Thursday, September 28, 2006

Pics day 6 ....views from Oradea

The old fortress

Just some green warez....

The National Theatre from Oradea

The downtown - in the left in town hall

Day six or day X ..or the longest day ...or whatever :D

.. I had to woke up at 7 a.m. because for Alex had to go to job ... we ate something fast ....prepare ... after that i went to his office(he work in a bank) he gaved me a map of the city and told me what should i visit. For the first time in my trip i was having a map of the city where i was ...but ...i was very temptated to ask ppl for info because i wasnt sure ..if i am using right the map. Oradea is a very nice city in his old part ...but sadly not all the old buildings are good maintain. After seeing the area ..i was back at Alex's office he print me some sheets with the name of the cities in my road ...and we said good bye and see u soon(hi alx). The hitch hiking was good ... i catch pretty fast a car from Oradea to Cluj. And from Cluj directly to Pitesti. Even it things sound good i was little bored of been in a car for about 8 hours from Oradea to Pitesti... but what matter i was back at home ....after ...some great days ....but why to not say i was feeling great to back in Romania , back in Pitesti ...back to sweet home.

Pics day five




"Broken" - is a good description of the entire railstation not just for the the clock

Between countries

Me ...and some ...stiff girls from Miskolc :D

Day five

..day five began with a shot snack at Klara's house ...after that she showed me the city Miskolc is a city with more comunist blocks just in the centre some old buildings are preserved. After that she left me in a good spot for hh(hitch hiking). But it wasn't my best day. It tooked me 4 cars to reach Deberecen and also some time. In Debrecen things were the same ...after an hour of staying in the sun with my thumb prepared for getting a lift ... a finaly found a car take me ...30 km. In that hour i refused a cab driver who offered me a promotonaly lift to Oradea for 50 euro :). From that village i get a lift to Beretyoufallu a small town at 60km from the hungarian-romanian border. But here after another hour of waiting my luck came back. A nice Mercedes stoped and ask me where i go :). I was pretty happy to find out that he will go to Oradea in Romania ...so i was solving the problem of crossing the border. I reached Oradea at 6:30 p.m. ...too late to try to hh to Pitesti(another 470km). So i took a tour of Oradea(where i was never been before). After that i went to an internet cafe ...there BANG!! my luck hit again i found Alex a guy from hospitalityclub who when he found that i am in Oradea said to me ..."U have a place where to sleep.... no ...then come to my place" ( i was prepared to pass the night at the railstation who wasn't look too good). The evening was very ...interesting ...with quality chat about Oradea's history and with a big release in my soul ....back in Romania( i was quite afraid that i'll spend a lot of time in border to find a lift).

Friday, August 04, 2006

Pics from day four

The wall of fame :) in Klara's house






























Parliament

Day four

:) ....yep ...day four started with a smile when i saw what was the time .. 12:30 :D ... the romanian proverb said something like "The one who wake in the morning reach far" ...so i was in delay. I ate something and we left the dormitory... the moment to part from Noemi camed we said "See ya" ...and i take the tram to the Parliament. The Building of the Parliament is near the Danube, the view is great from there... but the building is ... a little bit to gray for my taste. In front of the building was the Museum of Ethongraphy wich i visited for 350 forints ( this is the price for students). After asking few ppl i tooked the M1 metro until the last station and from there i walked 500m ..near a OMV gas station. From there i hitch-hiked to Miskolc. It tooked my ..45 min. from the metro station until a car stoped and said get in. The guy who gaved me the lift was an hungarian who was living in America and in the summer came at home to see his relatives. So, i reached Miskolc at 8 in the evening... and i meat Klara and Akos. We went at there house in a vilage near Miskolc ...we talked .. it was a nice atmosphere .. warm ..Klara has traveled in many countries(Australia, China ..also in Afrika). I fall asleep thinking to make myself a wall with pics from whole over the world ..like Klara has.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Pics from day three


Near Danube ... drinking some ..things :)

Heroes Plaza

Basilica Sf. Stephan


An former mosque now a curch preserving the original muslim altar

Day three

..Day three ...alredy??? ...i have to say that ..time passed so quickly this days ..
Yea ...now i remember ..day three started .. similar with day two ...a little head ache beacause of the party of course :D .. dam serbian and their magic potion :). I wake up fast ... get dressed proper for the road ... said good by to Ioana and to the other guys ..and start walking. I tooked my breakfast in park. After that ..i wait like 10 min in a station for a bus. In that time near the station was a guy who reapaired his car ...and after finishing the job ..he ask me " Go to the center?" ..so i got a lift to the center of Pecs.
In the city center ..last pics ..i buyed some post cards ..and i ask 3-4 person how to get to the next good spot for HH to Budapest. I find a bus who get me a good ride. I wrote "BP" on a card and i wait for a car to stop near an gas station. At one moment on car came form the other side ..and tooked me. The driver passed me ... but he came back to get me a a lift(THATS A NICE PERSON). He wasnt a real hungarian( he was an afro person - THX REMI) with his daughter going to BP(and listening Shakira) . He made some km in plus to let me near to the center of BP(again very nice). Then i sent an sms to Noemi(also a HC member) with the last powers of my batery. Waiting for Noemi i visited The Basilica of Sf. Stephan. With Noemi i visited also the Square of Heroes .... and some interesting places. After that we went to the dormitory where she was living.
The evening was the best thing about BP i went with Noemi and her friends to an open air party(at Zold Pardon).. not before drinking some beer,wine, vodka and champagne :D. Great atmosphere at Zold Pardon ..as a proof we went back home at 6 in the morning.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Pics from day 2






From Szeged and Pecs

Day two

...so after some vodka ..i wake myself ..quite hard ..but i had to do it still fast ..our host was going to work at 9 ...or 9 and something. After changing mails with the guys ...we part..the other travelers goes to Romania, Csaba goes to work ..and i go ..to explore ..i walk around ...2 hours in Szeged ...very nice city.. i recomand it. He tooked me ..like half an hour to go out from the city and find the good spot to HH to Pecs. Because i didnt know how HH goes in Hungary ...i tooked the first car that taked me ..and the guy gave me a lift to Baja. From Baja another one to Batasek..after that another one to Mohacs. In Mohacs a Romanian guy gaved me a lift. He was so kind ...he wanna go to Budapest but for me ...he made some km in plus to reach Pecs(THX MAN IF U SEE THIS!!). In Pecs .... other adventures ...here i met my girlfriend ( hi Ioana :) ). She was the in a ...summer school or something like this. I lived in a tension in there cause i was there a little bit ...illegal .. but finaly was very nice ...we went to a party ...with lot of palinca and other drinks....

Pictures from day one



Day one!

So... thursday morning i started ...wit a lots of hopes.
I stard my hitch hiking day with an Dacia Logan until Sibiu. From there a truck to Deva From Deva another truck to Arad. This truck had a little accident (another truch broke the mirror and for this reason i loosed one hour and a half). From Arad i hh with another truck until Nadlac .. a smal town/village at the border with Hungary. Because i reached prety late the custom point ...(18:30) i was i little nervous. Here things wasn't so good ... nobody was willling to cross me the border. Here i also met a guy coleg of mine at a karate class (his father was a truck driver) but they couldnt take me because they where alredy 3 in the truck.
Finaly i had to pay to some guys 10 euro to give me a ride to Szeged.. where i arrived at 9:20 after the hungarian hour(10:20 after the Romanian hour). Lucky me Csaba ( from HospitalityClub ) came to meet me even at this hour. He was meeting also with 2 person from swissland and 2 from slovenia ..so it was a really travellers meeting. we put oure backpacks down in the centre of Szeged and we eat something and had some beers....
At Csaba apartment we end the day with some vodka with ice ...so ..after 15 hours of travelling the day was ending pretty optimistic :D

Back from Hungary!!!!

Sorry for not posting lately ...but i had a good reason: Crazy hitch hike trip trough Hungary :).
I starded thursday early in the morning.... one backpack with cans, clothes, one umbrella :), some biskits, my passport and an medical assurance for 3 days( around 3 euro).

Monday, July 03, 2006

CS crashed!!! :(

Short introduction
YES ppl ...i just find out ...something sad happened in the world www.couchsurfing.org has crashed. For those who dont know what represent CS i'll introduce u now in the world of ..hospitality..
There are few websites who are promoting the idea that ppl from all over the world offer free acomodation for travelers. The best two sites are ...or where www.hospitalityclub.org (HC ) and www.couchsurfing.org (CS ).

"What is the Hospitality Club?
Our aim is to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, takes just a minute and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other's profiles, send messages and post comments about their experience on the website."

This is the presentation of HC on the their website... is a very cool think ...i am a member of both sites ... and i've been hosted once in Rousse (Bulgaria).. and it's a great way for travelling and knowing ppl.
CS crashed!!! :(
And now ...talking about today's subject CS website crashed ...the explanation sound like this: ]

"Dear CouchSurfers,Two days ago CouchSurfing experienced what could be described as theperfect storm. The database administrators we hired made two criticalmistakes. First, we had a major, avoidable hard drive crash. Secondly,the incremental back-ups weren't executed in the correct manner, andtwelve of our most important data files didn't survive.I have been working non-stop trying to repair the data, but as difficultas it is for me to say, it has become clear that certain essentialpieces are not recoverable. This crash happened at a particularlyvulnerable time, in a transition between two back-up methods. If thecrash had happened a week ago, or next week, we would have had adifferent outcome.It is with a heavy heart that I face the truth of this situation.CouchSurfing as we knew it doesn't exist anymore."

Thursday, June 29, 2006

..last post in this night ..I promise

I just realized that i didn't write anything useful this night ...and i wasn't so proud about my ...so let me recomand u the blog that determinated me to have one. What is this blog about .... 2 girls making an interesting thing ..that i might do it too in one of this days: dumpsters diving :) dont be surprised!!

the adress is: http://www.emoware.org/dumpster-diving.asp

P.S. we can check out more about dumpsters diving on wikipedia at this adress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving

Same day ...mather a fact it's the same night


The first part of this entry ...is kind of a protest .... is this thing with blogs.. the posts are puted on the screen in reversed order of posting ...so is quite hard to folow the ideas ( if there are some ) tru the blog. You may revolte and say "Hey ..u think u are so smart ..u just begun a blog and u think u know everything !!?? Go back to the cave !!" ..... But no ...u dont gonna say that ..first because it's impolite ...and second cause is not true. Yes ...if u had folowed every post ...ucan get easy what the author wanna say ..but if u are randomly on the page ...u may see some nonsense writing ... why they dont do like in the case of forums ...push the button to the last page and see the latest posts.

Viava la revolucion!!! It's a new era for bloggers!!! Freedom!!!

Just a day....

....very important of course ..like every day..

Today's recomandation is called Royksopp - Eple ...it's a very interesting band ...and Eple a beautiful song. I am not too good at music styles ..but is something ...hmm electro- ambiantal u should try it.
Secondly ...because ..it seems that my blog is not funny enough for my taste ..i'll try to entertain my public ...with some ....pics ...with me of course ... :D ..enjoy!









P.S. I've been to a tai chi class today ... i've been once before ...but now i like it more... what should i do ...take this class using the money for beer... hmm but i dont have money for beer ...my friends gave me beer ... very hard probelm

I expect advices from the wise men who read this :)

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Chapter I. Genesis - part II

I.Genesis
Talking very short about me ..my name is Cristian, 20 years old, and am living in medium town from Romania( yes that east european country :P ...if u are not sure where is Romania), my town's name is Pitesti( around 180k inhabitans).
My life ...i think is quite good in here ... i have quite a lot of oportunities and is about me if i am going to take my chance or not. Now i study computers ..also here ..at Pitesti University...and that all till now about me.

>> It's a must to begin my blog with another webpage made by me "Must see Romania" ... cause i have to tell u ..that i love travelling(backpacking, hitch hiking, trekking) ....and also love my country(..or some big parts from it) and i would like that ppl know more about Romania ...so this site present some trips, pics from some beautiful places in Romania ..hiking, trekking ...useful things for a backpacker.
http://www.mustsee.as.ro

Chapter I. Genesis

I. Genesis
The great day has come ..... yes is time for me to start a blog. You may wonder what do you feel when you have to start a blog... there are butterflies in youre tummy ... or ..is that "really lonley being you" feeling from Yahoo messenger... NO. For me ...(being a future engineer) the information is the reason for starting a blog. I saw how useful may be the information from a blog ...and i said to myself that i can do a real good thing and share the information that i have with the whole world :)... big plans.
Being just a man probably my creation it's not gonna be perfect so i say sorry from now for the mistakes from the future (mainly sorry for my english spelling errors)
Dont worry i'm not gonna write this kind of romans every day ..is just the begining and i am a little bit too enthousiastic.
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