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14 July 2023
As we had our breakfast in our room, we both received a public service alert on the phone for high winds and some rain. Yep, it was happening outside already and was expected to last till after 1000. We waited for the weather to clear further before heading out around 1030. Today, we wanted to […]
13 July 2023
Elusive bus tickets We woke to strong morning sun around 0630. The ground appeared wet from rain earlier. I headed around 0715 to a supermarket to get some fruit, milk and yoghurt for breakfast. By the time I had showered, shaved and did some planning, it was around 1000 despite my early start. The information […]
12 July 2023
Above: View from our Uskudar cafe while killing time. It was a repeat of yesterday morning in that Kim went sightseeing without me. This time it was Istanbul’s Roman Basilica Cistern, which I had only been to last year. With no queues soon after its opening time of 0900, he was back in no time. […]
22 June 2018
The alarm woke us at 0530 and we walked to the station at 0600 leaving some time for coffee and sandwich at the station. Our train to Bucharest originated from Budapest Keleti station and was a few minutes early. We were seated in the last wagon. On my explorations during the journey, I wandered to […]
21 June 2018
We had another late start today; not good considering we have to wake early tomorrow for the 0643 train to Bucharest. In case we weren’t able to find a taxi tomorrow morning, we thought we’d check out the 11 minute walk to the station. Once the station was in sight, we decided to continue by […]
20 June 2018
Today we only have to get to Sibiu not so far away. We had allowed the morning free here in Sighisoara. We had a leisurely start before grabbing breakfast in the town square. As we didn’t find anywhere that did breakfast per se, we settled on a toasted sandwich each; one with ham and cheese […]
19 June 2018
We had booked the rental car till 2000 last night with an after-hour return. So it was OK to return it this morning around 0830 before their 0900 opening. From the Avis office, it was only a couple of minutes walk to the train station for our 0858 departure to Sighisoara. The train to Sighisoara […]
18 June 2018
We walked to the nearby Sixt rental car desk located in a nearby hotel. At the opening time of 0900, tt was unattended but we managed to ring up the number provided. They couldn’t do us a car till around 1100. That left us with our backup booking with Avis for 0930. We taxied down […]
17 June 2018
We had the same breakfast of muesli and milk before heading to Bucharest’s railway station by taxi. It was a short wait before we could board our train for Brasov. Once in the countryside, the landscape varied between green and brown. We pulled into Brasov 2h40 later and took a taxi uphill to the old […]
16 June 2018
No breakfast was supplied at our hotel so we had some fruit and muesli. I was in a rush to get going. My brain wasn’t functioning and I kept thinking we had to be at the free walking tour at 1000 when it was in fact 1030 at the central city park about 20 minutes […]