If anyone was wondering where Day 43 went, well it went and with no major incident or infact anything interesting.
But back to today and actually today when I rose from my slumber at 2.00 a.m. I was really nervous. I think the combination of travelling to a new airport and then a new country and then having to drive somewhere where my sat nav doesn’t work was all adding to the nervousness.
So it was to the airport and I arrived at the Birmingham car park at 4.15 a.m. and was pleased that for a change it was just a short walk to the terminal building, the check in was nice and quick and although it was a self service type check in, the guy who was around just took my passport and did it for me. I dropped my bag and headed to Costa to get a well earned latte.
It was a nice change to go to a different airport and the one hour and forty five minute journey gave me a chance to have a fairly good sleep and my UK colleague who is with me on this trip kindly collected my plane meal for me and I have a blueberry yogurt in the fridge waiting for the time I decide to have a treat.
We arrived in Munich with just 30 minutes before we boarded for Timisoara.
Cutting a long story a little shorter we arrived in Timisoara some hour and fifteen minutes later on the most pot holed runway I have ever landed on. It was unbelievable, I am sure the pilot was swerving to avoid the really bad ones. I thought the plane was going to shake to bits. So it was time for the hire car and this week I have been given a Ford Focus that has done some 40,000 km's already and boy does it feel like it has. So we hit the road and it was at this point I really felt nervous, not that I was going to drive on the right as I have been doing that for some months, but because immediately there were, it seemed, hundreds of road signs and I have no idea what the hell they meant. So with blissful ignorance we set off and immediately I realised it was right to be nervous, the roads are the deathtrap, idiots were overtaking right in front of me, three times in the first couple of miles I had to swerve or slow down quickly to avoid a nutter coming at me on my side of the road. I then realised why everybody travelled with full lights on despite it been full sunshine and thirty degrees.
The road was a single track for about 130 miles going through some very small villages and towns, it took over three hours and we saw some amazing sights. Firstly we saw a lot of run down housing that people were living in, houses that had started been built but now abandoned and in one case a road that had been started construction but looked like that had been abandoned some time ago if you go by the overgrown foliage. The scenic driving was really nice as we went over the Transylvanian Alps.
The hotel is really quite nice and I have put a photo I have taken from my Window.
We arrived just 13 hours after I set off from home and was quite pleased to be able to throw my things in my room and put my shorts on and go down to the pool area. I sat on a sun lounger and put my feet up, and promptly fell asleep for almost an hour. When I awoke I thought I would try the pool but it was absolutely freezing so I will leave that for another night.
The time zone is two hours in front of the UK so even though it was 7.00 p.m. here it was still 5.00 p.m. in the UK but I was so drained I decided to stay by the pool and relax in the last bit of sunshine there was. Then when I felt it was all I could take of the sun we went for a walk to the stable that is adjoining the hotel and where you can do horse riding from, and went along the stables stroking each one in turn, I tried my best not to be wary of the horses as they are not my favourite animal which is why the next bit seems so ironic.
All of the hotel rooms are themed different, my UK colleagues is based on the UK, and mine is based on horses. There are pictures of the little devils of them everywhere, no joking I have just counted them and there are 106 pictures including the 16 that are in the bathroom. Then in the centre of the room is a rug that I hope to goodness it is not made of horse hair as it looks like it to me. I keep walking around it not wanting to walk on it with my bare feet.
So time has come to 9.30p.m. local time and I have doing this blog as a break from some work that I need to get done before tomorrow.
So it is back to work before its time to say
Night All
Tomorrow I will give my first impressions of the locals.
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