Day 2

The second day, September 2^nd, we arrived in Koln bright and early in the morning, around 6 am. The first thing that amazed us was the enormous cathedral just outside the train station.

This cathedral is one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedral in the world and it is hard to be missed as it can be seen from almost everywhere.

As everything was still closed we had to wonder around the city until the info center opened. The streets were clean and empty at that early hour in the morning.

From the very start we planned to take some bikes so that we can cover a larger part of the city until 10pm in the evening when we had to leave for Denmark…and so we did. For 10 euro each we rented great city bikes for the entire day.

We biked around, up and down the Rhine, through parks, gardens and streets. In one of them, through the middle of the park there was a train line, yap, you read it correctly...and it was even marked respectively.

During the day we also got to "visit" the pedestrian area of the city, where the only thing to do is shop.

In the evening we went up the highest tower in the city and watched it lighten up.

On our way back to the rental shop, we passed a bridge full of love locks. At first we did not know what was the meaning of hanging locks...and they were so many, all over one side of the bridge. Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolise their love, beginning in the 1980s, in the center of the southern Hungarian city of Pécs.

The first full day of the trip was a success. That was Koln and we liked it.

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Drinking problems

OK. I think the time has come that everybody know a very important piece of information about me, so that I don’t get pissed off every time I am asked to do it.

It may sound strange for most of you, OK, I’ll admit it, for all of you, but it’s a fact: I DO NOT DRINK COFFEE, NOR TEA….EVER… NOR ANYTHING CONTAINING THEM (CAPPUCCINO IS MADE OUT OF COFFEE FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT KNOW IT YET). I do not fucking care if you understand it or not, I do not need any of you to further explain me the extraordinary pleasure of drinking coffee or the healing powers of a hot tea…IT WON’T MAKE ME DRINK IT.

You make think I am stubborn with this, but actually I am not. I have tried to have a coffee, but the only thing I want to do when I barely smell coffee is throw up, so, NO THANKS, you can have it all, all the coffee in the world.

With tea there’s another story. I am not sure about this story, but I’ve been told from different sources that when I was little I used to drink a lot of tea, actually I even have prove…most of my photos as a baby involve a large pot of tea, so I came to the conclusion that I drank all the tea I needed in my first years of life and my body refuses to take any more.

Be it as it may, the conclusion is the same…I cannot have them in my body and there’s nothing to do about that.

P.S.: Don’t ask me out for a coffee, I will always accept a drink instead:))

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Day 1

Finally I got my hands on all the photos of the trip and now I can start telling the whole story and how else should I start if not with the very beginning.

Day number 1, September 1^st, we took the plane from Bucharest around 8pm and we arrived in Munich around 9.30 local time. At departure we were surprised to find out that the final destination of the flight was Miami, USA.

At the arrival we just had time take a quick look around the airport and at the luggage recovery area there was a huge front of a BMW car, nothing very interesting until we found out that the start button on the floor actually starts the car:))) Each time someone placed the foot on it a recorded sound of an engine could be heard – pretty cool.

After recovering our well packed luggage we headed right to the train station. After ingurgitating our first fast-food meals (Burger King was the option in Munich train station), around 10 pm we took the night train to Koln.

And that was about it for the first day.

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“Mada, you sleep so much…”

Last Sunday, when I arrived in Bucharest I just wanted to get straight home and get some real and nice sleep in my own bed. Of course I had to unpack and order things around first, but ultimately I did got to sleep…and I slept about 3 hours, which was not so much(according to me), but one of my roommates felt the need to tell me that I sleep a lot…oh well, what can I say, I like sleeping:))

You may wonder what’s so special about a 3 hour nap…the thing is that the day before yesterday, after the concert, I got to sleep about 4 hours, so yesterday I wasn’t in my greates shape at work. I went through the entire day just thinking at the great nap I would get in the evening. Of course when there were just a few minutes until the end of my schedule, something came up and I had to stay one extra hour. It wouldn’t have been so bad if I didn’t have to stay one hour in traffic afterwards…so, when I finally got home I defiantly needed that nap. I went to sleep, around 6.30pm.

At one point in time the alarm on the phone began ringing…what the hell, is it morning yet??? (I was wondering as I was searching for my phone) No, it was only 9.30pm and I had to take a stupid pill. And that’s about all I did:)) The next alarm was actually the one from 7.00am, next day:))

So, the initial supposition: “Mada sleeps a lot” was proven, but the problem is that I don’t feel as rested as I used to be after such a “nap”. Old age is getting to me:))

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Great music

Taking into consideration the last night concert, GN'R in Bucharest I will begin telling the story of the main attraction of the trip, the U2 concert.

In February this year we found out about this amazing band’s tour and we said we have to go. Firstly we decided to go to Athens, the closest city and changed it to Istanbul with the idea to have the opportunity to visit the city as well. It may sound strange but I am afraid of that city…there are 15 fucking million people in that city so I had to find another solution…thus: MUNICH. Now I really believe that those 90 something euro were the best spent money in the whole trip.

Location: Olympia Stadium

No. of people: 80.000

I can’t find the words to describe the feelings I had before, during and after that concert. The whole stadium was vibrating, all those people singing together songs we’ve known for so long and even new ones that did not even come out yet, applauding continuously…the show was UNIQUE.

The funny story behind the event was the fact that in the same day, almost simultaneously, BAYERN MUNICH had the first match in this season of Champions League with AS ROMA and while we were going to the concert the same amount of people was going to the game :)) and we all met at a common metro station where even the station man made fun of us indicating(ironically and making all kind of jokes) who, what metro should take that no one gets in the wrong place…we wouldn’t have wanted football supporters at the concert:). So, in the same city, at the same time, two stadiums where fully crowded with people. What a view must that have been from the sky?

The match was quite an important one and even Bono kept the score and inform the public at the end the result of the game:


Coming back to last night's concert...it was all as I predicted to be...a long and annoying wait and an awesome concert, old Axl can still do it:)). The expectations for this even were quite law taking into consideration the fact that I was just returning from U2, so I was not surprised of the poor conditions in which the concert took place or the old fashion romanian organisation.

The opening band were a noname(at least to me), with a saliva drinking lead singer who was repeating at each song what a long way they came from Canada to our little country(booooooring)...but never mind them…the idea is that old man Axl can still make one hell of a show and I am extremely glad I did not listen to all the skeptical people around me and went to the concert.

I'll come back with some photos in the evening.

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Thanks

I did not know where and with what I should start my stories about the Eurotrip and this morning I realized that the first thing I should do is to thank all the people involved and who’s contribution made this trip a success. In random order I would like to thank the following persons:

1. Alex and Cata, two of my oldest and best friends, for making this trip with me and sharing all it’s wonderful moments;

2. Lavinia, who made the trip to Copenhagen to meet with us and get to rediscover the city again;

3. Luise, a very nice Danish person, who let us stay at her apartment in Copenhagen, trusting us completely…wish we had spent more time together;

4. Asa, a very happy Swedish person, living in Oslo for some time, who also received us in her nice flat;

5. Toborg, Marc and Siri, a wonderful Norwegian family, in who’s house we stayed for 3 days and where we ate our first reindeer stew…until that moment I didn’t even know that people eat them, it was actually delicious; :))

6. Andrew, an Australian established in Germany for more than 2 years, who hosted us in his flat in Ausburg during the Ocktoberfest, when all the hotels and hostels were full;

7. Last, but not least, Bono, the main attraction, whose concert was the foundation of the entire trip and who gave us one hell of a show.

Hope I did not forget anybody. Thanks again guys and hope to do it again soon. :))

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That was it...

After 20 days, 4 countries, 8 cities...we're back.

There are so maaaaaany things to tell, so many adventures, so many new great people we had the chance to meet, new perspectives...everything was absolutely amazing. More stories about what happened in the eurotrip will come in the following days as soon as I gather around all the photos.

This is just one of hundreds of pictures we took, one that caught the spirit of the trip:


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day 4 of the eurotrip: 2 engineers, 2 economists and 1 litre of alcohol...

The 4th day of the eurotrip was in the lovely copenhagen. Although I had already seen it last year it was a great pleasure to discover it all over again and it was also a great chance to see one of my best friends who came to copenhagen to meet with us.

Coming back to the subject of the post...the second and last night of our stay we wanted to invite our host out for a drink...unfortunately for us she had other plans for the nigh so that's how we decided to spend all our remaining danish krone on alcohol:))

First a some beers in Nyhave, the old harbor and then we entered e first club we encountered. We started with another round of beers and as we examined the menu one of the boys said that they have a cocktail of 400ml of whiskey...actually the menu said 4 cl, which for a couple of seconds meant for all 4 of us 400 ml. Checking again the menu there was also a cocktail of 10cl, which by the above mentioned logic meant 1l...OK that was the moment we figured that's something was terribly wrong...1 cl is 10 ml or 100 ml??? such a tough question at that moment:))) we had to turn to other measuring units 1cm=10mm, so by analogy 1cl=10ml to figure out the mystery...at the end we burst into hysterical alcohol related laughter and and up in disappointment that there was no such thing as the one liter cocktail of alcohol:))

today, the 7th of september, the 6th day of the trip we are in Gotheborg, Sweden's second city. The weather was incredibly good so far, just some drops of rain the first day in Koln, but here in the Scandinavian countries not even a drop.

Tomorrow we'll be in Oslo, looking foreword to discover it's secretes.

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day 3 of the eurotrip

Greetings from Copenhagen

We are still alive:))

After 2 and a half days we are safe and sound in a very nice apartment all by ourselves...yup i said it right...we have found a person here in Copenhagen who trusted 4 romanians with the key to her apartment.

As we were not able to get to the meeting point on time this morning when we got to CPH after an 11 hours route from Koln she had to leave us the key under the door mat and even now at 10 o'clock in the evening we still haven't met this person...amazing, wright???

The most important thing is that the weather was incredibly nice so far and we hope to keep it that way till the end.

I'll try to keep you updated as much as I can.

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Mada - OUT

My dear friends...the DAY has come:)) At 19.10 P.M. our plane takes off with destination Munich and from there the adventure begins.

The nice weather I woke up to this morning made my day and I will endure these 7 hours from the workshop just for that. This day is also a day of celebration, it's my second aniversary at this job.

That's all...hope I will be able to write during the trip as well.

See you later aligator:))

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