Royal Constanta

... f&#305;tted the new cylinder and piston and then left Sebastian, motor running, having refused a single lei (Roman&#305;an currency) in payment.  His blog is www.einfachlos.blogspot.com <br>good luck w&#305;th the German and good luck to the German. <br><br>The Carpathian mountains were f&#305;nished for me, I was to continue south east while the mounta&#305;ns hook round westward.  Arriving in Constanza on the Black sea coast I had been ...

12th June<br><br>Golden Sands (Bulgaria) to Constanta (Romania)<br><br>Sunny periods 29 degrees<br><br>We left Golden Sands and travelled north to Constanta. The drive was fairly easy as we passed huge fields of barley, corn and sunflower (must be stunning when flowering). We also passed some new wind farms. We crossed the border with a little difficulty as they scrutinised our car paperwork but finally let us continue. We arrived in Constanta without a ...

... hotel and booked coffee body wrap treatments for today.<br><br>This morning it was hot and foggy when we got up. We walked down the beach strip and found some fun little shops and most importantly gelato. There is also a gondola that runs the length of the strip and beyond; we aren't entirely sure where it ends.<br><br>I went for my treatment today and was let down. They didn't have any coffee and I didn't have much else to choose from so I took a ...

Finally got to the bus station, got onto a sleek looking mini bus and off we went. Unfortunately the windows were mostly fogged up, still being early so didnt get a lot of pics on the way. About 2.5 hours later we arrived at Constanta, the seaport of Romania. I had planned to stay here a night, but i didn't like the look fo the people ...

Woke early Saturday to catch an early train to the Black Sea resorts in Constanta. You have to catch an early train this time of year coz the trains are 40 years old and have no AC, so in the afternoon they are brutal. Met up with some friends and went out on the town. Notthing too exciting to report...good food and a good time, but I was too tired and heated to really ...

... road. We stopped an old man that took us straight to the Bulgarian boarder. At the boarder we`d met our... d e s t i n y. It seemed as if a ray of light had touched us. What happened is we bumped into Zajac and Arek. They`d left our group half a day earlier with a goal to get to Turkey. The rest of us had not decided to do it due to the costs and lack of time. But it`s not the end, because at the boarder there was waiting to go through the customs a coach to... I s ...

... on the "Banana" where they pull you with a boat and try to turn you over (well it succeeded). That was great fun (see photos). And today (Tuesday) in the morning was the same, a bludge day. In the morning we went to the beach. At lunch time Roxy and her mum had Manicure and Pedicure - AGAIN!!! In the afternoon we went to see the city (see photos). Tomorrow we are leaving on a 1000km journey to Croatia. That will be fun and we are all looking toward it.

... told later by the port authorities that in Constanta there are no "plainclothes policemen" and they are always in marked police cars. We also heard 5 other pickpocket stories that day. So I'm afraid Constanta will always be a place I remember for the wrong reasons. If you travel there please be aware of the possibilitea and be street smart. PS we were able to claim $200 on our Travel Insurance so there was a happy ending.

... by the language here. How the hell does a Romance language survive in an isolated country, when the next nearest Romance language speaking country is all the way on the other side of Europe...it's an interesting prospect to say the least. I have to say, standing on the beach of the Black Sea was a soul-stirring experience. Looking out in the endless sea, knowing that on the other side starts the lands of the "Stan's"...and that after that Asia...wow. It's difficult to ...

Well, there isn't much to say about Romania. There also wasn't much for us to do. So what we did end up doing is just headed to the beach on the Black Sea, and snap a photo or two. Constanta was kinda odd, it seemed like it was trying to fit into the rest of Europe, but wasn't doing too good of a job at it.