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18 July 2025
Getting to Iasi I made the 20 min walk from Cassandra Pension to Targu Neamt’s Flozampet Bus Station. It’s not a long walk but the surfaces of the sidewalks and roads were not smooth enough for a wheelie bag and that had slowed me down a little. The bus to Iasi left 5 mins early […]
18 July 2025
Getting to Agapia Today’s plan was to visit one or maybe two monasteries outside Targu Neamt. I had checked the bus schedule for Agapia Monastery at the station yesterday and also had an old timetable for Varatec Monastery. I walked to the bus station in time for the 0900 service to Agapia. The man who […]
16 July 2025
Getting to Targu Neamt Today I leave Suceava for the town of Targu Neamt, over an hour away by road. But there weren’t many buses available when I looked. I booked one leaving from the station at 0830. In my enquiries, it was possible to have a pickup from the carpark of a hotel near […]
15 July 2025
Bucovina’s painted monasteries Suceava is a good base for visiting the painted monasteries of the surrounding Bucovina area. But these monasteries are out of town and it is difficult to do with public transport. I was very fortunate to secure a tour at the last minute for a half-day tour that offered Humorului and Voronet […]
14 July 2025
Arriving in Suceava We landed at Suceava’s little airport at 0115. I love small airports like this an was out at the taxi rank in minutes. With the taxi not accepting card, it was only a short walk to the ATM in the departure hall to get cash. While waiting, a kind gentleman had called […]
14 July 2023
As we had our breakfast in our room, we both received a public service alert on the phone for high winds and some rain. Yep, it was happening outside already and was expected to last till after 1000. We waited for the weather to clear further before heading out around 1030. Today, we wanted to […]
13 July 2023
Elusive bus tickets We woke to strong morning sun around 0630. The ground appeared wet from rain earlier. I headed around 0715 to a supermarket to get some fruit, milk and yoghurt for breakfast. By the time I had showered, shaved and did some planning, it was around 1000 despite my early start. The information […]
12 July 2023
Above: View from our Uskudar cafe while killing time. It was a repeat of yesterday morning in that Kim went sightseeing without me. This time it was Istanbul’s Roman Basilica Cistern, which I had only been to last year. With no queues soon after its opening time of 0900, he was back in no time. […]
22 June 2018
The alarm woke us at 0530 and we walked to the station at 0600 leaving some time for coffee and sandwich at the station. Our train to Bucharest originated from Budapest Keleti station and was a few minutes early. We were seated in the last wagon. On my explorations during the journey, I wandered to […]
21 June 2018
We had another late start today; not good considering we have to wake early tomorrow for the 0643 train to Bucharest. In case we weren’t able to find a taxi tomorrow morning, we thought we’d check out the 11 minute walk to the station. Once the station was in sight, we decided to continue by […]