Vila Verde Hotel Chisinau
110 Grenoble Str Chisinau, Moldova
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Secret Hostels and Border Guard Bribes
... because he could speak Russian and he defiantly told me I was being paranoid. I believed him because my guide book was 3 years old... surely now the border must be better. NOPE! As the only American on the bus I was told that I did not have the proper stamps and that I must take a taxi back to Moldova and catch the next bus in 6 hours..... I knew exactly what was happening..and had prepared my wallet ahead of ...
A 21st Century Schizoid
... exotic" place I went in Turkey. The rest of the east is very traditional, but its also kind of boring. Urfa is traditional, but its also a cool place to kill a day or two and its real Middle East. The sights, smells, sounds, tastes. All of it. Real Middle East.
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Chisinau (kish i now)
... a sore head and feeling pretty rough. Daniel had made it back, they ended up drinking at the bar another three hours. But in my defense, he never had a drop at the wedding. I spent the next day recovering and getting ready for my next destination.
I left in the evening. A bus was waiting to take me to Lviv, Ukraine. It would not only be Adam Stinga that made my Moldova.
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Old world charm of Moldova
... with a bunch of over-excited school kids until it was our turn to go in. Success at last and within minutes I was swimming for the first time in ages. With the exception of an indoor pool back in Antalya a few months ago, I hadn't been in water since the beach in the Philippines. It felt great to swim around but not being a champion swimmer, I get bored after about half an hour and so I left. I was really looking for a pool that had somewhere where I could lie on a ...
Chisinau, Moldova - Where is that?
... sludged our way towards the centre of town where all the sights of Chisinau could be found. Unlike Prague, Tallinn or even Bratislava, Chisinau had no old town as such because it had been heavily bombed during World War II and so things were a little spread out. It did have plenty of parks though and we wandered through one until we reached the city’s main Orthodox Church. Sadly, it had no onion domes but its interior was impressive, all gold and red and sparkly. They ...



