Hotel Timisoara

... services. Luckily things became much better after this and I did have a good time while I was there.<br><br>The city does have a proud history. For one thing, it is the first city in Europe to have electric street lights (back then it was part of Austro-Hungarian Empire), and most recently, in Dec 18, 1989, its citizens started the revolution against the communist regime, and it spread like wildfire all over the ...

... have. I felt persecuted and oppressed, pushed against the wall. <br><br>The train ride was around eleven hours and overnight, so I got up and went in search of another berth. I found a berth inhabited by only an old woman and a young girl. Martin and I moved to that berth and remained there overnight. We communicated some with the girl ...

5th June<br>Kiskassa (Hungary) to Timisoura (Romania)<br>Cold, Cloudy 10 degrees am<br>Cloudy periods fine 22 degrees pm<br><br>As it dawned foggy, drizzly and cold we decided to cut our farm stay short and head to Romania. We had already seen Pecs, and with nothing more to see at the farm felt it would be an uncomfortable (cold) wasted day. The drive to Romania was relatively easy except that we forgot that "GPS guy ...

Im in Timisoara the second city in World to start using street lights ..... take a guess at the year?.................. I dont know either . late 1800's. What a true wonderful experience the last 24 hours. I have been staying with a Romanian , Dana. She speaks perfect English and cooks even better. She has made me traditional dishes : rice and pork wrapped in grape leaves topped with yogurt and dill 2) spinach sauce with two eggs ...

Nos despedimos de Belgrado para volver a Timisoara y desde allí coger el avión de vuelta a Valencia. Tras la huella del Danubio: El sol se oculta detrás de los frondosos bosques rumanos, el tren silba, los raíles chirrían y dejamos algo más que nuestra estancia en Belgrado. Cada regreso es una armónica melancólica, cada vuelta a casa es una nube de nostalgia. La imagen de la capital serbia al cerrar los ojos. Al acabar un viaje se empieza uno en la antesala del subconsciente.

Llegamos sobre las 3 de la madrugada al aeropuerto de Timisoara. Allí cogemos un taxi para ir a la estación de tren, donde tenemos que coger el tren hacia Belgrado. Después de los 17 euros que nos sabla el taxista, cambiamos algo de dinero rumano (RON) para poder comprar los billetes. Esperamos dos horas en el hall de la estación con algunos indigentes rumanos. A las 6 de la madrugada sale nuestro tren.

We spent a typical European day in the university border town of Timisoara. The town square is absolutely beautiful - one of the nicest we have seen. The opera house is showing My Fair Lady in a few days, and I am so sad we won´t be able to see it! The 1989 revolution started here, and you can still feel a bit of the revolutionary spirit walking through the town. After a yummy lunch in the square, we took a self-guided walking tour to see the famous buildings ...

... about anywhere else we have been. Even the small cities are clogged with fumy traffic jams. Not only is the truck volume staggering, but the number of personal vehicles is surprising. Interestingly, the latter seem somewhat even split between ancients beaters and luxury cars. Even personal vehicles are pretty aggro, a notch above the usual European maniac. One guy we met put it this way ...

... hasnt changed since I left Romania as well as the crazy drivers) the food was nice. Some of us ended up at a local bar where we stayed till the early hours... Crazy Allen, the South African had a few issues making the lights work in his room when he realised this morning that instead of putting the hotelkey into the slot to get electricity in your room he had put his credit card in..yes that aint gonna work mate..funny though!! DAY 31 - Timisoara Rest Day - This ...

... slow down and the sopranos sustained a gorgeous unison together between the closing three repetitions of the words from John: "In my Father's house there are many mansions - if it were not so, I would have told you" At the end, the audience was standing and clapping in rhythm for us - quite a thrill to be so warmly embraced by an audience in place so far from home. Off to dinner with the host choir! Tomorrow morning they're going to show us around the town! - TL