Romanian tour no 9 23 rd June 2012
Before dinner last night Matej asked if anybody wanted to go to Merry cemetery as he has 4 places in the car, i jumped at the chance Pauline let her place to to Karmila .
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The drive was quite a distance from the hotel but it was worth the visit .The cemetery is famous for its colourful tombstones with naive paintings describing in original poet manner ,the person that is buried there as well as s enes from their lives.It was very interesting even if i could not read the headstones,a priest was saying prayers over a loud speaker which echoed over the village.
All the crosses are pained blue it is an open air museum.
Todays ride was to be a long one 333 kl but Matej shortened the route as we had to be at the salt mine before 3 pm.
Briefing was at 8-15 clutch out 8-30 pm
All the riders except Anne (the lost one) is poorly and her bike s in the van and Matej as his credit card was taken by a ATM and he had to wait till the bank opened so he could recover it.
We leave the town and out into the country side again the paddocks are green and lush,the cows are fat, we pass more horse drawn carts,
We get onto a fast road but there is road works and traffic lights but we just ignore them cause we are on a mission.
Part of the road has a hot mix surface so we just whizz around the corners and little villages it sure made a lot of difference from riding pot holes.
We stop for a quick lunch hot beef soup and bread it was the quickest lunch we ever had, back on the road again we head for the salt mines
We park the bikes paid our 10 lea and head for the mine,Turda salt mine is know as one of the most important in all Transylvania .we set out and walk through the salt tunnel walked the many steps to a huge hole in the ground, all the notices were in Romanian so we did not understand any.When we arrived at the bottom it was like an amusement park it had a small "eye" ten pin bowling alley ' basketball court and a little island where you could row a small rowing boat, Rozle. Pauline and I had one as Rozle rowed us around.
Time was running short so at 4-30 we high tailed it to the hotel,getting changed we head for the "real little village "for a quick look around. Then off to dinner.this place is real quaint and all the rooms have folk art on the furniture real nice touch.
Dinner i was game enough to try the tripe soup it was a real shock, it was real good then shared our dinner with Steve he a nice guy.
Klem celebrated his 38 Birthday and the boys organized a wonderful birthday cake for him full of liquor it was real yummy
Before dinner last night Matej asked if anybody wanted to go to Merry cemetery as he has 4 places in the car, i jumped at the chance Pauline let her place to to Karmila .
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The drive was quite a distance from the hotel but it was worth the visit .The cemetery is famous for its colourful tombstones with naive paintings describing in original poet manner ,the person that is buried there as well as s enes from their lives.It was very interesting even if i could not read the headstones,a priest was saying prayers over a loud speaker which echoed over the village.All the crosses are pained blue it is an open air museum.
Todays ride was to be a long one 333 kl but Matej shortened the route as we had to be at the salt mine before 3 pm.
Briefing was at 8-15 clutch out 8-30 pm
All the riders except Anne (the lost one) is poorly and her bike s in the van and Matej as his credit card was taken by a ATM and he had to wait till the bank opened so he could recover it.
We leave the town and out into the country side again the paddocks are green and lush,the cows are fat, we pass more horse drawn carts,We get onto a fast road but there is road works and traffic lights but we just ignore them cause we are on a mission.
Part of the road has a hot mix surface so we just whizz around the corners and little villages it sure made a lot of difference from riding pot holes.We stop for a quick lunch hot beef soup and bread it was the quickest lunch we ever had, back on the road again we head for the salt mines
Time was running short so at 4-30 we high tailed it to the hotel,getting changed we head for the "real little village "for a quick look around. Then off to dinner.this place is real quaint and all the rooms have folk art on the furniture real nice touch.
Dinner i was game enough to try the tripe soup it was a real shock, it was real good then shared our dinner with Steve he a nice guy.
Klem celebrated his 38 Birthday and the boys organized a wonderful birthday cake for him full of liquor it was real yummy
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