The bears of Transylvania
As the train gained speed out of the station, the architecture transformed from ancient stone walls with russet clay tiles on steep gabled rooflines to what her Austrian friend coined as brutalistic socialist architecture: Dull grey cement apartment buildings, not high enough to be called skyscrapers, but loomingly overbearing, small glass windows, rounded edges and deep overhangs at the entryways that prevent the light from getting in. The damp cold stained the structures so it looked like the buildings were weeping. The train continued to build speed and departed from the city in haste. She was on her way to Brasov, Romania in the Region of Transylvania ringed by The Carpthian Mountains.
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