Romania
We went to Romania. Why? Because it’s a big country to tick off, and it was well cheap! Went to the city of Timisoara. Yeah, I’d never heard of it before either. Turns out, Timisoara is like a Stoke, or Runcorn. I’ve never been to Runcorn, but it’s probably the same.
AirBnB
Stayed in an AirBnB just to the north of the city centre. Little bit of a walk in but was ok. Only bad thing was it was along a busy dual carriageway type road. We got a taxi in and out a couple of times, which was ridiculously cheap.
Cathedral One
First place we found on our travels was a little green square, with the beautiful St George’s Cathedral in it. Lovely building. I always find St George fascinating. Patron Saint of England, but never got around to actually visiting! He probably visited this little square though.
Cathedral Two
Walking around the centre, found it strange that it was so quiet. Nice buildings here and there, cool little statues and street art installations and that, but very quiet. We walked through the centre and ended up at the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral. Went in here and like most cathedrals and churches in Europe, really nice inside. Taught the kids that you must be quiet in churches, which is no easy task with our pair! Worked every time though.
Parks and Cats
There’s quite a few green spaces in Timisoara, with some really good kids’ parks in. Made the most of these. We all enjoyed and that. We then found a cat café. These cats weren’t as well looked after as others we had been to but was probably better than living on the streets and that.
Next day, had another trip to the centre. Stopped off at a shopping centre to see what was in there. Shops. Had some lunch in the food court. Thanks Google Translate and Romanian’s learning English. And pointing.
Went back to the Orthodox church just because it’s nice. Then, we went to the Zoo. Standard zoo. Quite a good petting area, little goats and deer knocking about. Not great conditions for the rest of it mind. Wouldn’t go back there.
All in all, an odd little trip. Nice to get to Romania. Would still like to go to Bucharest and that. I can’t imagine many people coming to the UK and heading for Milton Keynes, or Wrexham.
