After having lunch in a restaurant in the city \u2013 which was actually pretty good –\u00a0 we went to the centre, where our accommodation was located. Our hosts were the NGO Care2Travel, which also hosts ESC volunteers. Having left our stuff and met our hosts, we went to have a coffee, after which we took a walk around the city centre, visited the Christmas market\u00a0 (after all, you can`t spell adventure without advent), and tried the k\u00fcrt\u0151skal\u00e1cs<\/em> (known in English as the chimney cake, and in Romanian as cozonac<\/em>), a traditional Sz\u00e9kely cake. As it was pretty big, we split it among us, and, I can say, really enjoyed it!
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In\u00a0 the evening, we joined some of the Ciuc volunteers in their activity \u2013 playing board games in a local caf\u00e9. We played with Dixit cards, which required of us to use our imagination \u2013 each round, one of the players had to choose a topic, and all of us had to choose a card we thought represented the topic best; at the end of each round, we voted for the cards we thought represented the topic the best.<\/p>
Following the game night, we took a quick snack at a fast food nearby, and went to a bar, where we had a few drinks, played table football and even met some locals. After this bar closed, some of us went on to visit some nightclubs, where we had the opportunity to enjoy listening to some manele hits and mingle with the locals a bit more.
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The long night was followed by a short, yet surprisingly effective sleep, and I went to visit the city museum, located in the M\u00edko castle. The museum hosts several expositions. Some of them are temporary, such as the exposition on beer-brewing culture in Hungary and Transylvania, or the sabretache plate exposition, which was opened just on the day when I visited the museum. However, the most important exposition in the museum is probably the permanent one, which documents the history of the city, from prehistorical times all the way up to the fall of communism.
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Saturday afternoon, some of us went to the cinema and watched Wonka, a film showing the origin story of the famous character Willy Wonka, originally from Roald Dahl`s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We found the film really enjoyable, especially considering that in Cristur, we do not have so many opportunities to go to the cinema and see movies in their full, cinemagical glory.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ata-ro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1-1024x768.jpeg\")
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After this, we headed off to the Lajos V\u00e1k\u00e1r sports hall, where some tried iceskating, while others, like me, felt too clumsy that day, and were satisfied with observing the iceskaters from a safe distance.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ata-ro.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3-768x1024.jpeg\")
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At the venue, we also befriended D\u00e1vid, a young local man working on the food and drinks stand at the hall entrance. He gave us some insight into the life of local youth, and, after finishing the work at the stand, joined us at dinner in a local restaurant. Following the dinner, he invited us to take an inside look into a recently opened club that he is running. We entered the club in an unusual and adventurous way, sneaking into it through a window. As a big party was held in the club the night before, a cleaning was still in progress when we arrived. We hung out with the club employees and our host a bit, and then went on to play some more table football.
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