Transylvania

Transylvania
view from "Dracula's Castle"

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Dogs come with three legs.. in Romania

I have been on holiday for the past week to the beautiful country of Romania where Vampires live, "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania, and the night life of Bucharest. The 28 hour train ride was torturous (when the toilet was "flushed" you could literally watch your waste drop onto the train tracks) and ironically delightful, I was able to see the countryside that you cant see any other way. I watched as horse drawn carts with gypsy nomads crossed my window while just a short while later i stared at the incredible architecture of old town Bucharest. The beauty of the country is hard to describe, but i feel like Google images does a pretty good job. So feel free to browse the country conveniently through your computer screen and be jealous that i was actually there, on Dracula's hunting ground. The food was delicious the view was breathtaking and the company could have been better ha. Jared and Nate were my travel buddies, three amigos, three musketeers, three stooges, three exhausted young adults with too many jokes at each others expense. If you want to get to know someone well all you have to do is play "hot seat" and realize you have nothing to ask each other.
My backpack got lighter each day of travel and then i realized my friends were stealing my stuff so once i got it all back it weighed about the same. The trip was great, traveling eastern Europe is surreal life is lived so differently here, yet people are all the same. Everyone is always trying to get somewhere, but not me. Im here.