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The Budapest Marathon

Last minute stop in Budapest as we traveled from Romania back to Germany.Typically, we are able to speed see all a city’s sites in a day or so as they are often within blocks of the town square where we try to stay. Considering we don’t shop and rarely restaurant, this is not usually aContinue reading “The Budapest Marathon”

Timisoara, the Revolution will not be televised

Out of Transylvania on to our last stop Timisoara in the Banat, another area in Romania ( like most of European History) with a succession of rulers and mix of cultures this time with a bit more Hungarian and Serbian tossed in. What drew us to Timisoara was that this was where the 1989Continue reading “Timisoara, the Revolution will not be televised”

A Taste of Three Transylvania Towns

It’s understandable that vampires have chosen to spend their eternal lives in Transylvania, as it is one of the most beautiful areas (countryside and cities) we have visited. While our visit to Transylvania was short-lived it definitely got in our blood. Our first stop, Brasov, had it’s own “Hollywood sign”, and deservedly so, as itContinue reading “A Taste of Three Transylvania Towns”

Bucaresti

(this was in the old word-press format, sorry it looks pretty bad) We headed out of Tulcea to Bucharest on what we thought would be an uneventful 5 hour mini-bus ride. However, we were soon fascinated by the local life. The main road initially paralleled the Danube and it was dotted with fisherman standing byContinue reading “Bucaresti”

Delta takes flight

Our stop in Constanta, Romania was just like a ship passing in the night since we just stayed about 14 hours as we were catching an early train to Tulcea, Romania Our exposure to the town limited to walking along the same 2.9 km between the bus/train station and our place. We had enough timeContinue reading “Delta takes flight”

Into the Cyrillic, Part 2: The Black Sea

(this was done with the old WordPress format and looks really bad, sorry) Over the mountains (and appropriately, Metallica’s “Fade to Black”” blasting from the bus driver’s sound system), the Black Sea came into view and we began our 10 days of traveling along almost the entire Eastern European coast of the Black Sea, fromContinue reading “Into the Cyrillic, Part 2: The Black Sea”

Into the Cyrillic Part 1: Bulgaria Interior

This post was done in the old Word-Press format, sorry, it looks really bad. Since liberation from communism in 1989, Bulgaria has had 30 bumpy years, due to post communist bureaucratic corruption, which has inhibited development and impeded recovery. Bulgaria has the “award” of being the most corrupt country in the European Union. Although partContinue reading “Into the Cyrillic Part 1: Bulgaria Interior”

Portugal Pops the Cork

NOTE: This was imported from the older format and looks really bad. Sorry. We’ve had buses stop to get gas a few times, randomly stop for cigarette/bathroom breaks or to drop off or pick up someone in the middle of nowhere, but our trip out of Santiago de Compostela to Porto had a first –Continue reading “Portugal Pops the Cork”

Walk This Way

(Old Word-Press format so it looks pretty bad, sorry) We left Saarbrucken, not via Luxembourg City but out of the smaller of Frankfurt’s two airports, Frankfurt Hahn. Took a mini-bus from Saarbrucken through acres of mustard fields. Of course, Frankfurt was surrounded by mustard. We started our Iberian Peninsula trip at the finish line-Santiago de Compostela inContinue reading “Walk This Way”

There is more then one city in Germany?

Saarbrucken is in the middle of nowhere, which means, in Europe, it’s only 1-2 hours from everything This gives us multiple airport and airline options to get back to it. We recently have been using Ryan Air the super discount airlines that we love and hate. Their slogan should be “you pay literally nothing soContinue reading “There is more then one city in Germany?”