Rain, but no snow, in Romania

Our first stop on Spring Break '07 was Bucharest, Romania. We left Alexandria at 9:00pm, drove to Cairo, took a 4:00am flight to Milan to catch a connection to Bucharest. We were exhausted and nearly incoherent by the time we arrived at 1:30 in the afternoon. After much ado, we rented a car, sat in rush hour traffic and finally made it into the city to look for a hotel room. Unfortunately, every hotel we had bookmarked in our Lonely Planet was either full or closed down! By 7:00 in the evening with the rain pouring down, we must have looked desperate because a kind Romanian pedestrian we had stopped to ask for directions hopped in our car and led us to a vacant hotel. All's well that ends well! With only a few days in Romania, we divided our time between Bucharest and Transylvania. I vant to suck your blood! And of course, we had to visit the grave of the famous Count Dracula (really named Vlad Tepes)... Even though it meant paying an exorbitant amount of money to have two boys row a canoe 100 feet to the island where he's reportedly buried AND having our tires flattened by the gypsies who stayed behind! It's just one story after another in Romania...

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