Hotel Splendid Constanta

... and a great bike shop. He arranges mountain bike tours amongst other things : zsolt@rockmachıne.ro     Having had a fair few scary moments with dogs which absolutely detest bicyclesÂ İ thought it a wise investment to purchase a high-powered, high-pitched anti-dog gizmo.  Indeed the dazzer seems to have some deterrent effect on some dogs.  Unfortunately the truly vicious ones seem little bothered, that or they spent their ...

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 ...

... hotel and booked coffee body wrap treatments for today.<br><br>This morning it was hot and foggy when we got up. We walked down the beach strip and found some fun little shops and most importantly gelato. There is also a gondola that runs the length of the strip and beyond; we aren't entirely sure where it ends.<br><br>I went for my treatment today and was let down. They didn't have any coffee and I didn't have much else to choose from so I took a ...

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 ...

Woke early Saturday to catch an early train to the Black Sea resorts in Constanta. You have to catch an early train this time of year coz the trains are 40 years old and have no AC, so in the afternoon they are brutal. Met up with some friends and went out on the town. Notthing too exciting to report...good food and a good time, but I was too tired and heated to really ...

... road. We stopped an old man that took us straight to the Bulgarian boarder. At the boarder we`d met our... d e s t i n y. It seemed as if a ray of light had touched us. What happened is we bumped into Zajac and Arek. They`d left our group half a day earlier with a goal to get to Turkey. The rest of us had not decided to do it due to the costs and lack of time. But it`s not the end, because at the boarder there was waiting to go through the customs a coach to... I s ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... know that everyone has experiences like this, and while not everyone may try and articulate them, I know threy're out. Such was my experience on the coast. Beautiful scenery, beautiful weather, a sexy breeze in the air...and a tingly feeling in the depths of my soul. Nights were pretty chill. My mate just got married to another Romanian, and he's an absolute blast. Generous, hilarious, and always willing to spare a cigarrette. Finally, he's someone who drinks nearly ...

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.