Blogs from Banat, Romania, Europe - page 2

Dnes sme sa rozhodli len sa tak túlať po okolí, bez žiadneho špeciálneho cieľa. Troška sme zmokli, ale boli sme radi pretože tu stále praží slnko. Večer sme si kúpili víno a pozerali na západ slnka.... read more

Dnes náš čakalo ďalšie cestovanie do oblasti Banát, kde sa nachádzajú české dediny. Nechodia sem žiadne priame spoje a ani vlak, takže dostať sa sem bolo dosť obtiažne. V Petrošani sme prišli na autobusovú stanicu a začali zistovať nejaký spoj. Na stanici boli štyri nástupištia a k tomu jedna predajňa lístkov. Napriek tomu si nikdo nebol úplne istý z ktorého čísla náš autobus odchádza, prípadne kde by bolo najlepšie prestúpiť na ďalší. Po chvíľi dohadovania sa skupinky miestnych sa zhodli na jedom autobuse a ten prišiel asi tak za desať minút. V meste Severin sme prestúpili na ďalší autobus do Baile Herculane. V Baile sme si počkali na ďalší vlak do Iablanice. Na našu otázku ako sa dostať ďalej nám miestny odporúčali odísť na hlavnú cestu a niečo si stopnúť. Toto bolo naše prvé stopovanie v ... read more

It is sort of arrogant to just write like this into the universe. With 52,000 hits, someone must be reading, but it still feels a little arrogant to me. When I was a kid, my father kept a calendar over the sink in his bathroom. In the morning after his run, he would write down on the calendar, what he had done the day before. "Dinner at the Vintage. 4 miles; 28 minutes." "Skied Bear Valley. Grilled a filet Mignon. Wine and laughs in the Jacuzzi after." Maybe it was his way of saying, "I am still alive." He wanted to write something interesting on the calendar in the morning. If he just watched TV, drank 3 beers, and passed out, he would know he wasn't using the gift of time. Hard to tell with him ... read more

Timisoara. O scurta oprire de o noapte la intrarea in tara. Un oras mare, frumos, cu multe piete pietonale, in stil occidental, care te face sa mai revii si alta data. Am ales Pensiunea Uno, tarif 100ron, camera ok, spatioasa, TV, cu loc de parcare, chiar in fata. Este situata departe de centrul orasului, cam la 6km, dar cu aceasta ocazie am incercat sa vedem cat mai multe.... read more

20-6-2007 Get me to the Danube Damn! No places left in the sleeping wagon! I’d waited so long to start this journey. I didn’t want to retreat back to my baking 10th floor flat in one of Bucharest’s less select areas. Besides which, the amount of time before I had to leave for the UK was rapidly dwindling. Affairs at school where I was teaching out here in Romania had dragged on interminably as we tried to secure a place at another school for an unsatisfactory student. I took a seat in an ordinary compartment thinking that I could doze in there or, indeed, if it wasn’t very full, stretch out a little. As it turned out, the seats were all taken. In Romania there is seldom any question of sitting on a train minding your ... read more