It’s a good thing that Bucharest is kind of boring. I needed to focus on figuring out how to get out. I still need a bunch of days outside of the Schengen zone and Romania was not going to help. I looked at the Rome2Rio.com website and got to work. It is an 8 hour bus ride to Sofia, Bulgaria.…
I have been to Bucarest before. It was a quick stop over in January of 2020. I had taken the all night bus from Bulgaria, arrived before sunrise walked around with my luggage til my room was ready. Went back out for dinner then back to the room early because I was exhausted. When I was younger, I would take…
Once the air raid sirens went quiet, it was just another normal travel day. Time to get out of Ukraine and move on down the highway. I was heading to Bucharest, Romania. It’s the next biggest city in the area. There are some more Black Sea Beach resort towns in approximately the same direction but definitely no reason to be…
Once I found it, Brasov’s old town is really nice. I generally get tired of the European old-towns and Brasov is probably no different, It is pretty much just a long pedestrian walkway with some side alleys but it was big enough and enough variety to hold my interest for the couple of nights I found myself in town. My…
It was an easy walk to Bucharest’s train station from the guest house since I already did it the day before. From there, it was an easy trip to the Transylvanian city of Brașov, about a hundred miles north. A pretty little town once you get out of the non touristy section. Which I found out the hard way is…