NH Timisoara

Timisoara is not a city that I couldn't wait to visit, but on the other hand, it is not a bad place to travel to either. I went there because it was the only Romanian city I could go to from Belgrade, and my first impression of it wasn’t a good one. My train arrived late, by 10 at night I walked into a dilapidated and dirty station, filled with gypsy baggers and a few suspicious looking men pushing their ...

The title says it all for this entry.<br><br>The berths on our train out of Sighetu had eight seat numbers. We thought that surely the seats would not be filled since it looked as though they had been built for that number of elementery schoolchildren. Alas, after a short time, six very noisy adults came crowding into the birth. They had ...

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 ...

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THESE #@*%$ TRUCKS ON THESE #@*%$ ROADS. We have tried everything. Larger highways hoping for wider shoulders, smaller highways hoping for less truck traffic, unnamed country roads that will loosen your fillings (but may save your life). But we can't seem to get a break (or a BRAKE) from the truck traffic here. Actually, traffic in general is MUCH worse in Romania than ...

... I cycled across another poor animal!! This time it was Mr Lizzard's turn, who now only has a rather small tale instead of the nice long one he had before he decided to cross the road (I am sorrryy....I believe they grow back). We managed to keep a good pase and got to camp around 1pm. Allen, a South African who has joined us in Budapest, Graeme and I found ourselves a cool place in the shade which served cold beers and decide this is a good place to hang out ...

... on the crowd. Our guide Edward later gave us a further dimension of the situation - his belief, apparently shared with many others, that the communist party leaders under Ceaucescu manipulated the people to enable their own coupd'etat, followed by even more killings by never-identified "terrorists" who created a climate further fear that kept the party apparatus in power, if under a new name. Edward's assessment now was that people had become cynical and ...