We filled up just down from the hotel, then made our way to our first stop at the monument commemorating the discovery in 1995 of 3 neolithic stone tables, the Tartaria Tablets, thought to be the earliest form of writing.
Next stop was a Museum of Transilvanian buildings. There's a similar thing in the UK. Old buildings of the region moved to one location and restored. The place was free, not that that had any bearing and we wandered around taking photos. It was really interesting seeing the different styles, from wood to stone. Up on the hill was a monument with what looked like a big sword on top. Not sure what it was exactly.
We set off on to our hotel, in Timisoara. The ride was pretty good, a steady 50mph and some really good, fairly empty roads, all except at one point, as we climbed into the hills. Suddenly we came to a queue of traffic, We sat in the queue for a while, nothing moving, before I decided to ride down the outside. There was nothing coming the other way. We made up a lot of ground before anything came the other way. Then we got to a point where I couldn't see around a corner and big truck, so we had to sit and wait. Nothing moved for ages. Chaps behind said it was roadworks and a friend had been stuck for 2h30m. Eventually we got moving and were able to overtake cars/trucks again. We came to a point where the top surface was being removed, it was just rubble for about 100m, then on nice new tarmac we were off, But not for long. Another stop. No chance of getting through this time, as the opposite direction was backed up waiting to go through what we had just come through. So we waited.
A young lady going the other way (what is it with you and blondes? says Grizzly) wound down her window and called out, So I wandered over and had a chat. Apparently there more works in our direction. I said I thought they had a fairly long wait. We on the other had, after hanging around for a while chatting and taking photos were on the move again, It was absolutely ridiculous. They were doing 2 lots of re-surfacing about 3 miles apart but causing ridiculously long tailbacks in either direction. What a f*ck up! Clowns.
We skipped our 2nd fuel stop, as it was in part of the gridlock and stopped a bit later on. From then on it was plain sailing into our hotel,
There was no dinner available at the hotel, so we made our way to the Timisoara brewery beer garden, and got lucky with a a table, as it was packed. We sampled the local brew along with a couple of meals, great value. Two meals and 5 beers for £24! It was a fine way to finish off our time in Romania.
Pics of the day.
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| Monument Tăblițele de la Tărtăria |
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| The church, Muzeul Satului Transilvanean |
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| Going nowhere fast |
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Romania and will spend the night in Hungary. We've ridden in Hungary before. Not that makes any difference.
Come back for more tomorrow.
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