Romania!

Well here are some thoughts from me on this country so far and what I've done!

I flew in on Saturday and spent the day gandering around the city of Bucharest.  I spent quite some time around the old historic city centre.  Took some shots etc!  My camera is again having a wonderful time.  I wandered back to my hostel in good time before dusk and went to bed super early as I was exhausted from the zero amount of sleep that I had gotten from the red eye flight from London.

On Sunday - I managed my first mini-bus adventure in Romania to Curtea de Arges!  It's famous for the large monistarty which was gorgeous!  Well -- that was pretty much the only thing to see in Curtea de Arges -- if I was more adventurous - I should have hitchhiked to the Pieroni Fortress castle which was about 20 KM out; however the weather was completely rubbish so I didn't really bother too much.  I ended up taking an earlier minibus back to Bucharest then I had originally planned and got back around 4pm.  I hit up the supermarket and bought some frozen veggies for dinner!  That's right - the diet doesn't stop while I'm on holiday!

Then I woke up pretty early for the train to Brasov on Monday morning!  the 3 hr slow but very nice train that is!  the views from the train were beyond belief and I couldn't believe my eyes when we were near this city called Predeal that there was snow in the ground!  What...SNOW on the ground.  As we ventured through there - I was excited to know that the snow had left -- thank goodness!  the weather is about 45-50 degrees here so it's pretty chilly.  I got to my hostel around 12pm and when I finally got here after the 45 minute walk with my pack on -- they didn't have my reservation!  wonderful...well not so good when I realized that it was my fault and that I booked the wrong night!  OMG!  so dumb.  well all was well since they still had nights available for tonight and tomorrow at least and then I will most likely stay here a 3rd night and maybe a 4th.  Well I took a mini cat nap and then went out to explore the city!  Brasov is a beautiful place and I was plesantly surprised by it's beauty!  it's super quaint!

tomorrow I will see the dracula castle !