Hotel Cottage Gloria Chisinau

... most roads lead to Moscow, but there are a few to Ukraine. I figure to take the one to Lviv (Lvov, Lwow), since that avoids the splinter state of ‘Trans-Dniester’ (or whatever they’re calling themselves these days), apparently some ethnic Russians who liked being part of the old USSR more than the new Moldova. I don’t figure it for a viable state, or I’d go there for future reference, but now ...

What a day, I will never forget it. Horrible and interesting. Bought a bus ticket in Odessa for a trip to Chisinau, Moldowa. Asked if the bus will go from Odessa VIA PALANCA to Chisinau, thus not through Transnistria. I often read the advice NOT TO PASS Transnistria cause this will cause problems at the border. So I was shocked when the bus arrived the border of Transnistria. Four order officials asked me to leave the bus and to follow them. We went to a small ...

... br> &gt; 50m2<br> &gt; 1st floor (here called 2nd) with free view on trees and playground <br> &gt; modern apartment still with some soviet nostalgia, high ceilings <br> &gt; in front of building some trees and terraces + main bus stop <br> <br> &gt; open entrance hall * 5m2<br> &gt; comfortable fully equipped ...

... store high quality wines. There is a constant temperature inside this wine city which is carefully maintained by the authorities. It is +12°C to + 14°C and the humidity level is maintained between 85% to 95%. Milestii Mici in August, 2005, was registered in the Guinness World Records for being the biggest Wine Collection in the world. The collection comprises 1.5 million bottles. See Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unBLfmj dGQ ...

... group that lay down in front of the Russian tanks at the Annual May Day parade. Their group was soon joined by others and so began the transition to democracy. Prior to the collapse of Communism two thirds of the population of Chisinau was Russian - many have chosen to say and it is an observation that a lot of the glamour in Chisinau is provided by the young Russian ladies. Today Moldova is a democracy but there is a Communist Government in power, as in ...

... or so, nicely in time for a late breakfast. In the first genuine botch in a long while, thats actually an 18 hour train trip. An 18 hour trip we embarked upon without food, with limited water, and without a dining car. The positive side is how long the body can go without meals and sustained only by three old chocolate biscuits. The negative side is everything else, particularly in a wagon heated high enough to melt the light fittings. Claude sweated ...

I got the overnight train from Romania to Chisinau, Moldova. I was hoping to spend the day there kicking around the capital before hopping a train to Odessa, but found out they no longer have trains between Moldova and Odessa, due to the problematic "breakaway" republic of Transdinistria. It's a tiny little bit of Moldova sandwiched between The real Moldova and the Ukraine and they fancy themselves still a soviet republic. Nobody else recognizes them, however, but it doesn't stop ...

... lungs. Otherwise though, it's a very Soviet place, with loads of long, austere apartment blocks and tall, concrete hotels and government buildings. There are a few elegant neo-classical buildings around, but other than that there isn't very much of historical note. If you poke around some of the more mazelike old streets north of the center proper, there are some more obvious relics from the past, but none of it is of much interest or importance. In fact, I can't help shaking ...

The night train to Chisinau wasn't as nice as the one to Budapest. Four beds and we shared the compartment with a Moldovan woman who spoke no English. Didn't get that much sleep, but it wasn't bad. It was about a 12 hour ride. Arrived in Chisinau and started walking to the bus station where we would pick up a local bus to Criuleni where we would meet Dave. Took about an hour to find the bus station and after about an hour and a half, realized it was the ...

... challenged as I was until I had to fly here, the capital of Moldova is Chiþinãu (Kishinev in Russian) and it borders Romania and the Ukraine. The team comprising 4 gentlemen - Australian, Danish, Armenian, British - and myself, are staying at the state funded Hotel Codru which is perfectly utilitarian until you get to breakfast. Now for the past three weeks the greatest issue we've been grappling with as a team has not been how to improve the income of rural ...