Minihotel Olsi Chisinau

... they will ALWAYS stop to get more people in. Even if there are 30 of you already in the van. <br><br><br>Upon arrival in sunny Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, with no accommodation booked we hit the Wifi zone outside McDonalds and googled a hostel that sounded promising. Our attempt to physically locate it however resulted in abject failure. We took a taxi out to where it was, hunted around for 30 minutes with no luck and had ...

... doors * 16m2<br> &gt; 2nd bedroom with study * 14m2 <br> &gt; wooden floors and 2 big carpets, high ceilings <br> &gt; Pvc double glazed windows<br><br> &gt; connection telephone on 3 places<br> &gt; connection broadband Wireless Internet with modem<br> &gt; connection 2 Satellite dishes for Hotbird, Astra &amp ...

... policeman run out of the bus to catch the juvenile. They come back after an hour of waiting in the middle of nowhere in the dark. When the bus starts moving again, all the shattered glass comes down and flies around. We also get some attempts of social engineering in the bus in the form of private apartment rentals. After we finally arrive, we book rooms in a dodgy hotel called hotel Chisinau, which ...

... only had some cookies to share as I had been a bit late getting to the train station and didn't have enough time to stop at a shop along the way to pick up some food to eat. But it was still all good. It was a 13 hour train trip and at first I had wondered why it would take so long but then I found out they had to change the wheels on the train as Moldova is on the Russian rail gauge. I had experienced this when I went to Ukraine but hadn't really got a good look at what happened ...

... Both blocks are usually full. There are 40 doctors practicing at the Chisinau Hospital of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Their audit and registration systems at the Chisinau Hospital of Gynaecology and Obstetrics are based on American models with reference to British systems too. - Dr Rotaru is very approving of this kind of communication between countries. During strict Soviet times doctors were paid relatively much more that today ...

... written down on a tidy little piece of paper, replete with more pleases, thank yous and through-the-great-majesty-of-your-everl asting-benevolent-kin dnesses than you could poke a phrasebook at. They are all needed. To commence what we knew would be interesting proceedings, with no advance warning the woman at ticket counter two went apocalyptically apoplectic at the sight of the little bit of paper. So enraged was she that in standing up to lean into ...

... done such a good job spending the remainder of my Ukrainian currency that I didn't have 5 Hy left, so I played dumb until the driver gave up and let me on the bus. Rural Moldova is really quite beautiful: rolling hills, vineyards, and the beginning touches of fall. It's been wonderful keeping up with fall's progression as I travel south. Coming from Odessa, our bus took the road less travelled. The most sensible route goes through ...

... any officers loitering about on street corners. But I let my guard down at one point, and quickly got myself into a situation I knew would attract the unwanted attention of the authorities. While out on the southern fringe of Chisinau's downtown, I walked past a particularly large Soviet war memorial - the predictably overdone kind that looms over all around it. As I rounded the front of it, I noticed the guardsmen standing beyond the eternal flame kept within, and a few ...

... some sleep, Jutta left to get some sleep, German left to get his last bus home, but was back as he'd missed it. Offered him a place in my room. Yan then left to get his sleep, so me and the German struggled home and went to sleep. Now I always sleep in the nude and it was hot so no sheet, so it may have been a shock as the German slept fully clothed on top of the bed. Wednesday 25 July Woken at 9 by German saying good-bye and then back to sleep. Woke up about ...

... was Canadian...it gave him a chance to practice his English which he told me he doesn´t use very often. He believes strongly that a man should live where he is born, explaining why he has stayed in Moldova while others have left after the collapse of the soviet empire. His real hobby is flying and he has piloted a few different aircraft including the MIG-21 fighter plane. Amazing. He was adamant that I visit the cultural capitals of the world ...