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…
The overnight bus to Bucharest, Romania wasn’t quite overnight. It dropped me off in the city center long before sunrise and Bucharest is not a 24 hour town that I was finding. I definitely was not rested because the first thing I really remember was being the first customer at coffee shop on an otherwise dark and lonely street. My google…