It all began around 8 am when I went to the trains station to pick up a french girl coming from sofia and staying with me for some days. The first surprise was the incredible delay of the train (205 min)...but she finally get there around 10 am. She came out of the train together with a dutch couple and I felt the need to helped them out so I took them to the location of their accommodation.
The middle of the day was uneventful...we had lunch, a walk in the park, a nap and the fun started at 6 pm when we went to meet up with a guide who offered "Walking Free" tours of the city (the first time I've heard of such a thing)...and the guy organizing the tour was quite good with the stories
We met him, the dutch couple from the train station and some other foreign people in the Unirii square and from there, with a group of about 20 persons we left for the old city center.
Inevitably I got to talk to some of the other people in the group - as I was talking in English with my french couchsurfer everyone else thought I was foreign too
All well and good until one of the other five came to me and showed me a calendar with some of the most known sites in Romania (thinking I was foreign and all of that was new to me) ... and I just wanted to make small talk and tried to ask him about their plans in Romania, but he didn't understand I word I was saying so we called one of the guys that did know English.
The guy comes and we began to talk in English about their future plans - he tells me that they have to spend 11 days in Romania , two in Bucharest, go 2 days in the Danube's Delta, then Brasov, Cluj and so on until Maramures, because one of them is from Romania ... and guess who exactly the one I was tormenting to understand myself with... the I just looked at the guy and told him in Romanian:"then we can talk in Romanian" and then he just burst in laugh and "You're romanian...why didn't you say so?" ... and all hell broke loose...I was talking in Romanian with the Romanian guy...he was translating in Spanish to the rest of the guys and the ones knowing English were talking to me in English
As we were going alone our tour, the storm brakes loose... things start falling from buildings, trees and branches flying and soon enough rain started to pour by the bucket and that's when we started running (it was about 10 min) towards the Old Town and we all got in the basement of a restaurant
We began talking again, just to settle what each one of us was doing in Bucharest and the plans for the future and I just heard my french friend she would like to accompany the 7 spanish guys in their trip up north:))
that was all ... I'll keep you posted on the spanish-french adventure of my 8 new friends:))
Love u. Take care.
We met him, the dutch couple from the train station and some other foreign people in the Unirii square and from there, with a group of about 20 persons we left for the old city center.
Inevitably I got to talk to some of the other people in the group - as I was talking in English with my french couchsurfer everyone else thought I was foreign too
There was this group of seven individuals from Spain ... yeah, my favorite people ... of which only two understood and spoke English ... so you can imagine how the other five kept trying to know what the hell was going on :))
All well and good until one of the other five came to me and showed me a calendar with some of the most known sites in Romania (thinking I was foreign and all of that was new to me) ... and I just wanted to make small talk and tried to ask him about their plans in Romania, but he didn't understand I word I was saying so we called one of the guys that did know English.
The guy comes and we began to talk in English about their future plans - he tells me that they have to spend 11 days in Romania , two in Bucharest, go 2 days in the Danube's Delta, then Brasov, Cluj and so on until Maramures, because one of them is from Romania ... and guess who exactly the one I was tormenting to understand myself with... the I just looked at the guy and told him in Romanian:"then we can talk in Romanian" and then he just burst in laugh and "You're romanian...why didn't you say so?" ... and all hell broke loose...I was talking in Romanian with the Romanian guy...he was translating in Spanish to the rest of the guys and the ones knowing English were talking to me in English
As we were going alone our tour, the storm brakes loose... things start falling from buildings, trees and branches flying and soon enough rain started to pour by the bucket and that's when we started running (it was about 10 min) towards the Old Town and we all got in the basement of a restaurant
We began talking again, just to settle what each one of us was doing in Bucharest and the plans for the future and I just heard my french friend she would like to accompany the 7 spanish guys in their trip up north:))
Around 9.30pm ... we moved to Caru cu Bere ... they had "sarmalute" and "mititei" until 12pm, keep on talking all the way through the dinner:) and it was getting crazy as every time I attempt to explain something and I couldn't make myself understood in English, I talked with the romanian guy and he translated into Spanish...or the other way around:))
Around 12 we said our goodbyes, wishing everyone a great romanian adventure. I left Caru cu Bere with my french friend and the guide ... I was tried to walk home so we wanted to try to take the famous night buses and I don't know how exactly we found exactly the one with a control on it. I saw them from the beginning but it was to late to leave the bus so I just told the guide we should pretend we are foreigners and we don't understand anything. And then was when the show began. We started arguing with them (a guy and a woman), but they kept on asking for money, we kept on playing dumb...until the bus stopped in front of a police car:))...and the circus continued with the cops too...until my french friend gave up and paid them the fine(50 ron for all three)
that was all ... I'll keep you posted on the spanish-french adventure of my 8 new friends:))
Love u. Take care.
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