Bucharest to Constanta
We woke up to loud thunderclaps and pouring rain! Summer has finally left us.
We exhausted all possibilities for getting a van to take us either to the train station or to Constanta, so we donned all of our wet weather gear and headed off on the 3.5km adventure to the train station through the wet streets of Bucharest. It wasn't that bad, and we arrived unscathed even though Dermot's expression doesn't convey that.
Our next challenge was getting the bikes onto a train. I tried 2 ticket windows and both said 'no bikes allowed'. The lucky 3rd one said speak to the conductor and if it's OK come back and buy your ticket. So that's what we did, and fortunately the conductor allowed it. The train had no setup for bikes though. The only place was between carriages where we blocked either the doorway to get on/off the train, or the toilet.
The trains in Romania are good, just not bike friendly. We were travelling along at 150kph, beautiful and smooth. The Melbourne/Albury line could learn a thing or two from the Romanians. Along the way we crossed the Danube.
Arrived in Constanta right on time at 4.30pm but the sky was so dark it looked like 7pm. Then the pouring rain hit again. So waterproofs on again to ride to a hotel. (Spent an hour at the train station google searching for somewhere).
The hotel is 200m from the Black Sea. We've achieved our main aim - Baltic Sea to Black Sea.
We stopped at a nice restaurant to have a celebratory drink, but the paella looked so good we decided to stay.
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| A seat by the window overlooking the Black Sea. Wow!! |
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