Iasi, Romania Travel Blogs

Iasi
Aug 20, 2008

Iasi is one of the larger cities of Romania. We got here on the heels of an adventurous car road trip of about 400km, which took about 8 hours to do, due to the vagaries of driving on Romanian roads. It is prettier than Bucharest and has a certain ...

Scaffolding overload
Aug 6, 2007

... . That is, if you can get past the ham-fisted, oppressive civic infrastructure dating from the Communist era. Iasi was once like a "Little Vienna" in Romania, but the 1950s through the 80s saw an enormous amount of its heritage bulldozed in the name of ...

iasii
Apr 8, 2005 (1 photos)

a student town. quiet big in moldova

my town end my country
Jan 20, 2008

hello

Slowest train journey in the world? Possibly
Sep 15, 2008

... ground, I headed out early on Sept. 15. As I mentioned before, Sighet is in the northern most reaches of Romania and my plan was to go to Iasi in the eastern part of the country and then continue on to Moldova. Northern Romania doesn't seem to be on any ...

IASI ON THE BORDER
Sep 11, 2009

... bus driver smokes and chats all the way while people get on and off.  Finally we pull in to Romania’s second largest city, Iasi. The days of cheap budget hotels surrounding the bus station never happened in the old Warsaw Pact apparently.  ...

Gura Humorului to Iasi
Jul 19, 2007 (20 photos)

... wanted to meet up with local from previous day and he had no intention of going to Moldova, so I told him I would catch train to Iasi pronounced Yash so we went back to station. Lehel phoned the guy up and he said he couldn't make it but still he didn't ...

The church going crowd & ciorba de burta
Nov 7, 2007

... , creamy pale yellow. Then I pull up a spoonful of ........... I hadn't the slighest idea. College there were mystery meats, Romania mystery parts. I eventually figured out that is was tripe. The small pieces were okay. I had the leave the largest in the ...

Short visit to friends
Feb 2, 2006

We spent two night there but only Mathieu ans Jean-Phi, good friends, was there... No really party, visiting a bit the city and still so cold!!!!