Perla 4 Timisoara

... most prestige award in international football, played by the US and Brazil national team, in which US almost won but eventually lost by 2 to 3 (I bet most of you didn&#8217;t know this event). <br><br>So this was how I enjoyed my first day in Romania. It is right next to Ukraine but I was too busy going to Poland and Hungary and Crimea and Switzerland to visit it until now, and like they say, better late than never.

... 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 ...

... werent turning as fast, prob to do with the beers and also a restless nights sleep. I seemed to have set up my tent next to some Hungarians who decided it was time to party till around 3am, argh. In the morning we took a wrong turn and thought we had done quite a few extra km's, but when we caught up with the group it actually only was around 2km, that didnt sound too bad... We cycled with the "Tandem Train", Jos and John and Liz (from NZ) and made sure to stop ...

... truly, welcoming some physical activity to release the stress, with much "encouragement" from our singers!) Courses continued coming out, and there were conversations about life in Romania and the US, preparation for the Romanian Orthodox priesthood by a couple of the men singers, stories of participation in the 1989 revolution by singers who were then college students, the exchange of CD's (from BCCS) with small hand-painted clay dishes from the Romanian ...