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Day 26 🇷🇴 A boat trip and an Artist
Saturday August the 1stTotal distance driven: 4.617 KmToday’s distance: 294 KmWalked distance: 6,4 Km Luckily I needed the Voltaren’s help only once. After riding again with the jacket, everything went back to normal. Tanja, the biker I met in Budapest, told me she has always a warming cream with her and it has helped more…
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Day 25 🇷🇴 Tulcea and the Danube Delta
Saturday July the 31stTotal distance driven: 4.323 KmToday’s distance: 115 KmWalked distance: 5,4 Km My back was truly in bad shape. The night before, I came to the conclusion that the probable cause was rising without my jacket. It was over 38C and dry but probably my back didn’t like it. That must have been…
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Day 24 🇷🇴 Vulcano Mud and a Crash
Friday July the 30thTotal distance driven: 4.208 KmToday’s distance: 355 KmWalked distance: 5,6 Km Next destination: Tulcea and the Danube Delta. As expected the road was flat and straight. Here is what it looks like near Bucharest: After a quarter of an hour I got bored. There was still a place I actually wanted to…
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Day 23 🇷🇴 Bucharest
Thursday July the 29thTotal distance driven: 3.853 KmToday’s distance: 0 KmWalked distance: 12 Km Budapest and Bucharest. Similar names, many people mix them up. But they are fundamentally different cities. Bucharest is an absolutely large city with huge spaces. The touch of the dictator Ceausescu is very much visible, especially in buildings like the Palace…
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Day 22 🇷🇴 Bran & Peles castle, Rasnov and hail
Wednesday July the 28thTotal distance driven: 3.853 KmToday’s distance: 186 KmWalked distance: 15,8 Km To tell the truth, I already attempted to visit the famous Bran castle the morning before. But I had to do my laundry and arrived at the castle around 10:30am. Bran is a very touristic attraction and the queue was just…
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Day 21 🇷🇴 Hiking the 7 ladders & Brasnov
Tuesday July the 27thTotal distance driven: 3.667 KmToday’s distance: 98 Km in 2:15hWalked distance: 19,8 Km When I entered Romania few days ago, I stayed at Camping Mala near Orasova. Funny thing also Alex and Jana went to that camping in the past. In the morning I was pointing the sat nav to Corvin Castle…
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Day 20 🇷🇴 New friends and the real Transylvania
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Day 19 🇷🇴 The Transfagarasan & Lake Balea
Sunday July the 25thTotal distance driven: 3.359 KmToday’s distance: 122 Km in 3:07hWalked distance: 7,2 Km The Transfagarasan. Try to pronounce it 😂 The best road in the world according to Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. Previously he used the same definition for the Stelvio pass in Italy, which is near Bormio, my mother’s birth…
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Day 18 🇷🇴 Corvin Castle
Saturday July the 24thTotal distance driven: 3.201 KmToday’s distance: 364 Km in 5:54hWalked distance: 9,7 Km Breakfast, tent, packed. I had to go back and watch again the king‘s statue, as it was only 8 km away from the camping. My memory sometimes is not the best. When I have moments I want to remember,…