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Over
the alps on the way down
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Toward
the bottom of Transylvania
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Cluj-Napoca.
One of the many benefits of living under an oppressive communist
dictatorship for so long is that your towns aren't filled with
mirror-glass high rises
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Kludgey
picture of Cluj
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The
'Mirror Street' where the buildings on each side are (almost)
identical copies). Coincidence? I think not.
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Its
rude to stare at their pom-poms, laddie.
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Four
persons and a pigeon enjoy the spectacle
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Judges
confer in the Best Legs competition
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Last
hurrah
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Cluj
Union
Square
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One
of many churches in Cluj
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Candles
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The
interior
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Reminds
me of university flats...
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Candid
snapper on the streets of Cluj
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[Pause
for long bus ride] The
attractive Vişeu de Sus railway
station
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Dual
gauge track with narrow gauge turnout embedded within it. Took
me a while to get my head around this!
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Jonathan's
and Darryl's fancy rooms (with team bathroom far left) upstairs
at our pension. We didn't let on to the other group members or
pension mates, who were holed up in rat-infested coal bunkers
downstairs, that we had scored the last two Presidential Suites.
If you come on this trip, ask for the Ancuta Pension... After
assuming I would be 'off the grid' - as they say in those spy
shows - for the week, I was surprised to find in this tiny
logging town that the pension has superfast wireless
internet. Camera fired remotely with one flash propped up
on it (no light stands - hence the unfortunate head-on
brightness) and one tucked inside the doorway reflecting into a
white plastic bag. Its all high tech here folks.
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