Pensiunea La Gura Cuptorului

A guesthouse in Văleni, Cahul district, on Strada Ștefan cel Mare · per its own site, in the Lower Prut (Prutul de Jos) reserve area, near Lake Beleu. The site advertises 9 rooms with private bathrooms, though it names only 8 of them, and it also lists 20 beds, 8 bathrooms and 2 living rooms, plus air conditioning, WiFi and free parking. Rooms are named after wedding roles: the room of the bride and groom, of the godparents, of the parents-in-law. Food is home cooking ordered in advance, in two versions per the site, meat or oven-baked fish, served with cabbage rolls in corn husk, oven potatoes, curly pie with sheep cheese, home bread, cozonac and honey. House programmes, again per the site, are a bread-ring baking workshop, a șezătoare (needlework and spinning evening) by the oven, a staged wedding-folklore fragment and a presentation of ritual breads · most need a minimum group of 10 or 20 people, so a couple cannot book them alone. Reviewers write mainly about the host, whom they call Miss Vera and Madam Vera, about the cleanliness and about breakfasts with local produce. One planning detail the site gives a full page of its own: the village lies in the border zone of Moldova, and access requires a free Border Police permit. About 162 km in a straight line from central Chișinău.