Day 52 ROMANIA ORSOVA

We are more than halfway through our trip and it feels like it's going so quickly.
Our drive from Rau de Mori to Orsova was uneventful.

We went to the central markets first to stock up on keffir, yoghurt, fruit and vegetables. The only thing we didn't get were the leafy greens. They sold vegetables that you could plant but not for cooking and eating straight away. The vegetables came with a whole heap of soil like how seedlings were sold at Bunnings. One stall had a bag of spinach which we wanted but the bag was huge. We would have been eating spinach everyday for a week.

We stopped at the Herculean, a town where, Emperor and Empress Elizabeth (SiSi), built a massive bath house because there were natural hot springs in that region. It's now a broken town where most of the buildings are in disrepair, abandoned and even the roads, very broken with lots of potholes.

We found unexpectedly, torta cream cakes and lovely eclairs in a shop that's like a corner deli. It was very nice, though you'd never have thought that cakes were sold there.

Our apartment is very well appointed with uninterrupted views of the Danube River and Serbia directly across the river.
The iris here were in bloom with very varied colours. Most beautiful.Read more