# Travel: what can we trace on the road to Beijing?

Follow Nicolae Milescu’s 1675–1676 embassy on a map, then explore projects about routes, travellers and the ways people move.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/travellers/

- [Șumuleu Ciuc: how many kilometres on foot to the Pentecost pilgrimage](https://mariuscomper.uk/sumuleu-csiksomlyo/en/): From the western border to the valley that fills each Pentecost run 485.3 km of marked road — 20 days of walking. Type a town name: the page shows the road that remains, section by section.
- [Eight electric cars over 35,594 km: every charging stop of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour, on one road](https://mariuscomper.uk/opt-electrice-35689-km/en/): Eight electric cars, four countries, eight timed days. The data of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour puts every stop on one road: how long it took, what it cost, how much battery was left on arrival. One car spent 3 h 15 min at stations over the tour, another 10 h 3 min.
- [The Strait of Malacca: a long corridor, a narrow gateway](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-malacca/en/): The Strait of Malacca is about 800–930 km long, depending on the source, and about 2.8 km wide at its southern gateway. What its numbers measure: 94,301 transits, 23.2 million barrels a day, 29%, 48%. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [The Strait of Gibraltar: 14 km of water and two currents in opposite directions](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-gibraltar/en/): At its narrowest the Strait of Gibraltar is about 14 km wide. The Atlantic flows in on top and the Mediterranean flows out underneath. With a map for measuring the width, the Pillars of Hercules, the 1713 treaty and the shipping traffic in numbers. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [The Bosphorus Strait, bend by bend: 31 km between two seas, 700 m at its narrowest](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-bosfor/en/): The Bosphorus followed on the map from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara: 31 km, 12 changes of course, 699 m at its narrowest, two currents one above the other and, in 2025, an average of 110 ship passages a day. In Romanian, English and French.
- [Penn Station: the trains stayed, the rooms vanished](https://mariuscomper.uk/penn-station/en/): The route through Penn Station in 1910, demolition in 1963–1966 and the present station: one plan coordinate, different levels, trains still running. The rooms were demolished while the trains kept running — what did the city lose above a station that never closed?
- [How a train steers without a steering wheel](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenul-fara-volan/en/): A train wheel is shaped like a cone, and the shape does the steering. Push a wheelset sideways, watch the wave about ten metres long it draws, then test the idea with two cups.
- [Ice-age footprints at White Sands: someone carried a small child across the mud and walked back](https://mariuscomper.uk/white-sands-footprints/): Two lines of ice-age footprints in New Mexico, at least 1.5 km long, show someone small hurrying across slippery mud with a child probably under three, then walking back hours later. Carry the child along the trail, switch hips, set them down when they wriggle, then walk back over a mammoth’s and a giant sloth’s tracks.
- [First railway in Romania: 1854 or 1869? Oravița–Baziaș, Bucharest–Giurgiu and the three meanings of “first”](https://mariuscomper.uk/prima-cale-ferata-romania/en/): The press calls two different lines “the first railway in Romania”. Choose what “first” means and watch the answer change, then ride the real 1854 track, which leaves today’s Romania and comes back.
- [Place of the day: guess where in Romania from the terrain alone](https://mariuscomper.uk/locul-zilei/en/): See only the relief around a place in Romania and take six guesses to find it on the map.
- [London's stations keep a diary: 434 Tube, DLR, Overground and Elizabeth line stations, every day since 2019](https://mariuscomper.uk/london-station-diary/): Daily tap counts at 434 London stations, January 2019 to September 2026, wound into rings: one ring per year, one slice per day. Southfields lights up for Wimbledon, Arsenal station follows the fixture list, Ladbroke Grove has no row on Carnival days, and on Christmas Day TfL counts zero Tube journeys. Pick your station and a date of your own.
- [How much for a mile? — London hackney coaches, 1654–1832](https://mariuscomper.uk/hackney-coach/en/): Price ten fares across four dated runs — an Exchange run of 1655, a lawyer's shilling of 1662, two admeasured miles of 1715, a GPO circle of 1832 — then judge who the paper meter served, on two dated proof rails.
- [The church that walked away on rails](https://mariuscomper.uk/dealul-uranus/en/): In Constitution Square, the People's House does not fit inside one photograph. Underneath it there was once a neighbourhood — sloping streets, villas, churches — and one of the churches did not die: it walked away on rails and is waiting behind the blocks. Pull it yourself, metre by metre. In Romanian and English.
- [The wall that kept its wounds](https://mariuscomper.uk/zidul-de-la-sant-felip-neri/en/): In Barcelona's quietest square, a church wall is full of small holes: shrapnel from 30 January 1938. You touch each scar and the morning comes back, minute by minute — down to the name the regime tried to give it. In Romanian, English, Spanish and Catalan.
- [What were your hands worth in 1888? A working day in Spitalfields](https://mariuscomper.uk/spitalfields/en/): A reconstructed working day in a Spitalfields garret: treadle the 1888 sewing machine, the sun crosses the weaver's window, and the day pays you from the documented wage — 12 shillings and sixpence a week — plus four peoples on one street.
- [The hand at the top](https://mariuscomper.uk/turnul-de-oameni/en/): A human tower stands in the square, at La Mercè in Barcelona. You climb it by scrolling, crown it by raising your hand — like the enxaneta — then come down and lend your shoulders to the base, to the pinya. In Romanian, English, Spanish and Catalan.
- [The river under Fleet Street: four maps, one burial](https://mariuscomper.uk/fleet/en/): The Fleet from Hampstead to the Thames: eight beats of the course, a four-map dated slider (1559–1896), twelve acts of the burial, and ten traces to walk.
- [They set off for the North Pole by balloon in 1897. Their film was developed in 1930](https://mariuscomper.uk/balonul-lui-andree/en/): Andrée, Strindberg and Frænkel flew for 65 hours, came down on the ice 786 kilometres from the Pole and walked for almost two months while the ice carried them south-east. Their route on the map, from the diaries found in 1930, Strindberg's photographs developed 33 years later, and what is and is not known about how they died.
- [Bucharest Specialty Coffee: 193 Cafés and Roasteries on the Map](https://mariuscomper.uk/cafea-bucuresti/en/): The complete Bucharest specialty-coffee map: 193 cafés and 19 roasteries, verified, with addresses, areas and sources. From Origo (2013) to world roasting champions.
- [From Rouen to Antioch: a map of the Norman world, 911–1185](https://mariuscomper.uk/normanzii-in-europa/en/): 36 places where the sources attest the Normans, from Hastings to Palermo and Antioch — each with its evidence grade. The farthest, Antioch, lies 3,177 km from Rouen. Type your town and see how close they came.
- [Where did the Vikings go? 120 sourced places in Europe, 793–1066](https://mariuscomper.uk/vikingii-in-europa/en/): A map of 120 places where Scandinavians are placed by the sources, from Dublin to Seville and from Kyiv to the Caspian. Each is graded by how we know. Type your town to see the nearest.
- [The metro they built without asking Moscow](https://mariuscomper.uk/metroul-din-bucuresti/en/): Rejected by Moscow in 1952, opened with 6 stations in 1979: the decision, the digging, the first train, today's network.
- [Nikitin in India, 1466–1472: the Tver merchant beyond three seas](https://mariuscomper.uk/nikitin-in-india/en/): Afanasy Nikitin left Tver in 1466 and reached India 29 years before da Gama. His route mapped, his six Easters, what he saw, chapter by chapter.
- [Ibn Battuta's travels mapped, 1325–1354](https://mariuscomper.uk/ibn-battuta/en/): Ibn Battuta, from Tangier to Kilwa, Constantinople, Delhi, the Maldives, China and Mali: 108,800 kilometres, measured on the map.
- [Egeria: a woman's pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Sinai and Edessa, 381–384](https://mariuscomper.uk/egeria/en/): Egeria, a woman from the far west of the Empire, wrote home to her friends about three years in the Holy Land. The text, found in Arezzo in 1884, on the map.
- [Pytheas: rebuilt from the quotations of people who doubted him](https://mariuscomper.uk/pytheas/en/): Pytheas's book on Britain and Thule was lost more than 2,000 years ago. What survives of it comes only from the quotations of the people who argued with him.
- [Harald Hardrada: the route from Stiklestad to Kyiv, Constantinople and Stamford Bridge, nineteen days before Hastings](https://mariuscomper.uk/harald-hardrada/en/): The 1030-1066 route on the map: from Stiklestad to Kyiv, the Byzantine guard in Sicily, an escape over an iron chain, and the throne of Norway, to the field at Stamford Bridge.
- [Hanseatic trade in England: Bergen, the Steelyard, King's Lynn and Boston, c. 1380](https://mariuscomper.uk/hansa/en/): Bergen, London's Steelyard, King's Lynn and Boston: four stops of a 14th-century Hanseatic trade through England. The real cargo, stop by stop, isn't what you'd guess.
- [John Leland: Henry VIII's unfinished commission](https://mariuscomper.uk/john-leland/en/): John Leland spent a decade travelling England and Wales on a royal commission and a thousand questions. He filled 11 notebook Parts. His mind was failing by 1547, and the promised book was never written.
- [Around the World with Pigafetta: the journal of the first circumnavigation, 1519–1522](https://mariuscomper.uk/in-jurul-lumii-pigafetta/en/): Antonio Pigafetta wrote down the whole voyage: the strait, the starvation in the Pacific, Magellan's death at Mactan, the day lost at the date line. The only complete eyewitness account of the first circumnavigation, on the map.
- [Celia Fiennes: 1,551 miles across England, 1698](https://mariuscomper.uk/celia-fiennes/en/): Celia Fiennes travelled for her health, by coach at first and later on her own horses. Her own journal puts her in 39 of England's 40 historic counties, all but Monmouthshire.
- [Nicolae Milescu (Spathari) in Beijing, 1676: why the tsar’s envoy left without the Kangxi Emperor’s letter](https://mariuscomper.uk/milescu-in-china/en/): The tsar’s envoy to the Kangxi Emperor was a Moldavian boyar. The embassy’s report and the Qing court record, set side by side day by day along a Kangxi-period painted scroll of Beijing: who laid the letter on the table, how the envoy bowed, and why he left without a reply.
- [Evliya Çelebi in Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania (1659–1661): what he counted and where he exaggerated](https://mariuscomper.uk/evliya-celebi/en/): Evliya Çelebi wrote 20,000 houses in Iași and 100,000 people inside Brașov. Here is what the other counts say.
- [A Persian in London, 1809-10 — the diary of Mirza Abul Hassan Khan](https://mariuscomper.uk/un-persan-la-londra/en/): The diary of Mirza Abul Hassan Khan, the Persian envoy who conquered — and sharply judged — London in 1810.
- [Danube Cruise Selector: Routes, Companies and Seasons on the Romanian Leg](https://mariuscomper.uk/croaziera-dunarii/en/): One Romanian Danube as the base, sold six ways by three companies (one detours to the sea): an 11-day cruise-tour, an 8-day short sailing, 12-day / 14-night full transits. Route, company and season compared, with sailing months and dated fares, so you leave with a route plus a company plus a month.
- [Dinicu Golescu's European travels, 1824–1826: what a Wallachian boyar saw and what he wrote about home](https://mariuscomper.uk/dinicu-golescu/en/): Lanterns burning all night in Vienna, Swiss peasants reading newspapers and, at home, men held in the sun under a beam over taxes. Dinicu Golescu's travel book, on a map.
- [Carpini and Rubruck: two friars at the Great Khan's court after the 1241 Mongol invasion (1245–1255)](https://mariuscomper.uk/calugari-la-hanul-mongol/en/): Carpini and Rubruck, two Franciscans at the Mongol court after the 1241 invasion: Güyük's letter, Karakorum, the Parisian goldsmith and the debate held on the khan's orders.
- [Vikings were felling trees in America in 1021. How can anyone know the exact year?](https://mariuscomper.uk/vikingii-in-america/en/): The Greenlanders' saga and Erik the Red's saga tell the same story, contradict each other, and give no year. A dig at the northern tip of Newfoundland shows that Norse people camped there, but does not tell us what they called it. A measurement published in 2021, on three worked pieces of wood from that camp, gives the year: the trees were cut in 1021.
- [What was the Orient Express doing in Romania? 1883–2009](https://mariuscomper.uk/orient-express/en/): Giurgiu 1883, Bucharest sleepers, the 1977 farewell. Three lines to Istanbul and the Express's Romanian century.
- [Seven people who drew the world · Medieval explorers](https://mariuscomper.uk/en/medieval-explorers/): From Vinland to Beijing and Karakorum to the Cape of Good Hope: seven true medieval journeys, drawn on the map step by step. Replay their routes and stamp your logbook.
- [Did Marco Polo go to China? His book, set beside the Chinese records](https://mariuscomper.uk/marco-polo/en/): A Chinese entry of 1290 names the same three envoys as Marco Polo, though not Marco. Nine passages of the book stand beside Chinese texts about the same things: the fee on worn banknotes, couriers with bells, the cowries of Yunnan, the siege engines at Xiangyang. With the route of 1271–1295 on the map, what the book leaves out and a ten-question quiz.
- [Chinese medieval explorers: seven journeys from China to India, Baghdad, Paris and Africa (399–1433)](https://mariuscomper.uk/exploratori-chinezi/en/): Faxian, Xuanzang, Du Huan, Changchun, Rabban Bar Sauma, Zhou Daguan and Zheng He: seven journeys out of China between 399 and 1433, on one map, with what they wrote about what they saw.
- [Six UNESCO Dacian fortresses, one ticket office. The other five you reach on foot.](https://mariuscomper.uk/cetati-dacice/en/): A map of the six Dacian fortresses in the Orăștie Mountains shows road and walking access, elevation gain, time needed, opening hours, tickets and each site's condition.
- [Everyone goes to Viscri and Biertan. There are 160 more fortified churches, and at most of them you phone for the key.](https://mariuscomper.uk/biserici-fortificate/en/): A map of Transylvania's 162 fortified churches includes the seven UNESCO villages, heritage class, published opening hours, keyholder contact and damaged buildings.
- [The “Old Man of the Carpathians” is 900 years old in the papers and about 560 by radiocarbon dating. The oldest dated oak in Romania stands 190 kilometres to the north.](https://mariuscomper.uk/cei-mai-batrani-arbori/en/): A map of Romania's oldest trees: 5,703 measured ancient trees with species, girth, county and indicative age, the four radiocarbon-dated oaks and three other dated trees, and the centuries-old tree nearest to you.
- [UNESCO counted 277 points along Rome's Dacian frontier. Only a few can be visited, with a ticket.](https://mariuscomper.uk/frontiera-dacica/en/): A map of Roman archaeological sites open to the public in Romania, including Porolissum, Drobeta and Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, with opening hours, tickets and sources.
- [Unified Romanian Passenger Rail GTFS Archive](https://mariuscomper.uk/gtfs-feroviar/en/): Romania's passenger train timetable by station and route, with downloads as GTFS, SQLite and GeoJSON. Timetable valid until 12 December 2026.
- [Hadrian's Wall, mile by mile: what survives and where to stop](https://mariuscomper.uk/hadrians-wall/en/): An end-to-end guide to Hadrian's Wall with its measured elevation profile, forts, milecastles, turrets and car-free connections, together with the limits of the available data.
- [Spectacular railway tunnels and viaducts – map](https://mariuscomper.uk/tuneluri-feroviare/en/): Map of Romania's railway tunnels and viaducts: Teliu, Caracău, Oravița–Anina, the Jiu Gorge and the Ormeniș and Homorod works.
- [Transfagarasan: Is It Open? Season Dates, Transalpina Too](https://mariuscomper.uk/transfagarasan/en/): Is the Transfagarasan open now? Opening and closing dates 2015–2026, Transalpina comparison, altitude profile, fuel, the Balea cable car, and what to do when it's closed.
- [Romania Salt Mines: Turda, Praid, Slanic or Cacica? Prices, Hours, Verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/saline/en/): Which Romanian salt mine is worth it? 2026 prices and hours for Turda, Praid, Slanic Prahova and Cacica, depth, temperature, what's inside each, and a verdict per traveler. Praid is temporarily closed.
- [Painted Monasteries of Bucovina: 1–2 Day Route, Measured Distances](https://mariuscomper.uk/manastiri-pictate/en/): Voronet, Humor, Moldovita, Sucevita, Arbore: what to see at each, published hours, service times to avoid, and the optimal route with measured driving distances from Gura Humorului or Suceava.
- [Which Romanian castle to visit? Bran, Peleș, Corvin: tickets, hours, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/castele-de-vizitat/en/): Bran, Peleș, Corvin, Râșnov, Făgăraș, Cantacuzino: adult tickets, official hours, closed days and the best day trip from Brașov, Sibiu or Sinaia, with measured road distances.
- [Skiing in Romania 2025–2026: Poiana, Sinaia, Păltiniș, Azuga, Bușcat — passes, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/schi-romania/en/): 5 ski areas compared: 1-day pass, slope count, night skiing and measured access from Bucharest, Brașov, Sibiu, Cluj. Official 2025–2026 prices.
- [Thermal baths in Romania: Felix, Sovata, Herculane, Covasna, Tușnad — prices, verdict](https://mariuscomper.uk/spa-romania/en/): 5 spa resorts compared: water type, entry price, treatment base and measured access from Oradea, Cluj, Brașov, Bucharest. Official tariffs.
- [Danube Delta: ARBDD permits, Navrom Tulcea–Sulina timetables, 2026 fares](https://mariuscomper.uk/delta-dunarii/en/): The Delta access permit (5/15/30 lei), car, boat, fishing and photo permits, plus Navrom timetables from Tulcea to Sulina, Sfântu Gheorghe and Mila 23.
- [Mocanita Romania: Viseu, Sovata, Moldovita — 2026 fares and timetable](https://mariuscomper.uk/mocanita/en/): Steam compared: Viseu de Sus (136 lei, 6 h), Sovata (80 lei, 2 h), Moldovita–Argel (60 lei) and Vatra (30 lei). 2026 programs and measured drives.
- [Show caves Romania: Ialomita, Polovragi, Comarnic — 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/pesteri/en/): Three caves with official fares: Ialomita (30 lei, all year), Polovragi (20 lei, daily), Comarnic (35 lei, Apr–Oct, min group 5). Hours and measured drives.
- [Bucharest museums: Village, Antipa, Ceausescu House, MNAR, MNIR, Parliament — 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/muzee-bucuresti/en/): Six museums with official fares: Village, Antipa, Ceausescu House, MNAR, MNIR, Parliament. Hours and measured access.
- [Danube Cazane gorge: Orsova cruises, museum, 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/cazane-dunarii/en/): The Danube gorge with published fares: Orsova cruises T5/T6 (80–120 lei), charter 720 lei, Iron Gates Museum (40 lei). Hours and measured drives.
- [Romanian seaside 2026: Mamaia, Constanta, Eforie, Costinesti, Vama Veche, Corbu — fares and access](https://mariuscomper.uk/litoral/en/): Six resorts, official fares where published: Casino 53 lei, Dolphinarium 74.37, Aqua Magic closed in September, bridge 13 lei. Measured access from Bucharest.
- [Transalpina DN67C: south or north gate, segments, measured times, 2026 rules](https://mariuscomper.uk/transalpina/en/): How to drive Transalpina: Novaci or Sebes by base, 134.7 km / 3h39 traverse with no stops, measured segments, Ranca–Curpat 30 km/h, closed at night.
- [Maramures 2026: Sighet, Sapanta, Viseu, Borsa, Barsana, Baia Mare — fares and access](https://mariuscomper.uk/maramures/en/): What to see in Maramures: Sighet Memorial 25 lei, Planetarium 20, Mineralogy 20, Sapanta with no official fare, Mocanita in the dedicated guide. Measured access.
- [Medieval cities 2026: Sibiu, Brasov, Sighisoara — which, fares, access](https://mariuscomper.uk/orase-medievale/en/): Which medieval city: Sibiu with ASTRA 50 and Brukenthal 50, Brasov with the Black Church 20 RON and Art 12, Sighisoara UNESCO with no official fares. Measured access.
- [Via Transilvanica 2026: planner — 8 lands, gates, GPX, free guides](https://mariuscomper.uk/via-transilvanica/en/): How to plan Via Transilvanica: Maior Putna–Drobeta 1,392.8 km measured, 8 lands with dated GPX, free guides, 3 gates with measured road access.
- [Romania Schengen Visa 2026: Interactive Guide for Chinese Passport Holders](https://mariuscomper.uk/viza-schengen-china/en/): Chinese passport holders can check where to apply and which documents to prepare for a trip to Romania. The guide follows the EU’s harmonised list for China and reflects Romania’s Schengen membership since 1 January 2025.
- [Dracula: Six Places, Myth vs Record](https://mariuscomper.uk/dracula-mit-sau-realitate/en/): Is Bran worth it? Stoker never visited Romania, and the novel never names Bran. Six places graded by evidence — archive (Targoviste), disputed tradition (Snagov), late materialization (Borgo) — with a visit router.
- [Ceausescu Bucharest: House, Square, Palace in One Day](https://mariuscomper.uk/bucurestiul-ceausescu/en/): Ceaușescu's House, Revolution Square and the Palace of Parliament in one day: booking rules, official tariffs, leg distances, four December 1989 dates and a trilingual glossary.
- [A Romanian, a ship, and the first Antarctic winter: Racoviță and the Belgica (1897–1899)](https://mariuscomper.uk/racovita-belgica/en/): Thirteen months frozen in Antarctic ice. Read the Belgica voyage, then the expedition's photographs.
- [Where Is It? Drop the pin on Romania](https://mariuscomper.uk/unde-i/en/): The game names a place in Romania and you drop the pin where you think it is: 45 places, 10 rounds, scored by kilometres.
- [Hours to Kill at Bucharest Airport? Stay or Go: OTP Transit, Entry, City](https://mariuscomper.uk/escala-bucuresti/en/): For a Bucharest airport layover, compare staying in the terminal, visiting the city or staying overnight. Check transit and entry rules, then compare measured train, bus and taxi times.
- [Where to Drink Romanian Wine: DOC Regions, the Recaș Visit, Tasting in Five Steps](https://mariuscomper.uk/vinuri-romania/en/): Browse Romania’s 35 DOC wine regions, check Recaș visitor packages and booking rules, and follow Cotnari’s five-step tasting method.
- [Trains in Romania: CFR Tickets, Six Trunk Routes, and the Truth About Delays](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenuri-cfr/en/): Learn how to buy CFR tickets and compare six routes checked on 25 September 2026. The guide covers sleeper and bicycle fares, plus the European rules for delay compensation.
- [The Merry Cemetery Decoded: What Săpânța's Painted Crosses Say](https://mariuscomper.uk/cimitirul-vesel/en/): Read the Romanian inscriptions on nine painted crosses from Săpânța alongside working Chinese and English translations. Each entry separates what the text says from interpretations the sources cannot confirm.
- [Carpathian Bears: The Libearty Sanctuary and Field Ethics](https://mariuscomper.uk/observare-ursi/en/): Compare visits to the Libearty sanctuary with bear-safety rules in Piatra Craiului National Park. The guide also gives a preliminary estimate from the 2025 survey and two routes from Brașov; wild sightings cannot be guaranteed.
- [The Romanian Menu Decoded: 30 Dishes, the Bill, and Flags](https://mariuscomper.uk/meniul-romanesc/en/): Explore 30 dishes from three Bucharest menus, with names, ingredients and allergen information. The guide also explains restaurant bills and tipping.
- [Romania's Digital-Nomad and Work Visas: A Chinese-Passport Guide](https://mariuscomper.uk/viza-nomad-digital/en/): Three tracks separated: the nomad's ten papers, the 3× wage math, work with the employer first. Every legal sentence with its article; the sorter gives FIT/HOLD bands, never verdicts; not legal advice.
- [Birds of the Delta: Seasons, Species, and Ethics](https://mariuscomper.uk/pasari-delta-dunarii/en/): See when 24 Delta birds migrate or nest, explore three suggested trips, and read the visitor guidelines. The guide has no current population estimates and cannot predict what you will see.
- [Authentic Souvenirs: Horezu Ceramics and the Ie Blouse](https://mariuscomper.uk/suveniruri-autentice/en/): Learn what to check when buying Horezu ceramics or an ie blouse with altiță embroidery: sourced signs, warning signs and questions to ask at a market. Prices are dated and sourced.
- [Trajan’s Bridge at Drobeta, rebuilt in 3D (AD 103–105)](https://mariuscomper.uk/podul-lui-traian/en/): Cross the Danube on Apollodorus’s bridge, rebuilt on the valley’s real terrain with the river lowered below today’s reservoir, then watch Hadrian and the centuries take it down to the pier stumps. What is known is marked apart from what is rebuilt.
- [Why did a shepherd walk to Rome? 1849–1911](https://mariuscomper.uk/badea-cartan/en/): Cârțișoara 1849, Rome 1896, Sinaia 1911: the shepherd who carried a library over the mountains, then walked 43 days to Trajan's Column.
- [Who were the Greeks who lived in Romania for a thousand years? c. 630 BC – 1914](https://mariuscomper.uk/histria/en/): Miletus, the silver drachma, the AD 100 boundary. Four chapters and a map that silts as you read.
- [Transnistria: travel advice, entry and transport from Romania](https://mariuscomper.uk/transnistria-din-romania/en/): The UK Foreign Office advises against travel to Transnistria, and the latest readable Romanian advisory recommends avoiding the region. The guide explains entry procedures and transport via Chișinău.
- [Seven Roads to Romania: Which Path Fits You, and Which Myths to Ignore](https://mariuscomper.uk/sapte-drumuri/en/): A relocation router: 3 questions route you onto one of 7 legal roads — D/AM1, D/AM2, Blue Card, study, digital nomad, reunification, business. Each road with documents, the first official step, and the lie that traps most people.
- [North Is Not a Place](https://mariuscomper.uk/nordul-nu-e-un-loc/en/): An interactive explainer about the gap between north on a map and north in a compass needle.
- [DRD4-7R and "wanderlust gene"](https://mariuscomper.uk/drd4-wanderlust/en/): A critical synthesis of DRD4-7R, novelty, migration, culture and the only direct tourism study found in this research register.
- [Where do Romania's airports fly? Every airport's destinations, 2001–2024](https://mariuscomper.uk/panoul-de-plecari/en/): The destinations of every Romanian airport, 2001–2024, from Eurostat. Luton has been the country's top destination since 2015. Pick an airport and a year and read the departures board; every airport has its own page with all its routes.
- [A day on the rails — Romania's train graph](https://o-zi-pe-sine.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Every line is a train. A whole day becomes one image.
- [The travellers’ calendar: who was on the road at the same time, from Pytheas to Voyager 1](https://mariuscomper.uk/calendarul-calatorilor/en/): The journeys from 26 stories on this site, from Pytheas to Voyager 1, on one calendar you scroll through. Their travellers were rarely on the road at the same time: four times in more than 2,300 years, and only once with the day certain at both ends, in August 1897.
- [100 places in Romania you won't find anywhere else in the world](https://mariuscomper.uk/o-suta-de-locuri-unice/en/): An interactive bilingual atlas of 100 singular places, natural anomalies, ice caves, archaic relics, and unique engineering in Romania with map and documented cards.
- [How many airports does Romania have? Map of all 17 (2025)](https://mariuscomper.uk/aeroporturi-romania/en/): Romania has 17 airports in its passenger traffic statistics. See them on a map, ranked by 2025 passengers, and find the airport nearest to your town.
- [Where was Vlad, really?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cetatea-poenari/en/): Bran said: not here. At the end of 1,480 concrete steps, on Mount Cetățuia at 850 metres, stands the fortress tradition and archaeology attribute to Vlad the Impaler: a 14th-century tower, a 15th-century building. Climb the steps in 3D, then grade the legends.
- [London Sunset Times 2026–27: When It Gets Dark and the Clocks Go Back](https://mariuscomper.uk/london-sunset-times/): Sunset, sunrise and twilight times for London through 2026–27, the clocks going back on 25 October, and how many of your weekday journeys home start after sunset.

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