We were just leaving Hungary on last contact.... Drove into Romania expecting potholes like craters, cops dodgy like in Donegal and more Gypsies than at a horse fair. Found sophisticated cities of Transylvania, friendliness like Ireland's famous for, Ok campsites, unspoilt Black Sea beaches, depopulated Danube Delta, and that remote mobile antenna sites make good camping locations. Highlight was a very peasant experinence in Carpathian foothills: Having gone off road to find start of hiking trail and got a bit lost in a village with population 260, stopped to ask man standing outside his (not so) humble abode for directions. He went in to get his glasses and came out with them and his wife who immediatley told us what age they were, showed us her garden and sat us down. A beer, a few shots
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