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Continue reading →: Day 14 – Câmpulung Moldovenesc to Putna39 miles (63 km) – Total so far: 684 miles (1,101 km) Leaving Pension Veronica this morning. It’s 2 km out of town, and last night I wandered in to pick up a takeaway pizza and a couple of beers. This mornings route took me about 10 km down the Moldova…
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Continue reading →: Day 13 – Ceahlau to Câmpulung Moldovenesc64 miles (103 km) – Total so far: 645 miles (1,038 km) Camping Ceahlau Durau comes highly recommended from me. It’s out of the village and away from the lake enough for quiet. Maria and her husband run it and have quite a bit of land on which they grow their…
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Continue reading →: Day 12 – Lacul Rosu to Ceahlau: Ceahlau National Park49 miles (79 km) – Total so far: 581 miles (935 km)
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Continue reading →: Day 11 – Miercurea Ciuc to Lacul Rosu: Meeting with the Four Horsemen40 miles (64 km) – Total so far: 532 miles (856 km) 7:00 am train out of the city, so it was an early start, but Sunday morning so the streets were pretty quiet, although the train was busy. This was an IR train going to Budapest with few stops, and…
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Continue reading →: Day 10 – In Brasov: End of Part One10 miles (16 km) – Total so far: 492 miles (792 km) I’m not usually keen on cities, but I’ve enjoyed a day here.Steam bath this morning, and watching the rugby from Cardiff and cricket from Lords this afternoon.The pedestrianised streets of the Old Town are busy, but I managed to…
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Continue reading →: Day 9 – Cartisora to Brasov47 miles (76 km) – Total so far: 482 miles (776 km) asa Deus is a really good accommodation. It’s a part farm and set rurally so quiet. A cabin was great on a wet night, but camping usually would be fine. There was a Czech cycling group in and they…
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Continue reading →: Day 8 – Capatanenii to Cartisora: Transfagarasan59 miles (95 km) – Total so far: 435 miles (700 km) I walked a couple of hundred metres to an average restaurant last night and as I did campers kept arriving and arriving at the site. I should have seen it coming. It was a public holiday in Romania, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: Day 7 – Malaia to Capatatenii54 miles (87 km) – Total so far: 376 miles (605 km) In the end I had to share my site at the back of the Pension.. Brezoi centre Away from the traffic again after a short climb, at 703M road heading east to Perişani. ‘and there’s always construction work bothering…
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Continue reading →: Day 5 – Casa Valea Cernei to Cheile Butii:The mountains are calling and I must go – Retezat National Park, Transylvanian Carpathians 55 miles (89 km) – Total so far: 245 miles (394 km) On the road after an incredible breakfast at 8:20 am for what was to be a tough day. It was 5 km on the sealed…
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Continue reading →: Day 4 – Kladovo (SRB) to Casa Valea Cernei (RO): Behind the old curtain45 miles (72 km) – Total so far: 190 miles (306 km) A rarity, a small problem at Romanian customs. I went ahead of the many queuing cars as usual, was ushered in by the driver next-up, and when the border guard saw my passport he called his colleague and said…
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Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
