Monday, May 21, 2012

1,500km around Romania-Part 7&8


Craiova-Timisoara-Arad-Oradea-Cluj Napoca-Baia Mare-Sigisoara-Brasov-Bucharest

Time passed and it was time to continue our trip to the next location-Sigisoara. Of course the road from Baia Mare to Sigisoara went through Cluj Napoca again.
This time we got a good car and the driver was also Okay, maybe because he didn`t talk to as at all… Maybe because he thought that we were talking alien language. But it was relaxing.
After few hours we reached the city. Stepped out, went to eat something and only then started the city tour.
What can I say, I was expecting something more. Maybe because everybody was saying how cool and awesome the old city is, that I had too high expectations. I`m not saying that I didn`t like it-I did. But,yes..
We walked and walked and rain was our company for the whole day.
Met an Australian guy in the cemetery who has been biking for 2 (or 3) years already and wants to go home the long way-trough Africa. Craaaaaaaaaaazyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
All in all I liked the city and the donuts we ate on the street.
Basically that was it..We could only spend there 3 hours because our sleeping place for that night was in Brasov, so we had to continue and move on to the other city.
We were kindly begging the cars to stop because it was @#$%% raining all the time. It worked. A half big truck (a middle one) stopped and took us almost to Brasov. We had to step out on the highway and continue walking. It would have been okay if it didn’t rain the whole %%^&*%$#^%$ time!!! We were wet, the cars kept on driving in the puddles, making us more wet and unhappy.
First we went to a supermarket to buy something to eat and some 2l bottled beer.. After that we took a bus to the center (actually our host said that we could take a taxi to their place, but..noooo, we said that we don`t have money for taxi so we took a bus without a ticket) and what happened. The next stop came with the ticket controllers.. Yeah, we tried to get out from this messy situation by not speaking English.. The old @#$%%^^^% controller said “you speak English but you don’t speak English”. Maybe because Justine said it sooo good “I don`t speak English”. After that they were talking about calling the police and stuff. Justine was swearing in Russian.. We didn`t have our passports with us so we had to pay 45 lei. Ahh. I had to give 40, because Justine had to give her last money to get out of this mess. After this we were so pissed.. Of course, who wouldn`t be.
So, we continued our way to the hosts home by taking another bus without ticket..My legs where shaking a bit. I`m not used to this kind of pressure. :D Hahaha. But this time we had a guide. A Romanian guy who spoke English and looked like a drug dealer.  He took us to the correct street and kind of left (you could always see him nearby). The whole time I thought that he`s going to take us to the wrong street, pull out a knife and say “now you give me all your money and stuff. Muahahha”, but it didn`t happen. Lucky us. :D
Our host (forgot the name) came towards us and took us in to his worm and nice apartment (really nice one). How did we get a host in Brasov-a guy who knows a guy who knows two guys. Like this, yeah!
Names..Yes, that’s a struggle. I only remember Gabi (Gabriel) because he said a funny reference to his name..
Basically the day was gone, we ate some taaaasty spaghetti and watched a movie, went to bed, got up early and went away.
Asa.

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