Blogs from Mures, Transilvania, Romania, Europe - page 2

Den pred odchodom este rozmyslanie na ktorom vlaku pojdeme do budapesti. Bud skoro rano s tym ,ze v galante budeme cakat pol hodinu na pripoj a v novych zamkoch cca 10 min alebo na 8/47, s 3 minutovym prestupom v galante ale az s hodinovym cakanim v novych zamkoch. Nakoniec vyhrava alternativa c.2 Konecne uz aj na trase sered - galanta (resp trnava) premava novy dvojposchodovy vlak, hned sa clovek citi kulturnejsie. Sprievodcovy ukazujem mobil s etiketom, nacitava mu ho bez problemov (mam puknuty displej). Je vidiet ,ze sa v tom moc nevyzna,bo druhy etiket ani nepyta, len trosku dlhsiu dobu pozera do svojho stroja. Do galanty prichadzame s malym meskanim ale meska aj nas pripoj,tak pohodovy zrychleny prestup. Opat novy dvojposchodak a opat nie moc rozumejuci cvakac listkov etiketom. Zas nacital len jeden etiket a ... read more

Dnešný deň sme sa rozhodli stráviť na bicykloch a navštíviť okolité dedinky v ktorých sa nachádzajú opevnené saské kostoly. Pán u ktorého sme bývali nám sľúbil bicykle, ukázal nám ich až ráno a tak nám už neostávalo nič iné ako to s nimi prežiť. Môjmu bicyklu nefungovala prehadzovačka čo bolo praktické hlavne pri stúpaní, teda fungovala, ale prepínala sa náhodne keď sa jej chcelo. Stánikov bicykel zas nemal úplne funkčné brzdy a tak si musel občas dopomáhať nohou. Prvá zástavka bol Biertan - tento kostol bol najväčší a najkrajší zo všetkých okolitých opevnených kostolov. Potom sme sa dostali do Copša Mare. V hradbách tohto kostolo žila rodina a tá nam ochotne kostol otvorila a pustila nás dovnútra. V tejto dedinke sme si dali prestávku, sedeli a pozerali čo sa tu deje. Po pol hodine dokonalého "skapal ... read more

The train to Sighisoara cost $18 and going back only cost $6. The expensive train was 30 minutes faster. It also had AC but the windows are all down on the cheap train and a good breeze is blowing through, so that doesn’t seem to make a difference at this time of year. But the people in the cheap train are an order of magnitude different. They are not as visually appealing and several are missing a tooth or two. They had to throw a couple of guys off who apparently boarded without tickets. When I opened my computer to work on the cheap train, people sat and stared at me, like I was from outer-space. Nobody looked twice this morning on the expensive train. A woman I met in Bucharest told me that I had ... read more

We went into Vlad Tepes house where he was born and is now a restaurant. We ate there. We went up a bell tower and I found my name. - Sofia On the way to our next destination, Sighisoara, we stopped by 2 small towns on the way to our next stop Sighisoara. The towns were Prejmer and Harman and both had really cool fortified churches. These were Saxon churches that were surrounded by huge walls to protect them. They were more like fortresses. Really cool looking. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It was now time to go to Sighisoara, the birth place of Vlad Tepes aka "Dracula". This was another medieval town. We stayed right in the center of the old town at Burg Hostel. We had planned to stay 2 nights here, but daddy heard there were a ... read more

Hi All, We have had a great time since I last updated. We left Lake Balaton we went to Budapest (Would have stayed longer but the English bloke we met had cabin fever and wouldnt piss off). Budapest was lovely and easy to get around......in bare feet!. Just got into town and in the old section i.e miles from the shops and my flipflops (thongs to any aussies) broke. Luckily Scott was wearing my shoes - (make of that what you will!)--(Well they are hiking sandals actually)) so he gave me those and he walked in bare feet across the hot surface until I got some new ones (Which was a drama!! I mean F**king hell!! I'm standing in the burning tar and she was worried bout how they LOOK!!). We had a whole day in ... read more