Bucharest,Night-train and Pecs
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006The next day in Bucharest, we went to the Museum of the Romanian Peasant. We must have run across a special market connected to the museum because there were many people there and lots of “peasant” art to buy. The museum itself was really nice. At one point, in the info brochure, it recommended us to just walk around and see it. This gave us an overall impression of peasant life without interruption by gobs of info reading. It was done well.
After the museum, we hung out at a coffee/lunch place to give our feet a rest from yesterdays walking. Later, we hung out at the hostel.
The next day, we were planning on going to a local Jewish museum but we side-tracked by the post office. It took us over 2 hours to mail stuff home. This wasn´t abnormal because everyone there, waiting to mail stuff for the Christmas season, took just as long and their attitude seemed as if this was a normal occurrance at the place. It was like stepping back in time…in triplicate…not kidding!
The night train experience was nice. There were six beds to a “room” and we were on the top bunks. We slept pretty comfortably. We got off at the wrong stop. We were one stop early. When we realized it, the train was just pulling away. Oh well…we took Budapest´s metro to the correct station and caught another train to Pecs.
We made it to Pecs (pronounced somewhat like “paych”). There was a nice big church there and some ruins and a steep hill to look down on the city from. Nice place. We ate at a place called Tex-Mex. It was a little like eating back in a Minneapolis mexican restaurant. It was different but good. The rest of the evening, we hung out in our room. We think the water here was disagreeable to us (or at least something was). That´s all I´ll say about it.
Next day is where we are now…Vienna. We are about to go out and eat.
Write more later,
Dan
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