Romania Revisited

As promised here I am again rambling on about my special trip to Romania. So to the sound of the Fratelli's 2008 Album (and after finding my notebook... whose misplacement was the real delay to this post) I'm off to take a dive into what I decided to call

My favourite Curious Contradictions - Romania Revisited :)

-- Curious fact no.1 --
A strange pipeline runs all along the train track between Timisoara and Cluj. Above the ground, uncovered and continious this diametrically huge pipe became my focus of my 6 hour train trip, humouring me when it framed roads rising a few metres above the ground, just enough to allow cars and other vehicles pass under it!

-- C. F. no. 2 --
Queues in Oradea are DIAGONAL. I stood in line waiting to buy my train ticket and for some strange reason kept being skipped by people from my right! There I stood a bit baffled at how rude this guy seemed to me... then I turned around and realised I was the only fool standing right behind the person at the glass and not on it's right hand- side.... :S

--C. F no. 3 --
Out of 5 train stations that I stopped in 1 had a subway passage... for some reason the preferred path seems to be Over and not under... sounds familiar .. the pipeline...

--C. F. no. 4 --
The main train stations have enough seating room for a couple hundred people... ORadea had Rows upon Rows upon Rows of empty chairs ..looked kind of lonely :P

--C. F. no. 5--
Italy prevails...wherever you look you have Italian brands, restaurants, cafes, adverts, products,.. well predictable I guess, but a bit unexpected for me :)

--C. F. no 6--
Local food is absolutely great. Tendentially though it's kind of difficult to understand what things are in the menu except for a few words... a few times I was adventurous and just pointed at something on the menu - still worked out fine :P others I was lucky to get a translation :D


Part 3 of my Romanian trip is on the way... this time with a few special words about my strange and wondrous encounters :)