Three Months in Timișoara: The City I Ended Up In by Accident (And Somehow Didn’t Want to Leave)

by Marco Renzi

I didn’t plan to spend three months in Timișoara.
Honestly, I barely knew where it was beyond “somewhere in Romania, near Hungary, maybe?”. But travel has a sense of humour, and one detour later I found myself unpacking a backpack in a city I had never googled, speaking a language I didn’t understand, and… understanding everyone anyway, because everyone …