The poet made a journey on the root Cernauti-Blaj-Sibiu-Giurgiu-Bucuresti since 1866 until 1869 ,wich helped him to learn
more about the romanian people. In this period he worked at the
National Theatre where he met I.L. Caragiale .He continued to write
in the "Familia" magazine ,and made some translations from German
to Romanian.
From 1869 to 1872 he's a student at Viena .There he met Ioan Slavici and Veronica Micle with who he starts a colaboration at
"Convorbiri literare".
From 1872 to 1874 he's an ordinary student in Berlin.