Romanian Rant
As Bab's sang " Mem'ries, light the corners of my mind" and before that light grows dim and I soon forget all our adventures from the 10 days we spent in Romania here are a few that have not grown dusty and weak:
-Romanian Driving! We soon learnt never to sit up the front of the bus so as not to be in constant fear of our lives. They pretty much play chicken with lories and what ever happens to be oncoming. Here is a nice example of the fine parking and general driver courtesy we witnessed:
A lot of stuff is falling apart in Romania. And a lot of stuff is being rebuilt to. With no particular rhyme or reason to it. Apparantly people will wake up to half a road turned up with no warning at all. This was a house in Sinaia.
This building in Brasov still has the bullet holes from the fighting that went on in the revolution in 1989. Chilling stuff.
Typical scene from the train window. Peasant life.
The trains looked like they were from the 60's (and probably were) but damn, the conductors had spiffy uniforms!
Public safety is not a huge concern here. We climbed up 140 (or something like it) rickety old stairs and ladders to get to the top of this bell tower in Sibiu, the european capital of culture for 2007. This was actually one of the better towers we climbed up.
Apparantly bugles are a bit of a problem here. This was in Sighisoara the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)
This is Andrew half way up Mt Bucegi in the Carpathian mountains. We climbed from 1450 metres to 2000 metres. Andrew realised he had quite a bad case of Vertigo on this hike. I think I was trying to give him an inspirational speech at this point.
As before for more photos go here
-Romanian Driving! We soon learnt never to sit up the front of the bus so as not to be in constant fear of our lives. They pretty much play chicken with lories and what ever happens to be oncoming. Here is a nice example of the fine parking and general driver courtesy we witnessed:
A lot of stuff is falling apart in Romania. And a lot of stuff is being rebuilt to. With no particular rhyme or reason to it. Apparantly people will wake up to half a road turned up with no warning at all. This was a house in Sinaia.
This building in Brasov still has the bullet holes from the fighting that went on in the revolution in 1989. Chilling stuff.
Typical scene from the train window. Peasant life.
The trains looked like they were from the 60's (and probably were) but damn, the conductors had spiffy uniforms!
Public safety is not a huge concern here. We climbed up 140 (or something like it) rickety old stairs and ladders to get to the top of this bell tower in Sibiu, the european capital of culture for 2007. This was actually one of the better towers we climbed up.
Apparantly bugles are a bit of a problem here. This was in Sighisoara the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler (Dracula)
This is Andrew half way up Mt Bucegi in the Carpathian mountains. We climbed from 1450 metres to 2000 metres. Andrew realised he had quite a bad case of Vertigo on this hike. I think I was trying to give him an inspirational speech at this point.
As before for more photos go here
Labels: Eastern Europe Trip
posted by Sarah at
9:37 PM
1 Comments:
Don't lie to us Sars. It was you who destroyed that lovely old building in some kind of berserker rage, wasnt it?
And Andi, vertigo, really? Its not even that good a song. Although her custumn is kinda cool.
Congrats on your further travels peeps.
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