Day 57 ROMANIA Timisoara

We had a walk around the Old Town of Timisoara. It's a town that has some famous individuals born here and some events of great significance started here.
Jon Weissmueller, the original Tarzan, Illy coffee owner, and the start of revolutions all began here in Timisoara. Their claim to fame was that street lights also started here.

Timisoara also had lovely architecture and interesting streets to walk down.

We had a ride in the vapretto, public transport ferry, up and down the Bega River for 5lei ($1.60 AUD) each. Most inexpensive. There was a character on the ferry, an enthusiasts elderly lady who dragged the obliging conductor to different parts of the ferry to have her photo taken. She was travelling alone and wanted to post the photos on Facebook for her family and grandchildren.
Ruby and I got honked at because we moved in front of the ferry waiting to disembark and obscured the captain's view. Gave me a great start but served us right for not thinking.

We had a conversation with the owner of the coffee shop we stopped at for me to have coffee. He explained his thoughts behind the setting up of this coffee shop, that his primary focus was about the coffee; not about fancy food, not about decor, and certainly not about being trendy. The coffee was certainly delicious. Somehow the conversation steered to his experience of the last days of communism and the years after. I had to drag Ruby away as we had a walking tour booked.Read more