Last week of March 2018 I was kindly invited by prof. Cristian Ioja to visit the Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies (CCMESI) at the University of Bucarest.  I gave a lecture on remote sensing for applied urban ecology to Master students of environmental studies. Besides strengthening our scientific collaboration concerning grant applications and manuscripts development, I spent wonderful time travelling across the Carpathian mountains in Transilvania, visiting lovely towns like Turda, Sighisoara and Sibiu.  Thank you very much Cristian and Alina for such nice research visit.