Budapest to Brasov
An overnight sleeper
I did not want to go to sleep early and since sitting up in our beds was impossible, I headed to the dining car to sit and eat and drink which I did quite successfully-— too successfully in fact! I ate a yummy dinner of roasted capsicum, tomato and pickled cabbage followed by pork, chips and mushrooms.
We played a game of euchre while Keeley slept before everyone except Stacey and me headed to bed. We stayed up reading about Brasov on Stacey’s web archive pages, and drinking and chatting until we were joined by a tearful Keeley whose cabin had been broken into by the Romanian Police demanding to see her passport.
Stacey had to go back to my cabin to get my passport as well as hers. The policewoman was not happy at being kept waiting, and I tried to make small talk — very hard when she didn’t speak English and I don’t speak Romanian, but I did compliment her on her lovely nails which were done very artistically.
Pity I didn’t have mine to show her! Keeley then stayed up with us until about 2 am when we headed to bed. It didn’t take me long to fall asleep and had many vodka-fuelled dreams before being awoken by Stacey as we had to pack up, get dressed, and have some breakfast before hopping off in Brasov, Transylvania. We made it, but only just!
