Haus am Eck

02/08/2018

Mesendorf, after slow cycling, palinca and lunch in the barn.
with Oli Broom , Clemmie Broom and Szabolcs Tyukodi

30/07/2018

Cristian Cismaru e unul dintre oamenii care se întoarce spre sat cu respect și responsabilitate. „Am fost foarte mult timp prin sate. Îmi plac poveștile cu oameni buni care au ce să arate”. De la t…

25/06/2018

In love with our new map of Saxon Transylvania - showing all our favourite villages - by the brilliant

01/06/2018

https://www.romania-insider.com/british-magazine-explains-why-romania-is-europes-most-overlooked-destination/

A recent article in the online edition of British magazine The Spectator looks at what makes Romania the most overlooked of European holiday destination.

03/05/2018

Transylvanian Brunch la Meschendorf, aprilie 2018.

Cel mai frumos loc din sat, gazde harnice și creative, vreme de vară, voluntari mulți și entuziaști, mâncare locală de sezon tare gustoasă și lume faină! Așa a fost sâmbătă 28.04.18. Pozele minunate ca întotdeauna de la Gabriela Cuzepan ;)

18/04/2018

Detalii despre evenimentele noastre din luna aprilie, brunch-uri și picnicuri cu drumeție:

https://mailchi.mp/4480754bd03e/evenimente-de-cultura-gastronomica-aprilie-2018

09/12/2017

Best map.

In love with our new map of Saxon Transylvania - showing all our favourite villages - by the brilliant

29/10/2017

On remote hillsides above ancient villages sacked by Romans, Tatars and Turks flourish the elusive blooms of crocus banaticus

29/04/2017

"Around the village of Mesendorf later that afternoon, the riot of wildflowers – purple viper’s grass, hairy flax, Siberian bellflower, Charterhouse pink and sword-leaved fleabane among them – was almost overpowering."

he evening sun cast long shadows over Viscri’s main street, which sloped upwards towards the grand, white-walled, 13th-century church. In a scene that has been repeated every evening in summer since around 1150, a herd of cows nonchalantly blocked the road, having been guided down from the high mead...

30/11/2016

18/11/2016

12/08/2016

Von schlechter Architektur kann man eigentlich erst seit dem großen Bruch am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts sprechen, als die Baumeister der Moderne auf die neuen Materialien Beton, Metall und Glas setzten und Flachdächer für das einzig Wahre hielten. Dabei produzierten sie mehr Gebäudeschäden als jemals zuvor. Es gibt moderne Architektur, die erst mit Preisen ausgezeichnet und keine 20 Jahre später schon wieder abgerissen wurde.

Auf Reisen zeigt sich, was die meisten Menschen von der Baukunst der Gegenwart halten: nichts. Am liebsten besuchen sie Altstädte, Kathedralen, Schlösser und die Quartiere des 19. Jahrhunderts.

27/06/2016

Still in love with everything here

20/05/2016

Oli & Clemmie, welcome in Meschendorf:
Storygram #1: Living In A Medieval Transylvanian Village
I asked my wife if she would mind leaving London and renting somewhere in Transylvania for the summer. Her answer, to my delight, was “yes.”

That is why this photo was taken. On our first morning as part-time inhabitants of the tiny Saxon village of Mesendorf (population, 80) we climbed out of the plum and apple orchard at the bottom of the garden until we could see the 14th Century fortified church and, beyond it, the rolling pastures that would soon be carpeted with clover, cowslips, hellebore and wild orchids.

Our simple 19th Century house - with two log stoves for cooking, a vegetable garden, vines, an orchard, plenty of old Saxon furniture, an open barn and no TV - is in the foreground, beneath the church’s spire. It is a Hansel & Gretel type of place that feels a million miles from London. The peace and quiet, occasionally interrupted by owls, cow bells, cuckoos and a rogue shepherd who likes to guide his flock through our garden, took some getting used to. But with one room set aside as ‘Slow Cyclist HQ’ until we return to London later this year and a woodpile that Swiss Family Robinson would be proud of, we now feel very much at home.

http://www.theslowcyclist.co.uk/blog/?platform=hootsuite

05/02/2016

With ancient forests, high mountains and Unesco-protected villages where life hasn’t changed for centuries, Transylvania offers one of Europe’s last great wildernesses, and plenty of fascinating history and culture, too. Adventure doesn’t need to be fast-paced; British firm The Slow Cyclist has new group and independent trips for 2016, lasting from three days to three weeks. Its four-day Enchanted Saxon Transylvania trip covers 90 miles, from the Saxon village of Cund south-east to Viscri at an unhurried pace with plenty of time to stop at local homes, visit shepherds on hilltops and discover little-visited historic sites.
• From £875pp, with meals and accommodation in traditional cottages, but not flights, theslowcyclist.co.uk.
Wizz Air flies to Bucharest from several UK airports
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/17/top-10-europe-adventure-holidays
From Cund to Viscri, with a refreshing stop in Meschendorf. Thank you Oli Broom

13/12/2015

07/12/2015

Today in Meschendorf. :-)

19/11/2015

Nea Janos, pe banca, cu biciul. Meschendorf. :-)
with Simon Brown.

GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND UK INVITES YOU TO A DEBATE: ‘Can what remains of the Saxon communities be preserved as treasured relics in the 21st Century?’ The sustainability of what remains of the Saxon villages’ way of life is questionable in today’s world as the communities are increasingly exposed to “…

19/11/2015

From Viscri / Deutsch-Weisskirch to Sighisoara / Schässburg. :-)

02/09/2015

Breakfast at Haus am Eck.

“This tablecloth though. (Last morning in Romania garden and fridge clear out.)”

02/09/2015

Amy Merrick: Picking plums and grapes at Haus Am Eck. Any house that comes stocked with an orchard and fully planted vegetable garden (and a fridge with milk, butter and cheese from, literally, the cow next door) is 👌 by me. https://instagram.com/p/6io_koMMhm/?taken-by=amy_merrick

“Picking plums and grapes at Haus Am Eck. Any house that comes stocked with an orchard and fully planted vegetable garden (and a fridge with milk, butter…”

02/09/2015

Amy Merrick : I'm staying in the most exquisitely simple, restored Saxon farmhouse in a tiny country village in Transylvania for my last two nights here. By chance I met the owner in her antique store in town and she mentioned she had a old house with an orchard and garden that she rented out. FATE. 'Haus Am Eck' in Mesendorf, you turned my world upside down.

:-)

“I'm staying in the most exquisitely simple, restored Saxon farmhouse in a tiny country village in Transylvania for my last two nights here. By chance I…”

20/07/2015

06/07/2015

Meschendorf - lunch under the wallnut tree. :-) With Tom Hanslien and Oli Broom. Thank you.

We were recently asked by the Global Heritage Fund UK to lead a small group of their friends and supporters on an architectural discovery of the Saxon villages of Transylvania. One of their guests, Chris Wills, was kind enough to summarise his feelings for the journey, and the place, in an email sho…

09/06/2015

09/06/2015

Slow Cyclist guides Cornel and Sergiu enjoy an epic and well-earned lunch in a meadow above Monica Popovici's house in

09/06/2015

Forget Dracula - Transylvania has so much more to offer, and what better way to explore the stunning Carpathian landscape than by bicycle.

03/04/2015

We make butter and cheese with Lavinia Schuster!

13/02/2015

Asociatia Monumentum: brosura cu exemple pozitive despre modul in care se poate amenaja o cladire veche. Aici sunt si pozele cu Haus am Eck. :-)

Verein "Monumentum": Broschuere mit guten Beispielen von Moeglichkeiten die alten Haeusern einzurichten. Da gibt es auch Fotos von Haus am Eck.

Booklet with good examples of redecoration of old houses. Here are also pictures from Haus am Eck.