Anda Sinaia

Gustavo and I head out to Brasov together. We are taking the InterCity train. I believe this is a European train not part of the Romanian fleet. Once source indicated that they are being used to compete with the Romanian trains to bring up their quality, timing … The IC train is nice. Reservations were required. The seating is nice as is the toilet (by train standards). There is even an electrical outlet ...

... Jason who is in the peace corps and he agreed to host me. I arranged to meet him at his house around 6:30 - 7. I managed to find his place fine and waited for a while, he still had not turned up at 7:30 so I called him and luckily he was just around the corner. When I meet him I noticed straight away that he was a really strange guy. I could tell with in 2 Min's that I was not going to spend another night with him as he was just really odd. He showed ...

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... s my new favorite castle. It also think it might be under a garbage moratoria because there wasn't any. This was strange after driving up off the Brasov-Bucurest highway where the river is literally drowning in human waste (well, not that kind of waste), but you get to Peles and it is so clean and beautiful. Well done Romania. Keep up the effort. And here's a word to you ...

... direct to Brasov, Romania was set to leave at 7pm. At 6:30, no bus, 6:40...6:50...6:55, the *******s cancelled our bus! So there we are, it's 7:00 pm and we don't have a way to get to where we need to be. We went into the bus station and of course the ticket lady only spoke Romanian. Fortunately, there was a man who spoke some English and translated to the ticket lady our situation. The resolution...an overnight bus ...

... but it cost $1.20 to go in and guess what it included... a free tour! How on earth can you pay someone for a tour when we are paying $1.20 a person? Just crazy to think about. So, a little back history I have found out about Romania. Peles Castle was built when Romania was still a monarchy in 1883. In 1947, the king just left (I couldn't get a reason out of the tour guide, I'm guessing he was forced out by communists) and the communists took over. Then in 1989, the revolution ...

Editor's note: Craig has sworn to never start another blog entry with the words, "Today, I..." If he does, he is required to buy a Jojo CD in cash in front of thirty hot girls in the Best Buy near Costco. That will ruin any and all chances of him ever getting a date there again. Hello Transylvania!!! Bucharest was a blast, but I am so excited to be out in the country again. I woke up early and took a train from Bucharest into the Carpathian ...

... to our hotel for overnight in the mountain resort town of Sinaia. We're in our hotel by 6:00pm, and meet an hour later to begin our birthday celebration with a round of drinks at the hotel's beautiful bar. I present a birthday card signed by the group members, and a couple of really wacky gifts: A refrigerator magnet that shows four tough guys in suits with the cautionary inscription "The Gay Mafia - They'll break the legs of your coffee table", and a local ...

Today was really cool. It was a short drive to Brasov, and after we checked into the campsite we went out to Bran Castle (aka Draculas castle). Dracula was actually a man named Vrad Dracul (Dracul means dragon in Romanian) who tortured lots and lots of people (by doing things like boiling them in a pot alive). Thats where Bram Stoker originated his myth of Dracula, but he never (at least not on record) drank blood ...

... felt tired so we returned home and after eating some spaghetty....made by Fabbien( imagine french spaghetty) we watched a coooooooolllllll french movie...made by the guy who created Amelie....the movie is called Delicatesseeeeeeeee....and it is incredible...i reccamnd u to see it in Frech....goddddd.... these frech people are reallyyyyyy fuked up......in a gooood way!!!! See you all people again soooonnnn!!! to partyyyyy big time!!! miss u all!!!!! crazy Hospitality meeting in Bucharest!!!!!!