We are parked up tonight at Camping Hercules in the village of Baile Herculane, Romania. Space for three or four Motorhomes behind a restaurant. We had a meal this evening, three courses with wine for £9 each. The weather has been kind to us today, no rain and some warm sunshine. We've had heavy rain for the last five or six days and folk tell us it's been awful here for the farmers but it's been worse to the west of us with severe flooding in Serbia and Bosnia and many lives lost.
We arrived in Romania yesterday and headed for the city of Timisoara, being Cup Final day my main concern was finding a bar which would be showing it on TV. The campsite was a few miles out of town but an English couple on the site (our first English people for two weeks!) said the WiFi was really fast on the site and as it was pouring with rain we decided to stay put and watch the match on the iPad. I'd downloaded an app so ITV would think I was in the UK so we settled down for the game. The WiFi wasn't fast so the picture kept freezing. I switched to 3G which was better but I only have a 500mb daily allowance and that ran out during extra time! We tried listening on the radio but that kept stalling too. So although we eventually celebrated, our joy was tempered with frustration with only having seen bits of the game. On reflection we should have gone into town and tried to find a bar but, hey ho.
So we didn't explore the city of Timosoara which according to the guide books has some beautiful squares and architecture to recommend it, maybe on the way back we'll have a look round. Now, as we get closer to Greece we just want to push on. Folk tell us that eastern Romania and the capital, Bucharest are worth visiting but for now we are just going to head south tomorrow into Bulgaria and we should be in Greece by Thursday. So far the Romania that we have passed through has been a flat, agricultural landscape with no wow moments but Bulgaria promises us some good scenery as we travel down through the west of the country hugging the Serbian and Macedonian borders.
Pat
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