We were much more organised for Day 2 of our sightseeing fiesta - even ready 45 minutes before our driver-man was due to arrive. Lunch packed, water bottle packed, cash-for-entry-tickets just in case (as yesterday at Peles was cash only for tickets)... All packed. Today's destination was Bran Castle. It's marketed everywhere as Dracula's castle... but has a very, very (very) tangential relationship to Vlad the Impaler (believed to have been the inspiration for ...

When is a castle more like a palace? When it's called Peles Castle of course (strictly speaking pronounced more like "Pel-esh", but that's just semantics). The owner of the apartment we are AirBnB'ing has set us up with a friend of his to be our private driver for a couple of half day outings which is great. We had considered doing it all in one day - but given that it took us all morning to have breakfast, shower, get dressed, pack lunch and get ourselves ready ...