The sheer number of fortified churches #acrossRomania can be seen on this map. 7 of them are on the UNESCO's heritage list.

As all the empires ultimately fell apart (the last one controlling Transylvania was Austro-Hungarian empire), Germans and Hungarians found themselves encircled in the middle of #acrossRomania, where many of them still live.Germans outside Ger were often forced to leave after WW2.

All the fortified churches #acrossRomania were built by Saxons, who initially came to Transylvania to defend the borders of the Holy Roman Empire (German empire back in the day) from that's from East in 13th century and they kept coming throughout later centuries as well.

If we fast forward #acrossRomania from the previous woodenchurch in Hunedoara county, to town of Sebeș in Alba county (both of them in Transylvania), we start seeing more Protestant churches (of which fortified churches are local specialty). This is the Protestant graveyard.

I think carousel would be even more intuitive, and a reply to a reply, not to the original peep, could be nested. Reddit is nested like that. And if you swipe or clock next you move onto the next peep. As it is now, reading gets interrupted by other random pps. @bevan

If like to see this one too @bevan! :)
Also, lots of time to think about stuff while cycling, I though about how peeps are organized. It's following what we're already familiar with. What if it would be in a form of a carousel? One peep and underneath listed all replies.

It's great to see from carpentry point of view, how they brought the side planks/walls together #acrossRomania.

The graveyard around the little church is rather new. It's dominated by a family tombstone, that's the size of a small house #acrossRomania, much like the ones found in Cemitério dos Prazeres (Pleasures Cemetery) in Lisbon.
And, weirdly as it sounds, I like old graveyards.

This is engraved above the entrance. To the best of my knowledge, this is the Romanian Cyrillic alphabet that was used #acrossRomania before 1860s. Later they transitioned to Latin alphabet. The entrance is lowered, so you have to bow, symbolically bowing in front of god as well.

Yesterday's window was a fragment #acrossRomania from a little wooden church of St. Dimitri, built in 1663. Couldn't peek inside but what little I could see through the window. It was off my track, but when I saw a sign that there is one, couldn't resist.

One of the clear signs that the food in some place is really good is either a lot of trucks parked outside or, if in a city, the place looks shabby, the clientele is a mixture of soup kitchen regulars and those luckier that are not. I'll spare you of the food pics 😂

Luckily, I figured out there's the emergency mode override in the per menu, so I could switch it off and I got the keyboard access on. Otherwise, the next stop would be Clearcache-town 😅
As I got my beauty sleep, I'll pack up and go into the city of Sibiu now for electric rech.

I slept for solid 10h. A poor scared dog whom I fed last night set the bicycle alarm off. Then my Samsung decided it wants my password after hours of inactivity, as usual, but, as I switched on so called emergency battery saving mode, it wouldn't show me the keyboard.

I dream of it, unfortunately, I love working and being up at night too.

More photos tomorrow, now just one small detail of what I visited #acrossRomania.
I'm also calling it a day earlier than usual, I need some more sleep. See you tomorrow 🤗

I'm running very low on all batteries #acrossRomania. Tomorrow will ride to Sibiu and merge breakfast and brunch in order to recharge the devices :D And because of what's behind the end of this road here, a decided to make a little detour.

In previous trips every time we'd visit a new city in Germany, I'd end up in Burger King or McDonald's, free electricity, nobody's bothering you and a happy me(al) 😅

Thanks :)

It's my default one as well 🤗

Well, I'm ok with bandwidth. Romania is notoriously famous for its cheap high-speed internet.
For 9 EUR you get 1 Gbps via fiber optic.
https://www.digiromania.ro/servicii/internet/internet-fix/fiberlink-1000

And on mobile, unlimited data for 4 EUR.

Add to it red and white raincoat, red cycling jerseys and red gloves...they probably think I'm a Polish guy lost in Romania.

"See, not all of us are viscously after the cyclists #acrossRomania. At least not when you hop off the bike. Now, is that a sausage-phone?"

So nice to have so many devs around 🤗
Thanks @abcoathup as well. I'll stick with the first two then.

Paradox of the 21st century. Unlimited data, limited battery life.
🤦‍♂️

So far I've come across blackberries, raspberries, apricots, apples and pictured below red plums #acrossRomania.
Catering sponsored by mother nature.

Anyone using Cipher instead of Toshi or Trust? How does it compare?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

Then there should be a tag line "Come to Peepeth, here you can always have one follower more than on Twitter!" 😅

It was Ego's idea, but then Superego told Ego that it should undone, and Superego also promised Id sugar, so Id is backing that idea up and Ego had to let it go.
Ooh, sugar! 🤤
Id, are you on the phone again? 😮
He can get on the phone AND sugar, and I get nothing!🤴

Actually, @Bevan, could this above be something that you might be able to fix?

@Bevan, is it normal that I can actually start following myself? I just did it and the action went through 😅

There's another bug on both Trust and Toshi, when tapping on Attach photo, then choosing local storage, but going back without actually finishing the selection of a photo, attach photo button stops working. Reload doesn't help. You have to kill the apps. I'll report it now.

I should say that I work on it even today :) As with everything else in life, every new night spent "under the stars" increases the comfort zone. E.g. for every new trip I pack a bit differently than the last time. At some point you'll find that perfect combo :)
#acrossRomania

It's not, for the most of Europe. I actually think that most one-night campers go unnoticed #acrossRomania. In DE it's not allowed to pitch up a tent unless on a camping ground, so I was always going deeper into the forest,but elsewhere I don't really care.I'm by the road tonight

Actually, today I complained about the accidental reload too :)
Trust is still using Android browser libraries and that reload gesture is a browser gesture. @koba welcome :) When you notice that you cannot scroll, just zoom in and then the scroll will become available once again.

Thanks 🤗

In my modest experience it works better for me on desktops. Both Yoshi and Trust sometimes fail to open photo attach dialogue (luckily, not at the same time), & quite often scrolling becomes disabled, as pulling down triggers refresh, so I use workaround to zoom in & then scroll.

Indeed it did, @cyan told me yesterday about landslides caused by heavy rainfall in some other areas, but I had luck not to be bit by any bigger storms so far. Only, it's getting colder. Last night it was 10°C (50°F) and the daily will be around 20°C (68°F). Plus colder winds :)

I think I'm being followed 🙄

Wild camping. Gives me freedom to cycle as late in the evening as I want to and an opportunity to choose what I see in the morning 🙂

Thanks 🤗
I guess both of us are doing it in our own way. Keep those vids coming 🙂

Btw, I love the fact that you can contribute to OSM from Maps.me

Yeah, I'm using Maps.me as well (@cyan swears by that app), but only to bookmark places :)
They do have a nice navigation, but lack other statistics, which I'm a nerd for 😁

They were short, 20m, but frequent and after each I had to scrape off the mud in order to move further 😅

I wasn't aware of it :) Thanks for letting me know, I'll find out more now :)

Thanks. I still get surprised with bokeh on this phone (S7 Edge).

See you tomorrow folks, somewhere else #acrossRomania

And unaware of all the struggle in the mud #acrossRomania were these fellas, a bee, a bumblebee and an ant, all working the same flower.

And unbelievably, this little ladybug survived and reached the other side with me. I took the photo before I started going into the water and was surprised to see the little guy still roaming the bike after all the mud and water 😄

The plan worked, kinda.
At least my shoes were clean.
But the bike had kilos of mud all over itself. The tires would lift it up, the fenders and the frame would scrape it off, then the mud falls into the brakes, panniers, chain, derailer.

Yeah, it can be used while riding, I just have to strap it with an elastic cord and tuck in cable and whatever I'm charging either in a bag underneath or wedge it between two bags. It's quite heavy, I'd say around 1.5kg /3 lb.