Romania
You wake up early, take a shower, go outside to start your day. First things first so you want to have breakfast.
Terraces are allready packed with men. You join in, place your order and while waiting for it to arrive, you look around. Ok, we are pretty sure it is 8 o'clock in the morning... so why do people have beers for breakfast?
Welcome to Romania.
After bringing a visit to Riga and it's Stalinist Architecture (like Latvias academy of sciences) triggered my interest in post communism, our next stop was Budapest. Earlier this year we where wandering through almost deserted streets. Apparently the first two weeks in the beginning of a new year are extremely calm. Luckely the very recommendable Lavender Circus Hostel was a big compensation for some of its emptiness.
Helas for me, post communist Budapest is almost non existing.
In the contrary Bucarest has a lot more to offer in the form of two inmates, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Outside of Bucarest little is to be found, could be I didn't really do the effort, after all, it is a vacation.
Transylvania gave me the impression to have disembarked in the middle ages with it's fortified churches, lack of asphalt, ancient old houses and horse drawn carriages... and beer that isn't cooled. The Dacia 1300 and names like Bucovina and Moldova did the rest of the trick. Add this to the breathtaking views in the countryside and this country has won me over.
Terraces are allready packed with men. You join in, place your order and while waiting for it to arrive, you look around. Ok, we are pretty sure it is 8 o'clock in the morning... so why do people have beers for breakfast?
Welcome to Romania.
After bringing a visit to Riga and it's Stalinist Architecture (like Latvias academy of sciences) triggered my interest in post communism, our next stop was Budapest. Earlier this year we where wandering through almost deserted streets. Apparently the first two weeks in the beginning of a new year are extremely calm. Luckely the very recommendable Lavender Circus Hostel was a big compensation for some of its emptiness.
Helas for me, post communist Budapest is almost non existing.
In the contrary Bucarest has a lot more to offer in the form of two inmates, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Outside of Bucarest little is to be found, could be I didn't really do the effort, after all, it is a vacation.
Transylvania gave me the impression to have disembarked in the middle ages with it's fortified churches, lack of asphalt, ancient old houses and horse drawn carriages... and beer that isn't cooled. The Dacia 1300 and names like Bucovina and Moldova did the rest of the trick. Add this to the breathtaking views in the countryside and this country has won me over.
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