Ion Ciorici

After a very comfortable journey to Moldova in very comfortable ***** bus (with individual seats inside (of course not adjustable), with option to carry somebody’s bag in front and below your seat in order to have a better aerodynamic coefficient inside the bus, and exclusively which was stopping every 5th hour in order to survive to next customs point I thought it’s a good idea to change the old traditional way of reaching Prague by another less overcrowded way of transportation.

Usually I am going to Prague through Ukraine and Poland:

This time we went through Romania, Hungary and Slovakia:

So agreeing with Vlad on 14th we left again our motherland with the hope to find a better life in so called European Union, which except its fancy flag everywhere is almost the same as Moldova.

After leaving Moldova, we entered Romanian custom point, which wasn’t showing any evidences that we are already in EU – an old dirty building from Ceausescu’s age, no road at all, but fancy flags everywhere. Romania is really a clean country, everywhere clean roads, but some how this was evident on our car .

On our way to Prague, Vlad decided to visit one of his friend in Galati (RO) so after about 300km it was a great opportunity to rest a little bit. From Galati we took the way through Brasov and really was a nice road, something from a Norwegian fairy tale.

After hundreds of serpentines we arrived in Sibiu (RO) which was during 2007 European capital of culture. Sibiu has always been the centre of Romania’s German minority since medieval times. Even today, it contains Romania’s largest German community, and, due to initiatives by the local government, the Germanic feel of the area has been maintained, even the accent of local citizens is very interesting. We have managed to visit only the main squares and it’s really amazing something like Prague, but smaller. Everywhere medieval restaurants, pubs, gas lamps.

When we where leaving the main square, Vlad’s friend showed us the famous bridge in Sibiu so-called “lie bridge” – where not only teenagers where and still telling how they fall in love with their ladies. Actually it’s a good idea to call in the same way Nuselsky most in Prague .
After spending one night in Sibiu was time to leave our friendly and hospitable Romanian-Germans and meet less kindly Romanian-Hungarians, who decided to take a short movie with radar of our car of course without our permission. Loosing 3 points and more than 20minutes we decided not to multiply to 2 anymore all the road indicators.

We got even a remark from the local policeman to wash our car, so they can read properly our registration plates, so here is the result:

Hungarian customs were less friendly also, they afforded to wait us for 5 minutes!!! of course my terrorist face is real danger for the whole EU. Slovaks and Czechs were the most hospitable one, because they made they right decision by going to Schengen city, hope its a nice city. Now I am in Prague for 2 days, tomorrow one exam and on 18th I am on my way to Sverige, almost 2000 km through Germany, Denmark, Norway.