The day started the same as any other this week, breakfast and then driving the boys to Doripesco, coming back to Brasov for a coffee and a team pow-wow with Lionel and then driving back to pick the boys and bringing them back for lunch.
However, we had the opportunity to have a meeting with other students from the lycée and and a quick "what do you find interesting about Romania/France" session.

I was astonished to find that there are surveillance cameras in all of the classrooms and the Romanian teachers seemed surprised that we confiscate all mobile phones at the beginning of every lesson:
"Phones in the box please!".
We then enjoyed a guided tour of the bakery and butchery (I ducked out of that one!) workshops at Tara Barsei, a tour of the vegetable gardens and mini orchard and the Vet Nurses training clinic.

The boys tasted a gorgeous looking sweet bread freshly made that morning and helped themselves to the juicy, ripe, red cherries fresh from the trees.

This afternoon, we went into Brasov to take the boys up Mount Tampa (Lionel and I had already reccied this - see the "Behind the Sign blog")

Then it was time to escape the searing heat and enter the Communism Museum.

The museum has a fantastic collection of mid-century furniture and is home to hundreds of stories from the Communist era. Some of the stories are funny, others made me feel quite tearful; stories of Grandads being taken away in the night mixed with recollections from school days. The films depicting life under Ceaucescu were extremely interesting to watch and gave a good insight of how the country went from being extremely productive to people queuing for the most basic food stuffs.

After popping into the supermarket for yet another different brand of lemonade, we drove back to Tara Barsei and I treated myself to a well earned glass of the delicious beverage.