Celebracion de Pascua ....Y nos fuimos de pic-nic a la casa de Raluca una chica Rumana que trabaja en el mismo projecto que Maria Eugenia, una amiga Argentina....Raluca y su grupo de amigos me invitaron a pasar con ellos un dia a las afueras de Bucharest para celebrar Pascua. Tambien la noche anterior fuimos juntos a una iglesia a la medianoche para ver una de las tradiciones Rumanas, la mayoria de las personas se quedan afuera de la iglesia para escuchar la misa, luego a media noche se prende una candela y se pasa alrededor para prender las demas, todas las [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday, April 23 Groetjes from the Bezooyens! We’re in Germany right now, and I actually miss the Dutch language all around me! It was so incredibly fun... I just yattered and yacked away in Dutch to whoever would listen. It was even more fun when a man told Els that she had really lost her Dutch(her being a true-blooded Dutch girl), and then the next day Gerrit and I were in a cell phone store and a man asked us how many years we had lived in Holland. I told him 1 day, and that we were born and raised [View Full Entry]

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We made it to Romania! It took us 28 hours to get here, although we took a "slight" detour to Bavaria in southern Germany to visit Neuschwanstein, the legendary castle of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", built by Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. It was an amazing building, inside and out, although we could not take pictures of the inside. The whole thing cost 3.7 million marks, which was back in 1860! The mark used to be higher currency than the dollar, but I don't know about now. The castle on the inside is only one third finished as the king went [View Full Entry]

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Night one: We spent the first night in Belgium which was so cold the tents froze at night. I spent the night shivering and wondering where the nearest airport was to get the first flight home!! Night Two: Night two was spent at our first proper stop in Cologne. We had two nights there and had time to look at the spectacular Dom Cathedral and went for dinner at a traditional German restaurant which sold Sausage by the metre. Night 4: Night 4 was spent in Bamburg where we sampled the local smoky beer. It tasted rather like a pint [View Full Entry]

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BUCHAREST Bucharest es una mezcla interesante de edificios grises y aspecto comunista, palacios estilo frances, iglesias medievales, parques grandiosos para caminar (Herastrau & Cismigiu) y por supuesto edificios super modernos que no pueden faltar especialmente ahora que Rumania experimenta "los placeres" del Consumismo. Algo extrano es que en los parques es prohibido sentarse en el cesped por que si no te multan, en otras palabras imposible hacer un pic-nic....hmmmm!!!!! Esto entre otras cosas van para mi lista de Bizarre Things in Rumania.....coming up soon!!! Dicen que Bucharest fue fundada por un pastor de apellido "Bucur" - "Felicidad", en algun siglo fue [View Full Entry]

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The Monday we got back from Turkey, I was excited to see everyone and to be able to catch up with everyone and go for a drink later that evening. When I went to the office to meet Mikkel and give him his picture DVD from Berk and start to upload pictures, Connie informed us that everyone was going to see 10,000 BC tonight. It wasn’t exactly what I was hoping for, and I really didn’t have any interest in seeing it, but I wanted to spend time with everyone else, so I decided to go anyway. This was also the [View Full Entry]

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SIBIU, TRANSILVANIA (EUROPE CAPITAL OF CULTURE) Llegando a Sibiu por la madrugada en el midnight train desde Bucharest, aproximadamente 5 hrs. Curiosamente la unica forma de saber cual es la parada es viendo el tiquete y calculando la hora de llegada, no senales, no gritos o anuncios de llegada a alguna ciudad, y poca gente camina por los pasillos del tren....afortunadamente encontre a alguien que salio a fumar, "que curioso" y justo di con que esa era la parada..... Aparentemente Sibiu era el rey de todas las ciudades Saxonas en Transylvania (Brasov, Sighisoara, Targu Mures, Sibiel, etc) sirviendo como capital de [View Full Entry]

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Monday 7 April - Belgrade Panoramic view from the restaurant on the 18th floor, but not a lot to see. Got a bus into town, bought a map and some postcards, queued up at post office for stamps. Sat in the sun with a coffee to write them. I didn’t pay on the bus in either direction - the first was too full to move, and coming back the driver had no change. The people on the bus were very helpful and put me off opposite the hotel. Discovered there was a big supermarket right next to the hotel, and laid [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday 9 April - Pozarevac to Golubac, 87 km. Poor breakfast - but that was to be expected.l We had a police escort all day, not a bad thing as no-one could get lost! We visited the excavations at a Roman town, apparently the largest Roman town ibn the Balkans with 50,000 inhabitants. Near this was a huge plant generating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. Fired by powdered coal from nearby open-cast mines, carried there on immense conveyor belts. Impressive but not pretty! Most of the countryside was pretty ugly in the morning, mines and gravel pits and factories [View Full Entry]

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Last day in Brasov before heading to Turkey! It started off like any other in the hospital, and I worked with Beth, Mary, Sarah and Steffi. My favorite baby was on the 4th floor again, so I spent as much time with him as I could since he would probably be gone by the time I got home. After my shift, I said goodbye to everyone and that I would see them in a week, before heading to the office to email Gökhan about some last minute details. Gökhan wanted to know about the bus details for when we would be [View Full Entry]

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