My romanian trips - Iasi, Chisinau and Odessa - part.1

So at the end of the November the friends of mine and I wanted to go on a longer trip. We have been thinking for a while where to go and after several days of debating that issue we finaly have decided that we will go to visit Iasi, Chisinau and Odessa, from where we will come back to Bucharest with a direct bus.

We took a night train to Iasi at the 28th of November and we arrived there next day at the morning. We have been really exhausted with the journey so after we've left the train we went directly to the hotel. Unfortunately only one room out of two was available, but we've managed somehow to squeeze in one. We've slept few hours and we went off to see the city.

In train

Palace of Culture in Iasi

After sightseeing the city we went to a store near our hotel to buy a couple of drinks and we went to drink them in the place of our accomodation because Iasi, in contrast to Bucharest got a little bit empty in the night. We also coudn't party all that much because the day after we had to catch a bus to Chisinau, which was a little harder then we expected.

Next day, after we got on the bus station we were informed that going to Chisinau from Iasi is not that simple at all. The only buses that had courses on that route were those in a type of "marshrutka" - small buses typical for the countries of former Soviet Union. We wanted to go to Moldova day before Romanian day of unity - the biggest national day, and of course, a day off. The number of people that wanted to cross the border was stunning - most of them were workers returning to Republic of Moldova for holidays. We weren't able to get to any of those buses so we went to the train station but they told us there that the first train goes to Chisinau in two days. Having no other option we went back to bus station and, after 3 hours of waiting we managed to leave for Chisinau.