Europe 2018

After walking all day, I rode the Bucharest metro to the train station to buy my tickets for both the trip to Brasov tomorrow, and the night train on Saturday. It's impossible to buy these tickets online, so I was nervous about whether I would have trouble buying the night train tickets. Even in person, the ticket buying but process was not at all straight forward. There are dozens of numbered windows with no indication of what they are for. Each had at least 10 people in line. I found a policeman and asked and he directed me to a completely different place in the building. I saw a sign that I could roughly translate as sleeper tickets, and after waiting for about 15 mins, was told I was in the wrong place. I was forced to window #1 which was all the way at the end. Sure enough, the train I wanted was nearly sold out. I managed to get one bunk in a mixed sex shared compartment with 4 beds. I also purchased the train to Braşov leaving tomorrow around noon. I went back to my hostel and passed out on the bed. When I woke up hungry, I decided that something simple for dinner would be best, so I came to an Italian place I had passed on my walk. (Btw, I had read that my hostel had stairs, but I didn't realize that they were the narrow spiral kind! Talk about regretting bringing the larger suitcase!)Read more