Best Eastern Hotel Dacia Chisinau

... to ask the ticket agent if my bus was destined to pass thru this republic. So, in the middle of the night, we stopped at the Ukraine-Moldova border, and I was stamped out of Ukraine. I think I went to sleep, or a light doze, and the next thing I knew, we were landing in the capital city of Moldova. I became pretty concerned, because we had not stopped again for the passengers of the bus to stamp ...

... again, particularly one bad Kiefer Sutherland one. There are also lots of corny old Romanian folk song-and-dances like Lawrence Welk, but I settle on one live show called “FOLK YOU” (no, I don’t make this up), in which five thousand Romanians are heard singing along to ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ more than forty-five years after Dylan’s original recording, all in the Romanian language of course. That ...

... by the meandering river Raut. We were dropped off in the adjacent village and made our way atop the headland - we were the only people around, tourists or otherwise so we had a poke around the church and bell tower that were built above the caves looking for the subterranean entrance. This somewhat embarassingly eluded us for well over an hour until from one side of the escarpment we spotted the multi coloured snake of a Moldovan ...

... extendable till 3,20m) with chairs, carpet 3,0x4,0m , nice view on park, Airco power 55m2 Sitting area : sofa combination 3 + 1 + 1 + "pouf", low table 80x80cm, tv table with new 72cm TV LG, video and DVD player, nice solid carpet 3,0x4,0m, plastic plants, 2 standing halogen lights, large mirror ...

... Ukraine (near the Black Sea). However, the Romanian Rail Service had other plans in mind for me. Because the rail service in Romania doesn't like to make anything easy it seems, I had to go to another train station to get a train to Moldova. And buying a ticket for that train meant going to yet another station. Thankfully where you buy the ticket and where the train departs from are close to each other. I did find the train station where I could catch the train to Moldova and ...

... are both very educated and interesting elderly people. It was also quite an experience for Virginia to experience and for Tavi to reexperience life in one of those Communist era appartments, complete with the old 1960s Russian radios as big as a piece of furniture. We had a good time here and we marvelled at the kindness and generosity of people who were treated quite harshly by life.

... area of outstanding natural beauty. It is an old river valley with steep cliffs, many caves and a small church installed in one of the caves. The church is run by priests who actually live in the cave. Being a Sunday ther were many locals visiting. Quite a reasonable amount of exercise and for those asthmas sufferers in the group a couple of steep climbs. The rocks are used by rock climbers. A ...

... gave me the money. I went outside to check what I'd got and found I'd got $1000 about 10 times what I wanted, not a good idea in this apparently dangerous area. Checked in my book as what the local currency was and back inside and tried to get 1000 lei to no avail but then heard English behind me, so asked if they spoke English and Moldovan - they did so they helped me. Turned out to be impossible to put the cash back on my card so had ...

... gemacht haben, uns von einem Kind beobachtet zu kuessen; den Kleinen, der permanent alles durchsucht, was irgendwie genug Platz fuer ein Geschenk hat; die kleine Schleimerin, die boese wird, als wir sie nicht bevorzugen; den zurueckhaltenden Jungen mit der grandios intelligenten, charismatischen Ausstrahlung; die kleine Hexe, die die ganze Zeit mit den warzen andere Menschlein hascht; den wohl autistischen, warmen, immer gluecklichen Jungen; das kleine monster, voller Energie ...

... as in my part of the world, and one should just pay up and shut up really - these first world lot need lessons - how to cope with people in authority 101 - I could very amply run the course for a small fee in hard currency of course! Anyway as I buried my head in my novel there was a small altercation to my right where two Italians decided that a bit of ethnic cleansing would not go askance; because some Italian gentleman from the North of Italy had made a ...