10:45 was the planned time for leaving the hostel, however once we had found Justine and accumulated another member of our traveling party it was after eleven. We opted to forgo breakfast for an extra half an hour in bed, it sounds like nothing, but when you're living in dorm rooms half an hour is a lot of time. Justine and Dan, both Americans were both heading to Bucharest so we all decided to go together. They are both catching flights out of Bucharest this evening so they stored their bags in our hostel until they left. We had to catch a bus to the train station which left us very short of time. When the train arrived we sat in a second class carriage that was unoccupied and settled down for a nice journey. We
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