Hotel Capitol 3 Brasov

... was the only train we could get that got us there in time to catch our flight up to St Petersburg. Panic set in and we pondered our options. Fly, look for a different train, get a taxi... All of these were impossible and expensive. Flights would be $300 each! We decided to go back to Bucharest and hope we could somehow get on the train we were supposed to. Then when we were wiating at the station we decided to ask a taxi driver how much it would be. They ...

... a glass window in the floor to a woman's skeleton discovered there from the 17th century.

We came back to Brasov with some help from the GPS and had pizza at a restaurant recommended to us. It was delicious and so was the "ice caffe frappe". We thought this was strange as there was also a "caffe frappe" on the menu so Ally asked the server the difference and we were both very excited when she told us the ice version means it has ice cream in it. The ice caffe frappe did not disappoint!

... against the Islamic Turks. Transylvania, along with Moldavia, and Wallachia, are now joined together as Romania. The name Dracul can be interpreted in two ways, the first translation from Romanian would be "Dragon", but it sometimes also means "Devil". Vlad was not called Tepes, which means ""spike" in Romanian, until after his death; instead, he was known as Vlad Dracula, the added "a" meaning "son of", so essentially, throughout his life, he was known as the "son of the ...

... smear of meat paste in the centre. The boiled cabbage and onions were of course their version of sauerkraut, delicious for the first two mouthfuls but then repeating themselves for the rest of the day and most of the night! Our target was a site near a small town, Levoca, just beyond the end of the range, which the owner is trying to make into the best camp site in Slovakia. Either this does not say much for the other ...

... and admiring the unique Romanian architecture. We both especially liked the style of tiled roofs. Other than this there was really not a lot to do in the town since it is so small. This was not a negative thing after the fast paced city of Istanbul and it was nice to relax in our comfortable apartment. Day 3 We were finally able to sleep in on our last day in Brasov. In the afternoon we tried to visit the fortress that is located on a hill above the city, but ...

... day and enjoyed it out there. She told me that she is starting to fell better about coming now. she said 'i dont feel so much like... ahh what is the word, [look up the dictionary] .. crying .. every day now. We went up to the quiz night at the office. There were about 10 of us there so after our team won the quiz we went out to an outdoor concert. There is some italian band called Iris that is very popular here. So we all stormed out there on the bus. You would think though that ...

... us. The boys are rough and tumble and like rolling around laughing and hitting each other, as boys do. When we left they all waved and said goodbye, even screaming goodbye out the window to us when we were walking down to the bus stop. ok, now they have folk music on in the internet cafe and theres a load of people singing, clapping and dancing. this is really bizarre. Now that im not just looking at the ground and being miserable, ive noticed that brasov is ...

... Dao hostel in Brasov is top notch, it really is. Very professional, with a receptionist and everything, as well as free drinks, free internet and a really good selection of movies. We (all the people at the hostel) watched Pulp Fiction en masse in the common room on my second night there, and since my room was on the top floor, i actually managed to get some sleep. Thank God. My third day there, at breakfast, i started ...

Day 33 Today was Labour Day. Funny how even in a communist country they have the same public holiday that we do. Well I guess, communism was all about the worker... so having a holiday for workers makes sense. It was also my grandfather's 86th birthday... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Today was a short drive day as we stayed in Romania, just went to a different town (Brasov) so we had some free time in the city of Bucherest this morning. Only problem, it's a public holiday ...

I had a fabulous day in Brasov with Andi. In spite of her coughing as though she would die, she insisted on showing me around the city. It was a beautiful place, with charming filthy streets. We saw the school where she teaches, the gypsy market with its tables piled with old clothes and the sound of bartering in actual Romanian, not Hungarian. We saw the "littlest street in the world" and the Hollywood style sign declaring the name Brosov, perched on the mountain above the city ...