Tag Archives: Romania
European Train Tour #4 – Eastern Europe
Train Tour Around Eastern Europe This is more an account of several train tours undertaken between 2006 and 2014, which form the basis of my second published work ‘On The Beaten Track’, available as an e-book download or a printed tome from Amazon. In all the book gives an account of over 15,000 track kilometres […]
Journey East?
When we think of a European break for a long weekend, statistics tell us that London, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Venice & Amsterdam are the most popular with the British and also figure very highly in the favourites for a lot of Western Europeans. They are all fantastic destinations of course with mountains of things to […]
It’s A Drag…..
I have been skiing twice in my life, once in Bulgaria and once in Romania. My ski style can best be described as unique and I still bear physical and mental scars from the experiences! As both of my alpine adventures took place in Eastern Europe, I included a few paragraphs in my book On […]
My Forthcoming Book Extract Five – Going Large In Bucharest
In 2011 I visited Bucharest for a day at the start of the journey to Moldova, Crimea and Northern Ukraine. Whilst there we visited a big building…….. The Palace of the Parliament in central Bucharest is the world’s largest civilian building with an administrative function and the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon in Washington DC. It is […]
SKI-LIFT – MY NINETEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
This article is lifted straight out of the text from my Forthcoming Book, which will be published soon….. My second ski holiday was to Poina Brasov in Transylvania. On the penultimate day of the trip I had an incident that was to prove to be my last ever day on skis. We had graduated to […]
