The rain continued last night, so we made a quick dash across the road for dinner at the same place we ate the first night. Not sure whether jet lag is still playing with us, but we both had problems sleeping between 1AM and 4AM. We thought we’d suffer for that later in the day, but we felt fine.
Our baggage had to be placed outside our room by 730AM for collection and transport to the ship ahead of us. About 2 minutes after we put it out, we left the room and it was gone! This was a little worrying as every other service in the hotel either took hours to complete, or was never completed! Our first thought that someone else had decided to “acquire” them, but then we found whole group of bags by the elevator!
It appears that all 180 cruise passengers were staying at the hotel, which made for a busy breakfast.
Today’s plan was to drive to the day house of Nicolae Ceaușescu, evidently he wasn’t satisfied with the 1100 room building we saw the other day. The house, as expected, in true communist style, was beyond lavish. Unfortunately no photography was allowed inside. Below is an outside view
From here we went on a tour of the city, which we had done on the the tuk-tuk. We got got far more information from the tuk-tuk driver!!
We then drove into the old part of the city where we had a little free time to explore and get some lunch.
We headed into the old city by foot and found the following.
A very small church with a long name Archangels Michael and Gabriel Church with some amazing ceilings
Some Murals on the side of buildings
The National Bank of Romania
And a sidewall lunch
After lunch, it was back on the coach for a quick visit to the parliament building (again), then off to find the boat, which was about 90 minutes south.
We were lucky in that we were the first of 5 coaches to arrive at the boat, so check in was easy. Our baggage was already in the cabin when we got there! This boat is very similar to the one we were on a couple of years ago. The main difference is that we don’t have the drinks package, however there is free wine and beer with dinner AND we were given 100 Euro ($156Cdn, $112US, 84Pounds) each by our travel agent to spend on any onboard items(booze?)
Tonight it’s off to the lounge for a Romanian folk show. Whoops, got that wrong we just took a 10 minute cruise across the Danube and we’re now in Bulgaria, so we went to a Bulgarian Folk show which was very entertaining. Time for sleep!!