Trip In
romania
Friday :
Good evening, it’s 7.00 pm, we are on Friday, I take the
bus.
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| Wonderful Bus |
Unfortunately, I miss to stop in Cluj Napoca, it was sleepy.
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| 7km by walk direction Cluj Napoca |
So I stop 7km farer, so let’s go for walk… 1 hour 30min
later finally, I’m in the center, that beautiful by night. I search the bus station
but without map at 4am, it’s really not easy.
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| Cluj Napoca by night |
After one hour in the center I find one map, “Oups” I walked
too much, I have to go back.
After 45minutes to walk and one kebab for just 1.66€
(awesome cheap).
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| KEBAB 1.66€ |
I arrive at the bus
station, there I ask for go to Buru, she say me 1 pm, but you miss the first,
it was at 6 am, and I say , “it’s just 5.55am” , no she answer me , “here you
have to put one hour more “jetlag” :p.
So let’s go to the hotel next to the station for sleep few
hours.
Saturday:
I'm waking up after a short sleep, and direction bus
station, there I wait again one hour and during this time one girl try to cell
me one Samsung Galaxy S II for 100€.
In the bus, I hear “Bella” by Maître Gims, it’s French song :p, that’s funny to hear that here in Romania.
We cross different cities and I ask myself, it’s Buru or not
… HEYYY this one is Buru!! I jump outside the bus, but What the F**, its lost
place! After to have visit the amazing center of Buru, I find one old women and
she tell me the direction for go to Torockò.
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| Buru center |
Let’s go for walk 8km
or maybe find one driver enough nice for drop me there J. After 3 km, MIRACLE !! one
car stop and bring me to Torockò and ask for me to the local people where is
the Castle. They leave me just front of the way direction the ruins.
At the end of the way, 2 km later I’m finally in the Castle!
Lonely at the top, surrounded by mountains, this amazing feeling to be on the
top of the world.
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| "On the top of the world" =P |
I take some pictures, the sun start to fall behind mountains,
and the weather become colder, it’s time to go down...
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| Torockò Castle |
I take the road direction, return to Torockò, after 3km and
45minutes to walk, I arrive to Torockò, and find the place for sleep checked on
internet before my travel. What the F*** it’s full so direction to try another
place, and another, and another , in the last one is not possible but the old
owner call someone and find me one couch where it will be possible for me to
sleep.
She give the number of this place, and her card with her
phone number if I have any problem.
I search this place during 15minutes and finally, I find it
!
The guy tell me to wait few minutes and give me one room
just so cute … It’s 7.30pm I fall in sleep, the last time I go to bed at that
time maybe I was 3 years old.
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| Sweety bed Room |
Sunday :
6.15 am wake up. I leave my room, nobody is wake up, so I
leave there one letter, on which one I try to write some few Hungarian words,
and in side I put 30lei, the price for this night. I hope they found this
letter and nobody took that before the owner
:/. Because really thanks it was
a good night.
And let’s go for try to catch one car for Cluj Napoca or
walk 70km…
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| Romanian Sun rise |
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| Auto stop =P |
After 1 hour 10minutes, I arrive at Buru, I take the
direction of Cluj Napoca (60km) and Turda (19km), I walk on the road and after
3 km, one car direction Turda stop and bring me there! During the way, we try
to speak together but me in Franco-hungarian-English and them in Romanian we don’t
have to much success for understand what we say J.
But she explain me they don’t want my money, they bring me
there because it’s helpful and she is religious, so help each other is naturel!
The husband and his cute wife stop at the church and them son,
bring me to the share car station, he find me someone who go to Cluj Napoca,
and leave me there.
Ahah finally I’m not so unlucky, let’s go to Cluj Napoca!
After only 30minutes I arrive at Cluj, I pay just 5 lei for this travel.
I go
to the train station, on my way I stop in different shop for buy beer and
chocolate from Romania. One guy security guy come to me and ask me what I do
during 5 minutes front of beers, I answer him “I search a good one!”, so I find
everything, chocolate and beers.
Let’s go to the train station, there I ask
for my, and she say me “It’s ok but you have to pay one sit, in this train you
have to reserve one sit”, What The F** in Szeged everything was ok…
One nice girl saw me and come to help me, she speak English
and explain what is the problem, but I have to pay so 3euros … u_u”
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| train station Cluj Napoca |
Now I’m sit and I will wait my train during 4hours
30minutes.
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| Mode homeless people :p |
I stay sit during 2 hours, and I decide to walk and take
some pictures.
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| funny picture :p |
After my shooting, I go back to the train station and I see
one guy who give some food to pigeons.
Few minutes later, I move and he ask me something, so in
French I answer him sorry but I’m French and I don’t understand what you said.
I sit few meters next to him and he try again to tell me
something. I ask him if he speak Hungarian and the answer is “yes”.
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| Joseph and pigeons |
So let’s go for speak
a bit with him, and then he ask me where I come from, where I go now, what I do
in Cluj Napoca, what I do in Szeged. And after this quiz like a real police
man, I decide to ask him few words in Romanian. He teach me the number 1 till
10, how to say “hello, bye, I love you, and thanks”.
During this lesson that’s cool, no stereotype, no border
line, he is 42, I’m 22 years old, I met him 10 minutes ago, but we share
together “normally”. We talk so well every two that I do not realize the time
passing and my train is arrived. I say thanks to joseph for this great time and
I go in my train direction Szolnok, Hungary!
The train
whistle and I check for the last time of my week end the view of Cluj napoca
behind my window, 1, 2, 3... That end and Cluj disappears bit by bit…
After a few minutes, with the rhythm of the
movement of the train, and the chatter of old Romanian beside me, I fall asleep.
At my wake up, just 45minutes spent, but front of
my eyes, behind the window the landscape is amazing, mountains, trees with
their autumn colours, fields, rivers, that’s just really beautiful.
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| Fields in Romania |
I take some pictures and what?! I see write next to
the road “Cluj Napoca 76km”, after 2 hours and 30 minutes, we travelled just
76km… yes Romanian trains are really slow, but anyway because behind my “TV”, I
can admire real beautiful landscapes. The river runs few meters next to the
rail way, following mountains and WOHOW! Just at the end of one tunnel, hiding
behind trees I perceive one awesome waterfall, unfortunately I don’t have time
to take my camera for take one picture but believe me, it was just paradisiac
view. Just 50 meters next to the water one wooden house stand between the
mountain and the river, people who live here they are lucky! And when I see
that I realise what the nature did is just amazing sometimes, but 5 minutes
later Aaargh!! Forest destroy, truck and ugly bridge, destroying one beautiful
place for put one road in this lost place… why ?! u_u”
I take my bag for write this words and OH! one
paper fall at my foot and that my sit reservation did in Szeged… U_u” sometimes
I’m genious, but often not at the good moment.
If you don’t know how to spend your money, tell me
I have some ideas…
6.10pm the train stop at the border line, the
controller ask my paper, I say “wait minute” and she answer directly “French?”
My accent is really recognizable…. U_u”
She check my passport and say thanks and “au
revoir”… So cute… :p
Behind me, I leave Romania, I take my last pictures
and the train continue his way.
The sun set, the rails march tirelessly, I close my
eyes and wait Szolnok.
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| Sun set in Romania |
We are not
arrived, I check my watch, I have 2hours and 30minute till to arrive in Szeged,
I check my phone and “Oups”…. “jetlag” it’s 3hours 30minutes before
arrived there…OK….
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| How to sleep in the train |
The train stop again, I ask one controller, 1hour 30minutes
till Szolnok….
9.00pm finally arrived at Szolnok… And after an AMAZING
sprint I catch my train for Cégled, and irony, in the last train I bought two
sits and in this one I have to stay stand because I don’t have place some place
:p u_u”.
Perfect arrived at Cégled, the train for Szeged is just
front of me, I leave one for enter in the other, 9.25pm Szeged I come ! And WHOUHOU in this train, I find one place
for sit in first class :D.
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| =D |
10.51pm arrived in Szeged finally…. It was longue but I did
it !
11pm arrived at home! Home sweet home! It was crazy week end
:D
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| How resume my travel =P |
It’s the end of my travel in Romania, I go in my bed…
There I met some really nice people and despite my vocal
language not enough I was able communicate with them. In the world lot of are
countries, lot of are languages, but for sure one things it’s same everywhere,
to be nice is universal.
And doesn’t matter your accent, when you speak with your
soul, everyone understand.
Bossard Nicolas 21.10.2013
