After leaving Bucharest, I headed far west on a 12 hour bus journey to Timisoara, in far west Transylvania. I had a lovely three day stay eating ciorba – traditional soup – delicious. Two lovely ladies, one named Andreea and another, Loradana looked after me and Andreea even showed me around some of the university city. I visited the Revolution Museum with a local guy I met on the street and he took photos.
Next I headed to Alba Lulia for a couple of nights,
Tony has just visited Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey with Tatiana. They’re now back in Athens. Tony sets off to Romania on Tuesday. This will be his 92nd country. He intends to also visit Ukraine and Moldova on this trip and will be back in UK after 12th June.
Tony is now back in England after travels in Cyprus with Tatiana and Spain, Andorra, France and Monaco by himself.
Tony plans to team up with his girlfriend Tatiana at end of April and head to Turkey together.
Tony is now in Athens, Greece until 29th January.
Tony has very recently crossed into Ethiopia at the border with Kenya. It was a difficult and somewhat dangerous crossing, what with a tribal conflict occurring at the Kenyan side and Tony and other travellers having to use illegal transport and mountain tracks to enter Ethiopia. This is Tony’s 88th country visited.
