We spent most of the day on trains today. In true Eastern European train fashion, our train was absurdly late. We were supposed to get in at 6:30 and we got in at almost 10. That means that the 7 am train to Brasov I planned to take and the 8:30 backup train were both shot. Driving into Bucharest was kind of scary. I hope that a walking tour shows me a bit more of the city's charm, but the train ride into the station felt like that scene from Eurotrip when they first go to Bratislava.
We didn't spend much time in Bucharest because we found a train leaaving to Brasov around 10:50 and almost immediately boarded the train. It was a pretty train ride. It took about three and a half hours to get there and we got to see a lot of the Translyvanian mountains. They kind of reminded me of fhte drive through Oregon. A lot of trees. Pretty trees, but trees.
We got into Brasov around 2:30, got some Romanian lei, bought lunch, and then made our way to the hostel. We hung out at the hostel for a couple of hours before making our way into town. We got some food to make sandwiches with for our Translyvanian castle tour tomorrow. We also got Romanian Chinese food, which was surprisingly good.
That's about all we did today. We were pretty tired from having survived our third and final overnight train and tomorrow we're doing several tours (castle tour and a walking tour of Brasov after we get back). Mia and I uncovered the hostel's stash of Apatow movies so we've been having a bit of a marathon.
What we've seen of Brasov is kind of cute, though. The bits of it we've seen so far remind me of a mountainy Sabaudia.
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