My romanian trips - Iasi, Chisinau and Oddesa - part. 2

After we've arrived to Chisinau we were really surprised by the poor conditions of the roads in the city. It was after all the country's capital and the acces road that we were going on was in really bad shape. After we got off the bus, we still had like a 2 km of walking to our hostel. The other unpleasent suprise that we've encountered was the fact that there were city lights only by the mainroads, so to our hostel we had to walk almost in complete darkness. After we checked in in the place of our accomodation, we asked the hostel's stuff for the directions to the closest restaurant and we went to eat something.
The third surprise that we had that day was the price of our meal. Everything was so affordable that we decided to order some drinks too!

Our meal

Next day we went to see the city and it turned out that in this day there was a great manifestation in the city square. People gathering on this event were showing their support for reunification of Republic of Moldova and Romania. The day of protest was no an random one. It was 1st December which is the biggest romanian national holiday - the day of unification of all three romanian states: Wallachia, Transilvania and Modlova.

As we all knew the problem we decided to join the manifestation. For me it was extraordinary experience because during my studies I had to do some research about unification trends in Republic of Moldova. Together with protesters we held one kilometer long romanian flag and we've been yelling out pro-unification slogans.

It may not look that way but this flag was way heavier than it seems to be. I had to hold it with a bare hand because otherwise it would slip out. We were standing there for maybe an hour and we started to feel how cold it is. Then our pro-unification zeal faded away and we decided that we are going to eat someting.

After feeding ourselves with good moldovan cuisine we went to see the city. It looked better then during the night but I have to admit that it had very socialist type of architecture - even stronger then Bucharest. After seeing some monuments we've bought tickets for tommorow's bus to Odessa and we went back to our hostel.