Day 22: Just a few notes on Romania in general that we haven't had time to write anywhere else so far firstly!! Romania is desperate to join the EU and is doing all it can to convince the powers that be that it is ready for such an "honour." We're sure all the economic conditions, once satisfied will be fantastic for all the people in Romania who have actually got some money. Unfortunately there are millions of people - mainly the gypsies (who the governme...

Day 21: The tour to the three castles left at 9am today and we were up at a ridulously early time to make sure we were ready to go and had everything we needed. We ended up sitting around for nearly an hour waiting anyway but at least it wasn't too hot. There were 14 of us on the tour and the guide hadn't been able to make it. So basically we were to be driven to each location by a driver who spoke no English and find our own way around. Not ideal but the castl...

Day 20: We had coffee with Marian this morning, who, despite being on his vacation officially, was back at work again as usual!! He showed us to a good cafe so we could eat lunch and pointed us in the direction of the sights of the city. We had pizza as any other veggie option consisted of salad or salad basically!!! We walked up the steep cobbled streets and came across thousands of people who were all here for the medieval festival of Sighisoara!!! We w...

We slept in this morning, but just about managed to get ready in time to do some brief sightseeing before getting our 10 O'clock train to Sighisoara. We left the hotel and walked through the town, there were some really beautful old buildings. We wanted to see one church in particular; the moon church with a clock that tells you the current phase of the moon. There is only one like this in Europe, maybe even the world. So we were pretty excited, and very disappoi...

Went shopping today and Ellie accidently on purpose bought some nice comfy clothes for travelling!! We never really managed to have any breakfast so decided to go for a buffet lunch. It was soooooooooooo tasty n v. cheap too!! The cake was especially good - a Hungarian specialty with chocolate, custard, walnuts and sultanas. We ate lots of that!! We also had free drinks, and James managed to drink lots of beer and champagne in the short time that we were there!!!...