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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Day 52 It's loud in here...

...but we wanted to bring you an update, regardless. Right now, Wally, Cindy and I are in an internet cafe in a town that we have all forgotten the name of...again.What we are finding in most internet cafes in Romania is a plethora of kids playing computer games, all blaring their own music as each tries to out-blare the other. The decibel levels and mix of rap and what sounds like latin/east indian (I don't know!) pop and computer beeps and squeels are enough to make me want to pull out my own hair and then start on the person beside me.
One boy stands reading over my shoulder - can he understand? Who knows...anyway, I'll try to concentrate enough to write now.
We have had a very enjoyable couple of days, with 70km/day averages and gorgeous weather. As we head closer to the Black Sea, we get into hotter temps and today was a moist-upper lip day of 29 degrees.
We arrive at our hotels around 1pm and then usually go for lunch and beverages. The other night, we had a ripping game of cards and that nasty Slivovitz came out again, but there were no catastrophes to speak of this time - seems people learned from the last episode!
Unfortunately, because there were 6 of us in the small room that night,we had the windows wide open and noticed too late that the room was slowly starting to swarm with mosquiotes. As it was Cindy and my's room, we suffered the consequences - too hot to sleep under any covers, we tried various unsuccessful techniques, like laying fully clothed on top of bedsheets, or laying completely naked under thin sheets.
After about 2 hours, we both got up in maniacal frenzy, ran to Troy and David's room to get the key to the van, ran down to the van to get the mozzie spray and then I proceeded to spray everything in the room with the toxic shite.
That only satiated us until the coughing started from all the fumes.
Did I mention there was a wedding going on downstairs that was playing really loud techno music until 6am? Yep. Apparently, Romania has the largest concentration of married people (in the world/Europe?). We have definitely noticed this in the form of decorated cars and most restaurants where we might have to wrestle our server away from blowing up balloons to order.
At last check we were 5 days ahead of schedule and so to combat this, we are planning a few days on the beaches of the Black Sea, lapping it up and for some of us, contemplating our next move for when the trip is done.

1 comment:

Judy Tierney said...

Hello Walter, I have been following your amazing journey with increasing admiration. You are a marvel. Despite your struggle with cystic fibrosis you are showing the world how to live!!!! Love and best wishes to you and all in your team. Cheers, Judy Tierney