We traveled by train and went through 4 countries on this trip, and saw many castles and ate many ice creams =D
We bought train passes that allowed us to travel whenever we wanted as long as we started from Galati in Romania, and we ended up in Bremen in Germany. We had 30 days to make use that route. It was a pretty sweet ticket.
So our path took us from: Bucuresti, Romania->Galati, Ro->Mastacani (my site), Ro->Sebes, Ro->Deva and Hunedoara Castle, Ro->Budapest, Hungary->Vienna, Austria->Salzburg->Austria->Bremen, Germany->Hanover, Germany->Oradea, Romania->Bucuresti, Romania
Again, all by train and sometimes we slept on the trains too. Sometimes we paid for the full bed, sometimes we had the reclining chairs you get in airplanes, and once we just slept all night on the train benches to save 80 Euros.
Here is me picking up Katie from the airport. I was right on time to pick her up. She's napping on the big box of goooodies she brought me =D
It contained 5lbs of Bull's Eye bbq sauce, 2 bottles of sparkling apple cider, a whole bunch of marshmellows and other fun surprises! I'm happy that nothing broke.
So I first dragged Katie to an environmental international conference in Galati. I'd been looking forward to this event all Winter and Spring and we'd planned it so Katie and I could both attend.
We stayed at a hotel, and here's Katie's Romanian breakfast. Yum yum, hot chocolate from a machine.
See! Here's the conference. I understood more than 1/2 this time! It was being translated from German to Romania and there was English sometimes. I tried my very best to translate for Katie. We had headsets and listened in on the translator.
The conference took place mostly at the Gradina Botanica Muzeu (the Botanical Garden Museum, which is also the city aquarium too). I like it there, and it has a beautiful view from the terrace. We also had our catered lunch there too. It was a very different atmosphere from my daily setting in the village.
We did our share of mingling with people from all backgrounds in Romania, and with some people from other countries too (this was an international conference).
Oh! About alternative wastewater treatment (examples from Austria) and solid waste management (because Romania is being forced to comply under deadline, and needs ideas of how to tackle this large problem).
During a coffee break, Katie and I paid a visit to the aquarium (we couldn't help it because we're science nerds at heart). They have few, but really well cared for displays.
pretty.
Yes. Our catfishes here are very large.
After that, we took a walk to the gardens. Then aliens landed and tried to befriend us.
OR, it's a coco cola promotion for girls to wear eye helments and give us free cans of sodas and eye patches.
Beleive what you want to.
Katie didn't like what they served her (it had delicious sauteed mushrooms), so we switched.
We were both VERY happy with desert. We also got wine, so I traded the dude across from me for his desert with my wine =D mauahahahaha
Here is the car that Stelian (one of the organizing staff members) was driving. I thought it was a funny car to be officially driving around.
ANYWAY, then I took Katie to my village to see my pets. Here are the chicks when they were sooo soo small. Tiny. Here's a horse cart.
Unfortunately, Katie caught...the flu? or more likely Strep throat when she got here. She got to my site and the symptoms started to hit her. It was better that she got sick at my place than while on the road. She was very sick while at my home and I mostly just let her sleep. Unfortunately, she didnt' get all better immediately, but we decided that we wanted to get on the road anyway. She's a trooper.
And look at ALLL the bacon themed foods I found her in Romania. The bacon chips lied. They tasted nothing like bacon and they lasted very much like Chinese Shrimp Chips (which also taste nothing like shrimp).
AND THE READ TRIP BEGINS......more to come
We bought train passes that allowed us to travel whenever we wanted as long as we started from Galati in Romania, and we ended up in Bremen in Germany. We had 30 days to make use that route. It was a pretty sweet ticket.
So our path took us from: Bucuresti, Romania->Galati, Ro->Mastacani (my site), Ro->Sebes, Ro->Deva and Hunedoara Castle, Ro->Budapest, Hungary->Vienna, Austria->Salzburg->Austria->Bremen, Germany->Hanover, Germany->Oradea, Romania->Bucuresti, Romania
Again, all by train and sometimes we slept on the trains too. Sometimes we paid for the full bed, sometimes we had the reclining chairs you get in airplanes, and once we just slept all night on the train benches to save 80 Euros.
Here is me picking up Katie from the airport. I was right on time to pick her up. She's napping on the big box of goooodies she brought me =D
It contained 5lbs of Bull's Eye bbq sauce, 2 bottles of sparkling apple cider, a whole bunch of marshmellows and other fun surprises! I'm happy that nothing broke.
So I first dragged Katie to an environmental international conference in Galati. I'd been looking forward to this event all Winter and Spring and we'd planned it so Katie and I could both attend.
We stayed at a hotel, and here's Katie's Romanian breakfast. Yum yum, hot chocolate from a machine.
See! Here's the conference. I understood more than 1/2 this time! It was being translated from German to Romania and there was English sometimes. I tried my very best to translate for Katie. We had headsets and listened in on the translator.
The conference took place mostly at the Gradina Botanica Muzeu (the Botanical Garden Museum, which is also the city aquarium too). I like it there, and it has a beautiful view from the terrace. We also had our catered lunch there too. It was a very different atmosphere from my daily setting in the village.
We did our share of mingling with people from all backgrounds in Romania, and with some people from other countries too (this was an international conference).
Oh! About alternative wastewater treatment (examples from Austria) and solid waste management (because Romania is being forced to comply under deadline, and needs ideas of how to tackle this large problem).
During a coffee break, Katie and I paid a visit to the aquarium (we couldn't help it because we're science nerds at heart). They have few, but really well cared for displays.
pretty.
Yes. Our catfishes here are very large.
After that, we took a walk to the gardens. Then aliens landed and tried to befriend us.
OR, it's a coco cola promotion for girls to wear eye helments and give us free cans of sodas and eye patches.
Beleive what you want to.
Katie didn't like what they served her (it had delicious sauteed mushrooms), so we switched.
We were both VERY happy with desert. We also got wine, so I traded the dude across from me for his desert with my wine =D mauahahahaha
Here is the car that Stelian (one of the organizing staff members) was driving. I thought it was a funny car to be officially driving around.
ANYWAY, then I took Katie to my village to see my pets. Here are the chicks when they were sooo soo small. Tiny. Here's a horse cart.
Unfortunately, Katie caught...the flu? or more likely Strep throat when she got here. She got to my site and the symptoms started to hit her. It was better that she got sick at my place than while on the road. She was very sick while at my home and I mostly just let her sleep. Unfortunately, she didnt' get all better immediately, but we decided that we wanted to get on the road anyway. She's a trooper.
And look at ALLL the bacon themed foods I found her in Romania. The bacon chips lied. They tasted nothing like bacon and they lasted very much like Chinese Shrimp Chips (which also taste nothing like shrimp).
AND THE READ TRIP BEGINS......more to come
