One week in!

DAY 8-9

Right now it is day 9 and we are sitting in a camp sight in Bucharest in Romania. Yesterday morning (day 8) we woke from our bush camp and drove 6km to a little town. We had time to walk around this town and see the sights. The problem was that the castle did not open until 12 so we had time to kill. We walked all over this little town up and down its hills seeing its churches and then finally the cafes opened and we went for a nice morning coffee. you see we arrived at the town (name unknown to me) at 8am in the morning we had until 10am to occupy ourselves. In a little town on a Sunday this is a long time as most places are not open or closed. We enjoyed our welcome coffee shop opening.         

When it was time we returned to the truck, next we were heading to Castle Bran, right in the middle of Hungary.  This castle is the supposed home of Count Dracula from the Bram Stoker book. For the past 2 days I (Glen) have been reading Bram Stokers Dracula to see what this would be like and well thee description given in the book is nothing how the castle actually is. It was all fiction and so i was not expecting much in the way of accuracy. When we arrived at the castle it was really busy around it but not so much in it. This could be due to it being a Sunday and families were happy being out in the open air. The walk around the castle was really interesting and not because i had just read the book but because as castles go this was a very different one to all the others we had been into in the UK. There was no grand entrance or big dinning and entertaining halls. It felt very private and homely. It had some really cool little walk ways and hidden stairs. Although the doors were small at times an i had to duck under a lot of them. I would totally recommend going there and it was well worth the 20 LEI (4 Euros) to get in and walk around.

After the castle walk we got some lunch, You will notice we will often go to get lunch as the tour provides us with 2 meals a day being breakfast and dinner. So lunch is our time to eat what we like where we can get it. You will all be happy to know that for lunch Kieran had a Sandwich and an ice cream and Glen had a Kebab! or as they call them a shaorma. They are very similar to the Greek kebab of a gyros with the chips in the middle. for those of you interested mine was made in a wrap with mayo and ketchup on the bottom a layer of lettuce and then a few hot chips added in, next went the chicken from the kebab roll. Then onto the chicken went some gherkins and it was all rolled up. It was alright but a bit of a disappointment  the flavour just was not there for me. Not sure what it was but this on lacked something. I doubt i will give it another try but this has not been my favourite kebab.

We arrived at the camp ground and with much effort to get the truck in we had arrived. We were staying in this camp ground for 2 nights. There was an option to upgrade for only 16 LEI a night. We jumped on this as it was to be a room with a bed, sure it had no shower or toilet but for only 4 euro extra a night why wouldn’t we jump on it! We had a wonderful night sleep so much so that Kieran missed breakfast.

As i write it is now day 9. Today we did not do much except catch up on our admin of blogs, diaries and budgets. It is gr8 to have time to do this as we cannot do it on the bus and its hard at times to get some quiet time to just sit and write. we could have caught a bus into Bucharest but we chose not to and spent our time walking to the local supermarket to get some lunch after we did our admin work. Ahhh lovely.

We are still amazed that is has only been one week since we set off. We have flown through Europe which suits us as we have seen it and happy to get onto the next part. We have one week down and 23 more to go. Oh how i fear they will fly by just as quick as the last one.

 

Chat soon readers.

 

Glen and Kieran