Been a hectic day. In summary...Romanian buses are very...sporadic. Spent most of today waiting around for a bus because of missing one by a couple minutes. Had to go via the industrial Transylvanian hell hole of Turda to reach the Turda Gorge - a spectacular gorge which I took a 4km walk to get to. Weather has been Thoroughly mixed with hot sun interspersed with thundery downpours. Eventually got back to Cluj where am writing this about to have a proper meal fi...

Dreadful sleep last night. Maybe 4-5 hours. Tops. Even more frustrating that there wasn't any particular reason. But still, vent over Am in a coffee shop and it's not even 730 on a dreary Monday morning here in Cluj as an old grandad rants to his slightly sheepish family. All the museums are closed my clothes are drenched and the only things to do are outdoors. The rain is still beating down. Cluj is actually quite expensive. Not sure there's really much diffe...

Made it to Cluj! Am going to be writing more in my hand written journal than this, mainly doing it for the map! But anyways, Cluj is all very nice. Very clean. Nice temperature. All is good!

A very long day. A day not yet over still... despite already being up for the best part of 10 hours. Thanks to a large snoring man on the bed below me we were out of our cute little Odessa hostel rather earlier than expected. At last, uber worked successfully and got us to the airport at a fifth of the price we paid to get to the hostel. Odessa Airport really is a step back in time. There's stray dogs wandering around the check-in desks and the place can only ...

We're in Odessa! Or Odesa. How many ssses you use depends on which side you're more sympathetic to Ukraine or Russia. We left from different airports, I had an easy time making it to the big international airport by train and had plenty of time to use airport wi-fi and have a vending machine coffee before boarding my Ukrainian operated Brazilian plane bound for Odessa. Odessa is the 4th city of Ukraine but a very important port city. It's also under Martial Law...