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Some September fun with and back home with the kids 🥳

🍰 Nothing beats fun stand mates like
🍀 Or getting lost in the Medina on the way to the final party 😆
🛫 Or taking three flights each way between Timisoara and Marrakech
🏎️ And the go karting experience I had with the kids having flashbacks of university days and

Before August fully disappears in the rearview mirror, here’s a peek at some of our summer adventures:

💍 Celebrating two dear friends’ wedding in the heart of Transylvania at Ugron Castle.
🍝 Endless orecchiette + swims in both the Adriatic and Ionian seas while in Puglia.
💃 A trip back to the 70s for a friend’s 50th — all the way in Lisbon.

To great friends, delicious meals, wild adventures, and love — especially for the two blondes in my house and .spiac . Life together = bliss.

New haircut, flower shopping and some recent delicious dishes I had .maia 🥗🥙🍅

What have you been up to? 😅

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April in a few snapshots:
☕️ Great coffee (and sweet treats) in beautiful places .ar .cafe
✨ A new discovery: cross-stitching. Thanks to 🫶🏻
❤️ The first ever kick-off brunch in Transylvania with many, many BD family members from all over Romania.
✍️ More writing and reading for inspiration
💄 Two team activities just perfect for the first days of spring. See the results from one soon 🤫

PS: if you want to get more insights into what running a small travel agency as a mom of two in her early 40s chasing also more ease, freedom and joy in her life, I write weekly newsletters on www.ralucaspiac.com 💌

The story of a glorious weekend in Hamburg with 2 of the 4 sisters from another mister: food, coffee, a protest, some mindset work, .st.pauli and ❤️

Spring is around the corner. Or already here? 🍀

Winter is slowing getting ready to leave the stage for spring. Have we learned everything we could from this season of cold, darkness and introspection? ❄️

I wonder. 💭

In a world where we say that time flies, being in nature and taking time to truly notice it is medicine. 🫶🏻

Maramures, land of wooden churches and traditions is in the travel press. 🥰

Book your trip to Romania now. We are here to help you with exactly that 😉



https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/feb/04/fairytale-world-of-maramures-the-romania-time-forgot

It’s been a while since I made it last to a concert and thanks to last night it happened: directed the playing both American and Romanian compositions.

And what a joy that was! 🥰

Neither in the US nor in Romania are people navigating an easy period but navigating we are. And just like Robert said, very much in the spirit of both Thanksgiving and Romania’s National Day (tomorrow), music is a language we all understand and that unites. ❤️

I loved how at the end the carefully arranged orchestra stood up to shake hands and exchange hugs. And I loved that so many in the audience felt that Enescu’s Rapsodia Romana 1 was brought to life by Robert.

It might not feel like it but I sense it’s the right time to stock on hope and faith, to look for what unites us, not what divides us, to keep calm. 🫶🏻

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ⭕️

Aristotle said, I am living it every time I look at the team in the office and the team of guides and partners we work with at ❤️

It’s our annual guide meet at and while painting pieces of a bigger picture ( is the creative mind behind this 🥰) it hit me: we are so much more than individuals working together.

We are a community, a village, a universe where we can be authentic, vulnerable, real. And that’s so precious and rare, yet so powerful and magical.

Counting my blessings today and every day I get to be a part of this business 🙏

I am not a stranger to the dark
“Hide away, “ they say
“’Cause we don’t want your broken parts”
I’ve learned to be ashamed of all my scars
“Run away, “ they say
“No one’ll love you as you are”
But I won’t let them break me down to dust
I know that there’s a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown ‘em out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I’m meant to be, this is me
Look out ‘cause here I come
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me.

This song by says it all.