Hotel VisPas Chisinau
26, Lapusneanu Str Chisinau, 2004, Moldova
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Secret Hostels and Border Guard Bribes
... and explore the wineries, monasteries, nightlife as well as the country side. My trip thus far has been hitting the big cities of eastern Europe and it makes me want to come back to explore the more rural side of things.
From Moldova I had to move on to Ukraine but in order to get there I had to cross the self proclaimed Republic of Transdnestr. They have their own borders and money but I ...
A 21st Century Schizoid
... alley into the main market, a hairy dude is in another's face yelling and waving his hands like a fight is about to break out only to start laughing like a hyena a second later. He was really just telling a joke. I come out of the market into the park in front of the mosque and there are 100,000 people sprawled out on blankets boiling tea, cooking over tiny charcoal stoves, sleeping, smoking, swimming in the canals. The mosque is lit up orange ...
Chisinau (kish i now)
... at all. I drank a beer quickly, but then felt very drunk, so I did my typical jaunt of disappearing and heading for the hostel. I love that feeling, all I want to do is go to sleep and somehow, my body knows the exact direction of the hostel.
So, in essence, we crashed a wedding that we were kind of invited to. An amusing story and a wonderful way to see a Moldovan wedding up close. People in Moldova hold a bunch ...
Old world charm of Moldova
... cheap and I had no language problems, in a place where almost no one speaks English. It just seemed so easy to get things done here. The people were always pleasant and they understood me. After all, Romanian is a Latin language from the same family as Italian or French so many words are remarkably familiar. That means it's also easy to guess what's being said if you can already speak another Latin language. After spending some time walking around the parks, it started ...
Chisinau, Moldova - Where is that?
... perhaps the Sahara. Downcast people with their collars pulled tight stood about waiting for trolley buses, which splashed along the streets. Stray dogs looked furtive and fearful, slinking out of sight if anyone drew too near, and as we walked along, the main type of establishment, apart from the money changers, seemed to be casinos. However, in direct contrast to the gloom were the young women of Chisinau, all fashionably-dressed, tottering about in skin tight jeans and ...



