Central Youth Hostel Chisinau

... we happened across the high strtreet. Suddenly everyone appeared to be rather stunning. All the girls anyway! We busied ourselves with wondering around the high strtreet and through a park and stopping for coffee and getting a bite to eat and also admiring what must have been the prettiest nation in Europe! What a suprise ^_^<br><br ...

... month = 7.200&euro; <br> Cel Bun 62 long term 750 &euro;/ month = 9.000&euro; <br> Puskin 28 long term 200 &euro;/ month = 2.400&euro; <br> Agencies who offer our short term rental apartments ask 20% more <br> Our investment packages are : Prices based on ca 10% return on investment over 10 years <br><br> 1. Packet ...

... me on the train from northern Romania the day before had continued into Chisinau but at least it wasn't raining. I got a place to sleep and just as important a place to hang up the stuff in my pack to dry out. It was the early evening by the time I got to Chisinau so I didn't do a lot when I first arrived but I did have a wander around. A lot of Chisinau was destroyed in WW2 and when it was rebuilt during Soviet times, it got stuck with lots of drab concrete high rises. It was ...

... and lay flowers by the eternal flame. Many people came carrying tulips and budlea to commemorate their loved ones fallen in war. Following the memorial service we were invited by Ion, Rotary President of Chisinau, to visit a political demonstration from 3 pro-European parties (which included some members of the Chisinau Rotary Club making speeches). For me I found it unusual that political parties make speeches on a day of ...

... but for some strange reasons the same bags that we packed in Marlow increased in content and volume during our stay in Romania... Before leaving the university where we stayed in Târgoviste we decide to use the food left in our rooms to feed the numerous homeless dogs standing outside our building. Homeless dogs appeared during Ceausescu's dictatorship, when houses with ...

... second. Its hard to see the town when you spend your time looking at the ground. Each of us had majestic death wobbles - I hit a particularly excellent streak of ice running down near a curb and managed to do two full helicopters with the groceries but remained on my feet. Claude, having lectured me about care, and slopes, and paying attention, provided me with immense fulfilment by then lapsign into buffoonery and being the first to hit the deck really ...

As I mentioned the day before, I decided to hop on out of Romania a day early and capitalize on Chisinau's more affordable sleeping arrangements. As it turned out though, the 4pm maxitaxi that I was expecting to pick up didn't seem to bother showing up - or at least on time. Instead I got the privilege of being harassed by attendant taxi drivers, who thought they were sly enough to trick me into an onward ride for ^80. They gave me the predictable line of "there are no more ...

... cellars not in limestone but under concrete, through a kind of nuclear blast door. Told how fantastic wines were stored since 1970's in a rapid tour and then to a banquet hall for wine tasting. 2 whites were not to my taste and the reds weren't either. Guide disappeared to take another group round so we proceeded to polish off all the wine, while eating bar food. Joined by other tour 1 Finn and 1 German, down other end of long table so asked them to join ...

Although not originally in my plans to visit I decided to go to Moldova after deciding to go to Romania since it is on my way and it is a state that has recently brought back into power the communist party. Also, since they just lifted visa requirements as of Feb. 1st, 2007 for Canadians I knew it would be easy to get into at the last minute. To top it off, a couple people from the hostel in L'viv had recommended a visit. There isn´t a huge tourism ...

... village I visited in the North 136 houses are for sale in a village whose population was originally 2,800 people and is now less than half of that and is mostly comprised of the elderly and the really young. The upside of visiting farmers in the countryside is that every household prides itself on making its own brand of wine which left our team pie eyed after every luncheon and the afternoon meetings were very surreal. Needless to say any faux pas on my part can ...