From Piatra Neamt...not with a lot of love

Romania is quite a special country...

I do not want to turn this blog into a philosophical one, specially after my last post! But after such a fuss, I simply can't help it, so there it goes: expectations are, if not everything, quite a lot! Over a week we have been travel literally through wherever the wind was blowing, as fast as he as well was. Besides the gas and the tolls (the few times we granted ourselves that extravaganza), we were only paying for what we wanted, when we wanted and when what we wanted required payment. Conclusion: we had no further expectations then to be adventure ourselves in the unknown and by the end of the day, the feeling was always the same: we got much more then what we were giving back, specially financially. Little room for disappointment on that matter, so to say.

But not this week. Together with Isa, Nico and Noel (3 dear, dear friends and this king of company that makes any context an unforgettable and unique one), we are following a touristical program drawn by a local travel agency. Instead of cheap “to be” crapy youth hostels, we are staying in some of the top hotels in the cities we are crossing by. Thing is, all those “crapy places to be” provided free internet access, while here, in Peatra Neamt, after the pre-paid card you bought at the front desk does not work, they trust they will make you believe they run an Hotel which has no internet connection at all. At least the last two days we were in the Danube’s delta, a remote place where the excuse “we just had a storm” works quite well. To finally be able to give you some news tonight, I had to fight at my hotels frontdesk for about 40 minutes, simply not accepting no was their final answer, till they told me I could get internet from free at another hotel two blocks away…

I’m definitely not the “bitchy” tourist type. In fact, I hate to be played tourist on the first place. But there are some moments in which you simply had to much. Specially when you feel exactly the opposite form what I’ve earlier described: you are far from getting what you paid for… Disclaimer though is required: Romania is indeed a special country, but this "getting less then paying for" feeling is very centred on tonight’s experience. As we will have the chance to soon (so helps us the internet facilities in the hotels we will be staying at in the upcoming days) share with you, this is quite an impressive and definitely not to miss country, both for the good and for the bad.

Unlike it was our intension, it won’t still be tonight that we make our blog up to date. Even so, and besides these (once again) philosophical words, we leave you or post on lovely Slovakia.

Will get back to you very soon (hopefully),
TMA

P.S. – Uuaaaauuu. It was a huge pleasure to read the many and thorough comments made to my last post. Indeed an honour for us to deserve your company along our way. Thank you!