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Original Topic: Train Trip Across Romania By: shodan_carmen Gender: M Age: 58 on Feb 8, 2009 at 5:29 AM Viewed 758 times 
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| Having taken the night train (17 hrs) to Iasi for Carmen's exams, we took the day train home.
Left at zero darkthirty. 
It was a little faster than this 
Last Big Train Station before the Mountains 
Leaving the big mountains behind  
Cannot get away from hauling hay--at least I had Carmen to help me here 
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Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: Annie53 Gender: F Age: 57 on Feb 8, 2009 at 6:10 AM 
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 This so much reminds of ukraine when I went there..plus going through other countries, horse & cart, the churches, the cemetaries, the poorness there. |
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Reply: Re: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: shodan_carmen Gender: M Age: 58 on Feb 8, 2009 at 7:31 AM
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Yes, quite a contrast between the big cities and the country, although there were chickens and geese in the back yard of a house next to our hotel on the University campus...and a shopping mall 200 meters away. The Romanian countryside reminds me of the verse that Godliness with contentment is great gain. |
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Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: Novelangel Gender: F Age: 39 on Feb 8, 2009 at 8:17 AM
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Your pictures are beautiful! :2thumbs: I love the scenery and so well framed too! I can't wait for my overseas trip so I can take bunches of pics of places and people and basic ambiance.  :spot1: |
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Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: anneke Gender: F Age: 54 on Feb 8, 2009 at 9:55 AM
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 That must have been an awesome, peaceful trip.
Is everything really as neat and organized as it looks on the pictures? Thanks for sharing. |
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No. 5
Reply: Re: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: shodan_carmen Gender: M Age: 58 on Feb 8, 2009 at 1:56 PM
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Yes, Anneke, even when they haul manure out in the field with the wagaon and the horse, they make small piles in the field, all the same size, all equally spaced. But when you get in or near the big cities there is always trash: empty plasitc bottles and trash scattered around by the dumbster sites and along the RR tracks. At the U. in Iasi, there was an empty lot near our hotel that was a mess.  |
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No. 6
Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: integrity Gender: F Age: 29 on Feb 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM
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| Wow! What a breathtaking train ride!
It's so funny how places in Europe can almost seem like they've been trapped in a time capsule. The architecture is beautiful! The country side reminds me of Lithuania. It was so funny, in Lithuania, they chained their cows to little cement blocks in their fields. They could only roam as far as their ropes allowed. But the hay in the fields were piled up in high stacks, just like you see in your photos. Thanks so much for sharing!!! The only perspective that I've seen of Romania has been the sewers and the life below... 
I have friends that have gone for ministry and that's where they went, it was so sad to see what happens when government dictates daily life and sets harsh restrictions for their people. They're still dealing with the back lash of that now (or were a few years ago). |
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Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: chrissa9969 Gender: F Age: 47 on Feb 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
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 How Beautiful! What a wonderful memory you are making. |
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No. 8
Reply: Re: Train Trip Across Romania By: shodan_carmen Gender: M Age: 58 on Mar 23, 2009 at 12:09 AM
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