and what we expect/need when interacting with other people :)

And just across the road from the accumulation lake there's a Gipsy family makeshift settlement.
They saw me snapping a photo and they protested very vocally 🙄
I didn't want to stay and explain the principles of photography in public places.
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Little control room on an accumulation lake outlet. One of many lakes and ponds before the channel finally flows into Danube.
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The man is giving a signal to other villagers that it's safe to move cattle across the street.
Families around here have a cow or two and they escort it to and from fields they graze on. Another moment of social interaction for the villagers.
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This is the first time I've seen this approach to beekeeping. Park the hives in a sunflower field 😅
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Even though it's a national park, we managed to collect a bag full of plastic bottles and aluminum cans, some of them lied around for years. The little store on top of the mountain does not have a provided garbage disposal place, even though they're paying for it.
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Did you know that there's Sphinx in Romania, older than the one in Egypt? 🤔
It's on the photo here, located on the top of Bucegi mountains, together with another natural monuments, Old Ladies (Babele).

Thank you. The pleasure is mine :)

Reminds me of Belgrade in Serbia.
I was in Bucharest on another road trip 7 years ago, so didn't spend much time now in the city. Washing clothes and recharging take a priority 😅
I liked cycling in the city traffic, and that usually means I like the city too 😁

And with such an intact nature, drinking water from the steam? Oh, yeah! Especially when you see a snow cap from where it comes 😅
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Even with the height at around 2000m above the sea level (6500 ft) one can still find rather photogenic flowers #acrossRomania, such as this bellflower.

Behind the chalet there's a steep path that descends all the way to the little touristy town of Sinaia, in which we saw several chamois (Alpine goats). Unfortunately, they were too far away to get a decent photo, so here's another representative of wildlife #acrossRomania 😁

It is believed that Bucegi was a holy Dacian mountain of Kogainon, on which a deity called Zalmoxes lived in a cave. We didn't find the cave, but an abandoned chalet, just before descending cloud engulfed it.
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Taking a break in the capital of Romania, Bucharest, meant going out from it with a car, for a one-day hike in Bucegi mountains (part of the Carpathian range).
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Romanian oil production is on an all-time low level this year. It's on a steady decline path, but even with that decline they were in the top 30 countries by crude oil production last year.
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Nah, I was angry at first, if I stopped there'd be trouble, so I just continued 😅

Well, I know that I'm up to date on my tetanus shots 😂

Nah, it's ok, as I said, as soon as I see them rushing towards me, I either dismount and they stop or I just play with them speeding away from them (the speed needs to be 30 km/h or more) :) And now it's just a scratch. She didn't have a chance to bite properly :) @abcouthup

With 3 rainbows behind me and a storm with thunders in front of me, I decided to stop here, and by chance, it's also the administrative border between two counties (less than a US state, but more than a US county), Argeș and Dâmbovița. Fascination with borders #acrossRomania

I stopped here to admire the view...and to rub some alcohol onto a bite mark made by a dog in a village just a half mile away. It ran after me even after the owner shouted that she mustn't do that. I didn't see her coming and it felt like I was hit with a stone #acrossRomania

Yep, it is a halfway point :)
Although, I'm posting updates with a delay.