Time for the second entry on our time in Breb. This one is going to be all about our work here and our life too. Perhaps I ought to talk about our hosts first and the people we worked with. They were such a huge part of our lives here that I'm going to end up dropping name all over the place and you won't have a clue who I'm talking about. Colleagues (And Bosses!) I guess you could say that we are working for Somewhere Different the company. This is run...

It's about time I did a proper blog entry. We've done a lot since coming to Romania. We've seen a lot of cool things and met some awesome and inspiring people. People who may well have a hand in changing our lives; also just really lovely local people who always have time for a young foreigner who can barely speak a word of their own language. There's no point trying to do this chronologically though. I'll start by just talking about where we are. Breb ...

It has occurred to me that blogging about what we are doing now as opposed to what we were doing before is going to have to be very different. We're not stopping in a place to experience a bit of the culture and do a bit of sightseeing before moving on anymore. We've been here in one small village for 3 weeks now immersing ourselves in the culture, working with and around the local people. We're not in the depths of the Amazon jungle and we're not hanging ou...

It was a fairly long bus ride into Baia Mare. We were both dying for the loo for most of the journey, but it was still a fairly pleasant drive. Romania is a beautiful country. The few towns that we drove through on the bus never spread out much further than the side of the road itself. And that's not to say that these are new towns built onto the main road, but that the road is very old. I guess the towns were built onto the road and then the roads were up...

We arrived in Cluj not too long after lunch-time. With it being mid-August I expected a wall of heat to hit me square in the face as I stepped out the plane. It was about the same as Luton. Nice, but certainly not the 40ᵒ I'd been told about. Apparently we arrived during a short cold snap. Probably a good thing. We could get used to it slowly. It's certainly hot enough now. Cluj itself was a bit of a disappointment. The airport was empty. We got our...