Europa Constanta

... town.  <br><br>On my way to Bulgaria I cursed a bear of a man called, unfittingly, Mimi.  Mimi had convinced me that the coastal road to Bulgaria was quiet.  How wrong he was!  He was, however, right about a bag being full of live ducks. <br><br>I took the first opportunity to leave this road of doom, cruised south westerly and entered Bulgaria untwarted at a quiet border-crossing town which translates into English as Black Water.  <br>

12th June<br><br>Golden Sands (Bulgaria) to Constanta (Romania)<br><br>Sunny periods 29 degrees<br><br>We left Golden Sands and travelled north to Constanta. The drive was fairly easy as we passed huge fields of barley, corn and sunflower (must be stunning when flowering). We also passed some new wind farms. We crossed the border with a little difficulty as they scrutinised our car paperwork but finally let us continue. We arrived in Constanta without a ...

... us we could actually go inside the wall and walk 360 degrees through it. So of course we did that. There are no lights, just the open windows that let in the sunlight, so it is quite dark in the walls. I thought it was pretty fun.<br><br>After Prejmer all we had to do was drive for a long, long time. We were heading to Constanta and it isn't that far (about 300km) but the roads here suck and so does the traffic so it took all afternoon to get there ...

Finally got to the bus station, got onto a sleek looking mini bus and off we went. Unfortunately the windows were mostly fogged up, still being early so didnt get a lot of pics on the way. About 2.5 hours later we arrived at Constanta, the seaport of Romania. I had planned to stay here a night, but i didn't like the look fo the people ...

... out and blow it up, so we had a nice dinner and I hit the rack early. We did get some mititei, which is my favorite Romanian food...little lamb, pork and beef sausages with no skins, grilled over an open flame. German sausage pales in comparison. Starting to drag a little now...something like 11 cities in 15 days... The Black Sea is beautiful and the resorts are ...

... tureckiej - trzy... Cyganie uroczyscie wreczyli nam po wagonie papierosow, zebysmy im pomogli je przeszmuglowac. W ramach naszej misji "przyjazn" zgodzilismy sie. Zaplacilam 10 euro za wize turecka - pieczatke pozwalajaca na miesiac pobytu, i grubo po 1 w nocy ruszylismy dalej. O 6 rano bylismy w Istanbule... ENGLISH: We arrived to Constanza about 4pm, but the last people - Zajac and Sheriff, got there after 7pm. We had been sitting in the ancient ruins and chatting ...

... on the "Banana" where they pull you with a boat and try to turn you over (well it succeeded). That was great fun (see photos). And today (Tuesday) in the morning was the same, a bludge day. In the morning we went to the beach. At lunch time Roxy and her mum had Manicure and Pedicure - AGAIN!!! In the afternoon we went to see the city (see photos). Tomorrow we are leaving on a 1000km journey to Croatia. That will be fun and we are all looking toward it.

... to show us the way to the bus stop!!!! I thought how the hell did he get here? Anyway we walked back towards the bus and he followed and there were the same guys from the police car asking us if he was bothering us. We said "no" and they started asking us!! for ID and to empty our pockets, asking if we had cocaine etc. Wondering whether these guys were legit or not we decided to conform and they took our money ...

... by the language here. How the hell does a Romance language survive in an isolated country, when the next nearest Romance language speaking country is all the way on the other side of Europe...it's an interesting prospect to say the least. I have to say, standing on the beach of the Black Sea was a soul-stirring experience. Looking out in the endless sea, knowing that on the other side starts the lands of the "Stan's"...and that after that Asia...wow. It's difficult to ...

Well, there isn't much to say about Romania. There also wasn't much for us to do. So what we did end up doing is just headed to the beach on the Black Sea, and snap a photo or two. Constanta was kinda odd, it seemed like it was trying to fit into the rest of Europe, but wasn't doing too good of a job at it.