Welcome to Bucharest!
Bucharest,
Romania
Monday, July 7, 2008
Yes so I'm actually in Romania now, Bucharest, and its 340am and i cant sleep. you'd think id have no problem since i was going to about 48 hours straight but i slept 3 hours and couldnt fall back asleep. There are stray dogs everywhere and many Roma (gypsy) ppl wandering around. My friend Gus is such a scaredy guy and we barely made it the 1/8 of a mile to the convenience store for water bc he was getting freaked out lol. (Though I wouldnt go by myself so I'm a scaredy cat too)
The people have been pretty helpful here...giving us the right directions and taking the correct of amt of change when we have no idea how much a RON is.
We might go into Transylvania region tomorrow but if not we'll wander around the city here. The first impression was "Wow...this is definitely a Soviet/Communist era city". I didnt take any pictures yet bc I was so focused on finding the hostel bf dark hahaha. We got here and met some Aussies and went to dinner and had a great conversation about politics, culture, travel...you know..the things ppl traveling through hostels have in common. We're sharing an 8 person mixed room with 2 French students who have been traveling for 10 months and writing articles for a travel magazine (omg i want to do that!) and got a scholarship to do it!!!!!! The Aussies are traveling a year and are a few months in.
Well i should probably try and get more sleep so I'm off. More of Bucharest tomorrow and then Sofia the next!!!
