Vara la tara! Rest day #3. In the morning I stayed home with Ducu in Buzau. In the early afternoon I got back on the bike to the village of Aldeni - 20 km away - to meet with Rica and Tataie (or: grandfather). Really, it was nice to see Tataie in such a good health at the fairly young age of 91. He didnt change a bit after all those years, including the grinning stories about how he was walking with the girls in Cismigiu Park in Bucharest in the early 1940ies.
After a late lunch under the grapevines I wanted to go to Bisoca - a village nearby up in the mountains. In 2004 I spent three weeks in the village volunteering in the holyday youth center - then my second stay in the country, many followed afterwards. I am wondering if the village changed to the same extent as i had experienced in the rest of the country. I checked google streetview before and erroneously concluded that the road was ok.
In the end Bisoca - at least the Campus- turned out to be a couple of km too far. The road was the worst (and actually the only bad one) I got in Romania - with a lot of unpaved streches. So I called it a day and turned back down to Aldeni in order to be there before dark. Anyway, I have to go back to Bisoca! One day, sooner or later!
After a late lunch under the grapevines I wanted to go to Bisoca - a village nearby up in the mountains. In 2004 I spent three weeks in the village volunteering in the holyday youth center - then my second stay in the country, many followed afterwards. I am wondering if the village changed to the same extent as i had experienced in the rest of the country. I checked google streetview before and erroneously concluded that the road was ok.
In the end Bisoca - at least the Campus- turned out to be a couple of km too far. The road was the worst (and actually the only bad one) I got in Romania - with a lot of unpaved streches. So I called it a day and turned back down to Aldeni in order to be there before dark. Anyway, I have to go back to Bisoca! One day, sooner or later!