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Brasov Romania Apartments For Sale

Brasov Romaina Apartments For SaleI saw this sign while I was wandering around Brasov. It was for apartments for sale in the city. It was for a new development. These would have been brand new, under construction, or planned. The prices are in euros. The dollar equivalents were $70.000 and $100,000 for a two bedroom or a three bedroom apartment somewhere in Brasov. What else Continue reading

Communist Era Apartments Bucharest Romania

Communist Era Apartments Bucharest RomaniaYou see these everywhere in Eastern Europe. The communists were really into building blocks and blocks and blocks of apartments where all the apartments were identical. Personally, I don’t see a problem with it. It only makes sense to me. That type of sentiment is why I will never get elected to public office. I’m much too practical. This Continue reading

McToasty Chisanau Moldova

McToasty Chisanau MoldovaIt’s what I had for breakfast on my first morning in Chisanau. I really would have preferred a Sausage McGriddle, Egg McMuffin, or a Breakfast Burrito. But, they weren’t on the menu. The McToasty was and it was combined with a coffee in a combo special that made the McToasty almost free. I saw a lot of places on my trip to Europe that had toast on Continue reading

Beer House Chisanau Moldova

Beer House ChisanauThis is one of the bars in Chisanau. It’s listed by Lonely planet as a good place to drink. When I looked at Lonely Planet’s advise on what to do in Chisanau in two days, they said to go out at night and drink a lot. They said that Chisanau’s party atmosphere is rated really, really good. Maybe I should have spent more time in the bars in Continue reading

Shawarma as Big as My Head

Shawarma as Big as My HeadI like street food. I call street food any food you can buy from the street or sidewalk and you don’t have to go inside a building. I guess that qualifies as street feed. No, this does not mean sidewalk cafes where you could go inside a building. For me street food has to be bought at a place where there there isn’t a high probability of finding a nice Continue reading

Booted in Romania

Booted in RomaniaIt seems that it works the same way in Romania as it does in the states. At least I’m assuming that it does. I would guess that you get enough tickets and you get booted when you don’t pay them. It was a nice car in a nice neighborhood in Sinaia. The house behind it would have been a really nice house in virtually any city in the world. Did the car belong to this house? I had no idea. I just know this wasn’t the only car in the neighborhood with a boot on it. I’m not sure which is more sad, giving the boot or getting the boot. Maybe both. Double sadness.

Beer in Box Odessa Ukraine

Beer in Box Odessa UkraineMy friend Paul and I really liked the shawarmas at one the the restaurants close to the hostel. They were excellent and we split one every day I was in Odessa. Unfortunately, they didn’t sell beer. However, they had no problem with people bringing in beer from the store down the street. This is the cooler where Paul and I got out beer before we went to the shawarma place. Notice that there is a wide selection. Most of it was around a dollar but some of it got as high as two dollars for the good stuff in bigger containers. You could get a two liter jug for about $2.50 but that was a little more beer Continue reading

GiGi Customer Line Cluj Romania

GiGi Customer Line Cluj RomaniaI got lucky. I took the bus downtown to downtown Cluj from the hotel and it dropped me right in front of a GiGi, my favorite bakery chain in Romania. They have some great products. The bread wrapped sausage with cheese was my choice for breakfast. Sometimes I chose it for dinner, too. They have a pretty good chocolate covrigi and a vanilla covrigi. The cherry wasn’t bad, I just had to be in the right mood. I definitely think that there is some serious money to be made with covrigi in the U.S. Will I be the one to make it? Hardly. I think I’ve retired. I’ll leave that to people who need to make Continue reading

Bicycle Rental Sibiu Romania

Bicycle Rental Sibiu RomaniaI was just out walking around and I spied the bicycle rental place. It looked just like the ones in Bucharest and Brasov. I found out that’s because it’s the same company. They seem to be financed or owned by a bank in Romania. At least, all of the bikes they rent have the name of the bank on them. Once again I got a single speed coaster-brake Continue reading

Pigeon Food Sibiu Romania

Pigeon Food Sibiu RomaniaIt all started rather accidentally. I bought a couple of pastries for my dinner and as I’m walking away from the bakery a couple of pigeons start following me. I heard one of them say to the other one “Wouldn’t it be nice if he shared.” I don’t know why but I thought it would. So I headed over to the Billa, a grocery store and got a big loaf of bread for Continue reading