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Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea April 27th 2008

Our first day in Romania. Easter Sunday. This morning we got together in the Centre of Hope, the main mission station here in Medias. We had lunch there with the team and then headed out to church in two tiny villages in the country in Lunca and Lodroman. In Lunca a single lady had been praying for a church for years, and now there was one established. She greeted the team with lilac flowers, oliebollen and cooked eggs. We carried on to another tiny little church with about fourteen people, mainly youth and very elderly. This is where they'll be building an outhouse as there is no water and no bathroom. They treated us to coffee and homemade goodies and more boiled eggs after the service. They were very friendly. One girl and boy were able ... read more
Father's House
Father's House
The Team has arrived!

Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea April 27th 2008

Some of you have asked about our return date; we are unable to reasonably change our tickets. Meaning, we have two tickets on Aeroplan which are absolutely not changeable before May 21. Thus, Julian and I will need to buy two new tickets for our return with Air Transat, which means that we need to transfer from Heathrow to Gatwick and spend a night in London to catch the next day flight. New tickets from London alone are about $2000, incl. tax, but not including our stay in london, transfer to Gatwick, as well as the two flights Amsterdam to London which can be around another 500 Euro. So really not feasible for returning two of us seven days earlier. Still, we gave Mark the choice of having us home earlier or taking him on a ... read more

Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea April 26th 2008

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 bankrupt, and died under mysterious circumstances. From there we drove into Austria and camped along the freeway close to Vienna. It was a very noisy night. The next day we started driving at 6:30 in ... read more
By the castle
Beautiful Bavaria
Schloss Neuschwanstein

Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea May 24th 2007

We spent the last couple of days trvelling from Bukk national park to the Romanian border. Once out of the hills in the north, Hungary is as flat as a pancake. The bridge over the motorway is the biggest hill we have gone over in 6 hours driving. We have come from one of the best campsites in Hungary in Bukk to the worst campsite in Hungary in Miskolc. The guy running it had the cheak to try and charge us 20 euro (twice the price of the best campsite). After investigating the rusty, filthy cold showers we haggled him down to have the price. Tonights campsite is a 'christian' campsite according to our guilde book, Not looking forward to asking them if there is a local pub to watch the camapions league final. Eldarado When ... read more
What....no horsecarts!!!!
I guess rules are made to be broken.
Beautiful Communist Architecture!!!!

Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea June 30th 2006

Day 41, 11th July. Püspokladány - Oradea (ROMANIA) - Tileagd I was up early enough to see the sunrise this morning with Scott, the other two were suffering from a bit of lethargy and it was 3 hours later before we eventually hit the road for the Romanian border. The weather had been too good to us and gave a very dry heat. Our road all the way was as straight as an arrow, but with one problem. That stupid Hungarian idea that bikes were banned on it along with horses and carts and tractors! We didn’t bother about this and piled along it all the way, 40 miles, the Romanian border with an hours stop for lunch on the way there. At the border you could still see the Romanian watchtowers along the length as ... read more
Foothills of Transyvannian
Rutted Romanian Roads
Into Transylvannia...

Europe » Romania » Crisana » Bihor » Oradea June 8th 2006

6/8/06 Oradea We had our second concert in Romania in one of the largest churches. The whole team stayed in an apartment on the top floor of the church. The youth group there has 200 with 150 that are dedicated to the church. Over 500 people (mainly youth) attended the concert. About 10 people sought salvation and there were many people crying in response to the message. I met with 3 American girls who are doing missionary work in Romania. One was only 17 and this is her second summer there working with babies in the hospital. Two of them were from Texas and the other was from Louisiana. 6/9/06 Ocnamures We had a concert in the local culture house. The pastor is in a band and his wife is an American. They met ten years ... read more
Sighisoara
Sighisoara
Sighisoara




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