Dobrestii

Hi guys,

After reading all your posts regularly and wondering if anybody else does this, but still appreciating the effort you put up for us, by writing almost every day, time has come to wish you a Merry Welcome Home!

I know you had a great honey-moon and coming home to dusty Bucharest and to your daily jobs is not something you wished for but sooner or later it was bound to happen.

We just wanted to let you know that we took great care of your apartment, we organized weekly gangbangs and the walls of your little’ol’home have seen lots of naked people. We also played with all your wedding gifts and tried on all your clothes. We smoked all your plants and drank all the booze we could find. Juts a heads up, don’t expect to find any food, booze, perfumes, clean clothes, living plants or unused tampons, when you get back.

Here’s for the second honey-moon, this time spent together with us, in Bora Bora ! Here Here !

Dana & Bob

PS. We already bought the tickets for Bora Bora by renting your apartment as a B&B for foreign gypsy students.

As my dear husband was telling you in his longest post, we did not like Rome very much. So that’s why yesterday and the day before we did not do many things. So, let me tell you what we did on Tuesday

Because the weather was not so good in the morning, we decided to go in the city and buy some stuff to eat (because we have a fridge in the room ) and this took us almost 3 hours. After we came back and had lunch we went to the pool and laid in the sun until there was not any sun on the sky . In the evening we were at the bar and we had one BIG (maybe 2l) jug of beer during the rugby match Scotland – Romania. And that was all for Tuesday
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As my dear husband was telling you in his longest post, we did not like Rome very much. So that’s why yesterday and the day before we did not do many things. So, let me tell you what we did on Tuesday

Because the weather was not so good in the morning, we decided to go in the city and buy some stuff to eat (because we have a fridge in the room ) and this took us almost 3 hours. After we came back and had lunch we went to the pool and laid in the sun until there was not any sun on the sky . In the evening we were at the bar and we had one BIG (maybe 2l) jug of beer during the rugby match Scotland – Romania. And that was all for Tuesday
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Ciao a tutti

After a great dinner at the ground floor of the smelly hotel from Paris we went to sleep as we woke up really early in the morning (3:30). The plane departure time was 7:40, the metro is only working starting with 5:30 and we had to take the night buses. I have to admit that it was quite an adventure as these night buses are quite new (I suppose) and people actually don’t know too much about them (not even in the RATP info points where they recommended taxi ). In the end, after changing 4 buses we managed to get to the airport, where we checked-in quite early and we even had time to play some tennis on a Sony PlayStation 2 All the flight was only sleep for us and we arrived in Rome around 10.

The rest of the day was quite smooth as we took a bus to reach the metro, then the metro for 19 stops and then a very dirty train for 11 stops. Yeah it was long … and in the end we managed to reach Camping Tiber. We checked in, went in our “mobile room”, but unfortunately the shower wasn’t working. Therefore I went to the reception and they gave us another mobile room (ok – some explanation about this: as it is a camping all the “rooms” are actually in some kind of trailers and they are anchored to the ground, together with electricity, sewing system and so on. They are really nice, but as there are 2 rooms per trailer we could feel it shaking when our neighbors were moving inside the next room ).

This new one was in a different place, a higher class and we managed to get access to a kitchen as well (the door between the room and the kitchen couldn’t be locked). Therefore we were lucky to get more and pay the same price

After we settled in this new mobile room we wanted to eat something as we were starving, but nothing was opened around (the “market” is closed between 12 and 16 and the restaurant was closed between 14 and 19; the time was 14:30 ) so we had to enjoy some remaining of Pringles, french cheese and spanish sausage (or salami, as you wish – thank you Anna for it, we really enjoyed it!). After our full lunch we just went to sleep and woke up around dinner time We went in the restaurant and had some hot food together with some beers which became some Claras con limone Along with the good food and Claras. at the restaurant we received very good services as well. All the waiters working here are very young and well trained how to do their job. Along them we met Florin, a young guy from Romania, very nice which is staying in Rome for almost 5 years and in Camping Tiber for 3 years. We spoke just a little bit with him, because he was working After the dinner we arrived in our mobile room and had a very nice night… sorry sleep And, mainly, this is how our first day in Rome ended

Now getting to the next day – Monday – we woke up around 11, we got something to eat pretty fast and then we went in the big city. I have to stop here for a description of Rome as we were really disappointed after coming from Spain and Paris … First of all – we found the city quite dirty compared to Madrid, Barcelona and maybe even Paris. The train we had to take from Flaminio until Prima Porta (the small village where Camping Tiber is located) is extremely dirty and also quite smelly. It looks like old romanian trains and it’s probably at least 15 years old, or even more. The same dirt and smell can be found almost everywhere – on the streets, in the metro stations, in the middle of the touristic areas and not to mention the river which is really really bad. And on top of that there are restaurants on the river’s sides and even cruise boats. To be honest I really don’t know what is to be seen except a lot of plants, the green stuff from a dirty river floating everywhere, a lot of garbage and probably a bad smell too This is one of the reasons we weren’t very impressed by Rome. We heard so many people saying that Rome is so nice and blah blah, but in our opinion it’s more the fame than the real thing … It’s totally true that there are a lot (and I mean really a lot) of very nice old buildings, most of the center of the town is surrounded by a lot of points of attraction and I won’t start naming them as they are too many. However besides the dirt and smell I was mentioning earlier, the streets and especially the side-walks are also not very good at all, there are a lot of romanians everywhere (which made us feel like home ) and all these combined gave us the impression of a city that used to be very beautiful and famous, but now is going down because of bad administration and lack of interest in making it cleaner and nicer.
Now back to what I was saying We first went to Vatican, of course … but we were really amazed by the enormous queue that we found there. The one at Eiffel tower was just a little baby compared to this one. After some time we realized that this huge queue was for the Vatican Museum, where the famous Chapel painted by Michelangelo is and so on.

Therefore we skipped it and went to Piazza San Pietro, which we have to admit that it’s really huge and impressive. The same goes for the Basilica and its Chapel. We went on top of it and the views over Rome are really nice. After quite a long time spent there we went for a tour around the western part of the city and looking on the map we see that we walked quite a lot We left Colosseum and all the really old stones for another day (maybe tomorrow) and at some point we stopped to eat something. We picked randomly a restaurant and once again we were very disappointed: not by the food – we had really good pasta but by the services. Anyway the waiter didn’t get any tip from us, but he deserves it

In the end we took the train back to our camping, we went in the bar to get some drinks (as it was happy hour) and we got ourselves 1 liter of sangria with 2 long straws (in my opinion it was really bad, but my lovely wife thinks it was good). They had these long straws over there, but I thing they were only for design as actually nobody was using them. After we got them all the people from the bar buying sangria asked for long straws and they were having a lot of fun using them. We even made a bet regarding a table next to us: there were 4 persons there having some beers and one of the guys went to buy more drinks as the happy hour was ending. I was saying that he’ll got beer and my wife was saying sangria. In the end he came with one jug of beer and one of sangria The bet was about organizing a week-end in the mountains, therefore we’ll have to do it together in the end

I think it’s enough for now as we have to eat the excellent “ciorba” that my wife just cooked. And of course we are preparing for the rugby game with Scotland, therefore “Hai Romania!”.

Ciao!
Dobrestii

It is my “responsibility” to talk about the last day spent in “the city of lights” how my beloved husband called Paris.
So, because it was a Saturday and our French friends workers had a free day, we could sleep a little bit more, but no later than 9:30 am because we didn’t want to skip the breakfast

After it, we went in the room and spent some time there, being very lazy and without any adventure spirit. But, finally we left the hostal decided to go and see the Opera and after that to climb the Eiffel Tower. On the way to the Opera we reached some C&A shop from where we bought many nice sweaters for Pedro in particular…this time:) So, another hour spent shopping

Next stop, after the shopping session, was indeed The Opera which unfortunately was closed for some concerts and stuff and we could not visited it. Maybe next time in Paris And, because we had a big bag with clothes with us, we thought it will be much better to climb the Tower without them, so, we went back to the smelly room and dropped them there

In the end, we reached the Eiffel Tower with a very LOOOONNNNGGGGG queue for the entrance tickets. We could say we spent there more than 4 hours, taking queues to buy tickets, to take the elevators to go up in the top floor, to take some nice pictures with the views and the susnset (crowded place up there ;P), to go down and to exit from the big and nice Tower. These were the worst parts of visiting it. Let me now present to you the wonderful parts.

After we reached the elevator, we climbed to the second floor, 125 m high, where the view of Paris was absolutely incredible. We could see Trocadero square, the Arch of Triumph, Notre Dame cathedral, Sacre Coeur cathedral, Invalides Domme, La Defense district, with all the sky-scrapers, Montparnasse Tower and many many more.

With the next elevator we reached the top floor, more than 270 m high from where we could not see all the monuments mentioned above (Yes, because of the hight). But still, the view over Paris was incredible, especially when the sun went down and all the night lights turned on. Starting with 9:00 pm, the Tower is lightened with many small white lights for 10 minutes every hour and the view is very very nice. So, after many photo sessions in the Tower we went down and had a very nice dinner at the restaurant from the ground level of our hostal (this one is really good compared with the four floors above it, representing Hotel Le Parisien ) with the same rose French wine, Cotte de Provence, 2006, some “moules” and lamb cooked in Morocco way. Really good and nice

So, finally, around 0:00 we were already in the smelly room and prepared to sleep for no more than 3 hours and a half, because our flight to Rome was very early in the morning.

But, until we’ll write our memories from Italy, we can say that we enjoyed very much the week spent in Paris and definitely we’ll be there again.

Kisses from both of us, and “write” you from our next and last stop, Rome.