Hotel Richmond Constanta

... fıtted the new cylinder and piston and then left Sebastian, motor running, having refused a single lei (Romanıan currency) in payment.  His blog is www.einfachlos.blogspot.com
good luck wıth the German and good luck to the German.

The Carpathian mountains were fınished for me, I was to continue south east while the mountaıns hook round westward.  Arriving in Constanza on the Black sea coast I had been ...

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 ...

... we arrived in Constanta we realized the entire city is a dive and it isn't where we want to be. I looked in the brochure Ally got from the Romania tourism board to see the picture. Which is when we realized the picture of the gorgeous Black Sea and the white sand beach is not of Constanta but a nearby beach resort town called Mamaia. So we passed right through Constanta, paid the 3 lei toll ($1.20) to get into Mamaia, and were greeted with the Lake ...

... everywhere walking around after money, turks all over the place, people spitting all over the ground. So i enquired at the bus station for the next bus to Varna, it was in about 4 hours time. Being reluctant to leave my luggage behind and not wanting twheel it everywhere I just sat down and made myself comfortable. Finally the 4 ...

... out and blow it up, so we had a nice dinner and I hit the rack early. We did get some mititei, which is my favorite Romanian food...little lamb, pork and beef sausages with no skins, grilled over an open flame. German sausage pales in comparison. Starting to drag a little now...something like 11 cities in 15 days... The Black Sea is beautiful and the resorts are ...

POLSKI: Do Constanzy przybylismy po 16tej, ale ostatnie osoby - Zajac i Szeryf, dojechali dopiero po 19tej. Siedzielismy w ruinach i gadalismy, czekajac na nich. Gdy wreszcie dotarli, pojechalismy do Mamai (miejscowosci na obrzezach Constanzy) na nocleg. W autobusie miejskim kieszonkowcy probowali okrasc Zete, ale dzieki Arkowi, ktory zauwazyl, jak juz wkladali reke do torby, nie udalo im sie. Byli na tyle cwani, ze gdy podnieslismy alarm, probowali z nas zrobic ...

After a few days we managed to get to Internet and bring you all up to date what we've been up to (well most of it anyway :-) ). It was unbelievably hard to get an Internet cafe with CD ROMs in this city. Roxy's home town was heaps good - it's like we are on a different planet here. From Sunday lunch time we have been on the seaside here in Romania (Black Sea). The weather has been very warm (even hot). I don't want to rub it in to all those in ...

... they just started to follow him. We were led down a side street where we heard the sound of a police car siren pull up and 4 plain clothes police told us to get away from that man, that he was dangerous. We walked away caught the bus and proceeded to Mamaia resort (about 45 mins away). We were told the bus would stop there for 10 mins and then return to town. We strolled around and who did we bump into?, the same guy who ...

... 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 ...

Salut! Well, things are finally coming to an end over here and as great as many of the moments have been I can safely say that I can't wait for the next leg of my adventure to begin!! My final week of "teaching"-if you could really call it that-begins in a couple of hours and then my life as a truly homeless, bummy backpacker awaits. Recently, life has been relatively quiet as things draw slowly to an end. The weekend before last we said our first goodbye when Em (one of ...