Gmg Hotel Constanta

... as security dogs at rock concerts and now hear nothing. I haven´t been b&#305;tten but am act&#305;vely search&#305;ng a rabies injection, &#305;ncase the terrible rumours of rabid turkish dogs the size of elephants are true. <br><br>Over the next few days I really pushed hard with my cycling:  on the day I finally and somewhat sadly left the Carpathian mountains I peddled 170 km/106 miles.  On that day I met Sebastian, who had ...

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 ...

... on one side of us and a shitload of hotels lost in the 70s on the other side.<br><br>We couldn't resist the bright coloured buildings with their neon lighting and bad curtains. We pulled over at a 3 star and found out it was only about $80/night so we took it. We threw our bags in our room decorated with gold fabrics and walked around, quickly discovering the Black Sea was directly outside our hotel door! How fabulous. We walked down to the nearest ...

... went by and we boarded the bus. I was the only 'foreign' one on board, the rest were either turks or gypsies. Once the bus took off everybody lit up their cigarettes and started smoking. I couldn't wait for this trip to be over with. Had our passports checked at my first Passport Control and then we were over the border into Bulgaria.

... the Brits are starting to discover the place and are everywhere. I didn't get my feet into the Black Sea this time, but they have been there before. I rarely swim in California coz I don't like not being able to see what is beneath me, but since there are no harmful fish in the Black...and no tides, I like swimming there. The water temp was just 19 tho, too cold.

... na odprawe... autokar do I s t a m b u l u! Marcin mowi do mnie: "Bogna, to jest znak, my m u s i m y tam jechac!" "Ale... ale grupa, ale koszta, ale...mysmy tego nie planowali!!! I co z grupa? Zostawimy ich?!?!" - mialam metlik w glowie. Marcin popatrzyl na mnie blagalnym wzrokiem, oczy mu si&#281; jeszcze tak nie iskrzyly od kiedy go poznalam, a Zajac zamienil ten wzrok w slowa: "blagam, jedzcie z nami..." Co mialam zrobic? "Dobra, Marcin, jedziemy do Varny, bo i ...

After a few days we managed to get to Internet and bring you all up to date what we've been up to (well most of it anyway :-) ). It was unbelievably hard to get an Internet cafe with CD ROMs in this city. Roxy's home town was heaps good - it's like we are on a different planet here. From Sunday lunch time we have been on the seaside here in Romania (Black Sea). The weather has been very warm (even hot). I don't want to rub it in to all those in ...

Here was a day we will never forget. We were scammed of cash and didn't even realize it till later on. What happened was we were looking for a bus stop to take us to a place called Mamaia resort which was recommended to us by a Romanian working on the ship. With the brochure in hand of the on/off tourist bus that went there we were asked by a guy in the street if we needed help finding the stop. We were with another couple ...

... general are very friendly, very helpful, and generally eager to practice their English. And let me just say it again: the girls here are *EXQUISITE*. I don't know what it is about this country, but it rivals, without doubt, the girls of Slovakia, and I was in heaven there. If anyone is looking for a gorgeous Eastern European hookup, you owe it to yourself to come to Romania. You wont be dissapointed =P With that...wow. Lets go home. Maybe it's time. I just don't know. Cheers.

... of tiny, industrial coastal town that wasn't quite what we had in mind!! However after a short discussion with our maxitaxi driver in broken romanoglish and the purchase of another ticket we found ourselves at a coastal camping ground at the very edge of Mamaia. Again according to the lonely planet, accommodation was supposed to be very cheap so we were shocked to find ourselves being quoted prices for one night in a "bungalow" that I had hoped to avoid until I reach ...