Romania is naturalistically beautiful, and although public spaces are not as clean as in Hungary, basically they are much nicer in design and much better equipped technically than in our country. A good example is the metro (subway) in Bucharest: Huge LCD screens at the stations, a nice photography exhibition (!!) underground, clean everywhere and also the train itself is much more modern than in Budapest.
Big mountains in the West (we saw some snow even in June), vast flatlands in the East (which I don't like in general but after the mountains it was a relief to see it), and now in Tulcea, the Danube-delta... So it's different everywhere and beautiful. Only the half-built and abandoned, and the fully built but half-collapsed buildings ruin the scenery at places.
Soo, what happend in the past 3 days when we didn't write.
We went scytheing (is this how you write this word?):
On this picture still on Hungarian lands :) But then Judit's sister took us to Oradea, Romania, where we started hitch-hiking and pretty quickly we got to the highway starting from Cluj-Napoca, from where we got to Bucharest. In Bucharest we had accommodation at Alex's (from CouchSurfing), whom we didn't meet at all. When we got there to the address he's given us there was nobody and Alex didn't answer his phone either. We rang the doorbell, it didn't work, we knocked, no answer, so tried the door, it was open, we went in, there was noone, we heard noises from a room, we knocked, no answer, I opened the door, there was a guy in a big room with nothing just a TV, an Xbox console and a racing car-like chair and a guy in it, playing some racing game. I asked about Alex, he responded in English something like "I'd tell you he'd be back soon but honestly I don't have the faintest idea. Just make yourself at home." So we did. Later we met the other guys living in the flat too and they told us it's kind of a squat because it's dangerous for collapsing in case of an earthquake so it'd been evacuated. But they didn't know about Alex either so we went out for a beer.
While having our beers we checked out Casa poporului, one of Earth's biggest (it's bigger than the Pentagon!), and according to Wikipedia, the world's heaviest building.
By the time we got back to the flat we got very tired and fell asleep. In the morning when we left we saw a guy with a beard on the bed, but it never turned out whether it was Alex :)
We were soon taken to Slobozia (thanks to our big INDIA sign :) where we almost had to stay for the night because we were dropped off at the worst place ever, but with a fantastic luck somebody going to a completely different way from where we were standing just stopped and took us to Tulcea. But really, the guy just drove 50 meters on the road where we were hitchhiking (the wrong way as it turned out), U-turned and went to Tulcea, our destination. :)
This all happened the day before yesterday but we're still in Tulcea as it turned out that the ferries to Sfantu Georghe only go once in 2-3 days. So we're going tomorrow at noon.
When we arrived to Tulcea we took a break at the gas station at the side of the city, and we forgot our INDIA sign there. It was very important for us so we went back for it the next day. This is me taking it out from the dumpster (it looked rather awful when we found it):
Our losses: till now we lost a box of matches, a pen and some hair rubbers but what hurts is that we left one of my t-shirts at Judit's sister's place, I have no idea how to get it back. Till then, I have only 1 t-shirt. :/ I'm angry at myself for being such a hippie, always losing some stuff. But at least I have my passport, not like the other time when I lost it in Western Sahara on our trip to Bamako, Mali. Since then I take care of my passport as my life. I got the t-shirt as a sponsorship and I loved it too, but I have a slight chance that someone could send it after me someplace.
So this was it for now, we'll write again in a couple days. No worries, in Sfantu Gheorghe we only have to fear the mosquitoes :)
