Ramada Hotel Bucharest Parc

... The morning, a bleary eyed and sore necked and backed pair of lads got off the train to find themselves in the armpit of europe. <br><br>We checked in our baggages, put on our daysacks, and started walking. As soon as we got out of Gara de Nord (north station) , sporting two bananas and a half a danish that we sved from the day before, we got swarmed by a teenage mutant boy who was speaking monkey talk and jumped for Jon's banana. We fended him ...

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... at passport control again at the Bulgarian/Romanian border, whereby the guy who got soaked proceeded to say "I have no passport" we never laughed so much! What kind of a mug tries to get across a border on a train, where passport checks are going to be blaitant! ahahaha! But a few hours later we reached Bucharest, where on the way in there was mile upon mile of residential housing blocks. To quote Jacob - "It's worse than Hackney!" - no kidding skengman ...

... the victory of World War 2. Then to Aviators Boulevard, which holds Aviators' Square. Here there is the famous Aviator sculpture, bearing the inscription 'Eroilor Aerului', translated as 'Heroes of War'. It was built between 1930 and 1935 Lidia Kotzebuie and by Iosif Fekete. The 20 m high structure bears a flying man and three aviators, each of the three at a different stage of flight attempt. It commemorates those men who died pursuing various goals ...

... The last name thing was unintentional. Paul's book was really good travel writing about a train trip from Boston to Patagonia. Would suggest it for anyone who likes travel literature. Henry's was a bit of a challenge, but I always feel good about reading philosophy independent of a class. Football Note: Daunte Culpepper is an enigma. One writer suggested he may be good in Baltimore and honestly I am without an opinion. Actually, I have one. Would rather have Daunte than Kyle.

... Zero." The Re-Routed Turkish Invader Award to xoxoxo for realizing that the bone-crushing Romanian roads render impossible his goal of conquering this unruly country through his sophistication, erudition, efficiency and orderliness. The Vlasic the Impaler Award to xoxoxo for his sacrifice in ordering up a platter of very large pickles with which to finish off Count Dracula instead of the nutritious salad he would have much preferred. The Stairway to Heaven Award to xoxoxo for ...

LA REVEDERE ROMANIA!! Well its finally time. After 5 months, my adventures in this little known Eastern European country are about to come to an end and I should be over the border and back into Hungary by the 4th of July!!! (That is provided that everything goes well when I visit the "aliens" office tomorrow in order to obtain a paper that will hopefully convince the border officials that although my visa has been expired for two ...

... on our way to the hostel. Not many people spoke english (actually none) and when seeing our backpacks many guys walked up to us trying to get us to their hotel or even wanting to rent some room in their own appartement....yeah right, as if we look that stupid! Eventually we found a sweet lady that spoke quite good english and she was able to explain us where it was and luckely enough we found it after walking around for ...

... daylight on a main artery. They were overtly aggressive and our friends escaped by ducking into a pharmacy, but only after one of them had her necklace violently torn away. Fortunately, we haven't experienced anything like this on our trip, maybe because we safely store our valuables by ingesting them before we go out in the morning. Try to pickpocket that. No, but we are inhumanly vigilant and we have locks for everything.

... Bulgaria. It is spread out over 1 mile or so and there are different checkpoints to go through. First for those who need Bulgarian transit visas. The everyone gets off the bus to go get a Turkish exit stamp. Back on the bus. Get back off for a 20 min duty free shopping break. Get back on. Get back off so that they can check to make sure that we all got our Turkish exit stamp. Get back on. Then on top of this, the Turkish exit guard does not want to take ...