Central Arad

Timisoara is not a city that I couldn't wait to visit, but on the other hand, it is not a bad place to travel to either. I went there because it was the only Romanian city I could go to from Belgrade, and my first impression of it wasn’t a good one. My train arrived late, by 10 at night I walked into a dilapidated and dirty station, filled with gypsy baggers and a few suspicious looking men pushing their ...

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The berths on our train out of Sighetu had eight seat numbers. We thought that surely the seats would not be filled since it looked as though they had been built for that number of elementery schoolchildren. Alas, after a short time, six very noisy adults came crowding into the birth. They had ...

5th June
Kiskassa (Hungary) to Timisoura (Romania)
Cold, Cloudy 10 degrees am
Cloudy periods fine 22 degrees pm

As it dawned foggy, drizzly and cold we decided to cut our farm stay short and head to Romania. We had already seen Pecs, and with nothing more to see at the farm felt it would be an uncomfortable (cold) wasted day. The drive to Romania was relatively easy except that we forgot that "GPS guy ...

... crede că producţia nu mai are ce căuta în mijlocul oraşului. „Pentru noi mai este şi un motiv pur tehnic şi de specialitate, vrem o clădire nouă care să ne permita un flux tehnologic din care să obţinem condiţii mai bune pentru oameni”, a mai spus Grapini.

Vor să dezvolte marca Guban

Cu aproape 300 de angajaţi, G.P. Company a încheiat ultimul an fiscal în profit ...

Im in Timisoara the second city in World to start using street lights ..... take a guess at the year?.................. I dont know either . late 1800's. What a true wonderful experience the last 24 hours. I have been staying with a Romanian , Dana. She speaks perfect English and cooks even better. She has made me traditional dishes : rice and pork wrapped in grape leaves topped with yogurt and dill 2) spinach sauce with two eggs ...

Nos despedimos de Belgrado para volver a Timisoara y desde allí coger el avión de vuelta a Valencia. Tras la huella del Danubio: El sol se oculta detrás de los frondosos bosques rumanos, el tren silba, los raíles chirrían y dejamos algo más que nuestra estancia en Belgrado. Cada regreso es una armónica melancólica, cada vuelta a casa es una nube de nostalgia. La imagen de la capital serbia al cerrar los ojos. Al acabar un viaje se empieza uno en la antesala del subconsciente.

Llegamos sobre las 3 de la madrugada al aeropuerto de Timisoara. Allí cogemos un taxi para ir a la estación de tren, donde tenemos que coger el tren hacia Belgrado. Después de los 17 euros que nos sabla el taxista, cambiamos algo de dinero rumano (RON) para poder comprar los billetes. Esperamos dos horas en el hall de la estación con algunos indigentes rumanos. A las 6 de la madrugada sale nuestro tren.

We spent a typical European day in the university border town of Timisoara. The town square is absolutely beautiful - one of the nicest we have seen. The opera house is showing My Fair Lady in a few days, and I am so sad we won´t be able to see it! The 1989 revolution started here, and you can still feel a bit of the revolutionary spirit walking through the town. After a yummy lunch in the square, we took a self-guided walking tour to see the famous buildings ...

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THESE #@*%$ TRUCKS ON THESE #@*%$ ROADS. We have tried everything. Larger highways hoping for wider shoulders, smaller highways hoping for less truck traffic, unnamed country roads that will loosen your fillings (but may save your life). But we can't seem to get a break (or a BRAKE) from the truck traffic here. Actually, traffic in general is MUCH worse in Romania than ...

... though, I can find no onward transportation onward to Serbia, though that may have changed by now, as those were dark days then. Belgrade seems little more than a stone’s throw as the crow flies, but that doesn’t do me much good if there are no buses or trains. There are plenty of gypsies here, too, many of them hanging out in front and inside of the train station and generally making nuisances of themselves. It’s time to go back.