Savoy Mamaia

... and a great bike shop. He arranges mountain bike tours amongst other things : zsolt@rockmachıne.ro     Having had a fair few scary moments with dogs which absolutely detest bicycles İ thought it a wise investment to purchase a high-powered, high-pitched anti-dog gizmo.  Indeed the dazzer seems to have some deterrent effect on some dogs.  Unfortunately the truly vicious ones seem little bothered, that or they spent their ...

12th June

Golden Sands (Bulgaria) to Constanta (Romania)

Sunny periods 29 degrees

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 ...

... hit the road so we got on our way and headed to Bran to see the highlight of our trip, Dracula's Castle! Actually it wasn't that exciting once we were inside because it is quite sparse, but it was still really cool to see the inspiring castle and to read about the history of the castle. And it is still a castle so I enjoyed the visit there.

From Bran we back-tracked a bit and went over to a small town called Harman to see a fortified church ...

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 ...

... quote has become one of our favorite ones of that trip J We had been doing sightseeing till 2pm. I was really impressed by the ancient Roman ruins, the narrow streets and beautiful tenement houses. Randomly I even found the way to the sea. In the afternoon we went to the station to find a mini bus getting us out of the city. Marcin had talked to a DHL driver though and 2 of us saved 2 lei :D. We arrived to Ma-something and had to walk 3 km, in order to get to the ...

... 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.

... to show us the way to the bus stop!!!! I thought how the hell did he get here? Anyway we walked back towards the bus and he followed and there were the same guys from the police car asking us if he was bothering us. We said "no" and they started asking us!! for ID and to empty our pockets, asking if we had cocaine etc. Wondering whether these guys were legit or not we decided to conform and they took our money ...

... things into words, and this bloody hangover isn't exactly helping, so I'll give this a go. Think back to an experience which turly stirred your blood, which caused you to question and reflect upon everything you ever thought you believed, which offered some precious clarity and clairvoyance into the massive web of life found in this world, your place in it, and at the moment of climax, the feint whisper of a better tomorrow and a better future. Deep ****, I know. But I ...

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.