Hi Alin, nice to hear from you again - you've been a bit quiet recently. So you can get some perspective, the train from Cluj to Bucharest cost me about 20 (twenty) times less than a journey of equivalent distance in the UK. That would not be first class in the UK either, although I admit that our standard class on Inter City is better than your 1st class. On the other hand, at least you can run a train service, which is rather more than we seem able to do in Britain at the moment...
As for going by car, well as much as I enjoyed touring Bucovina with Valentin in his car I preferred the trains because I got to meet more people that way. I am very pro-train and quite anti-car for most purposes. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, February 06, 2002, 12:29:07 PM, you wrote: > Hi Bob and others, > I'm pleasantly surprised that an enjoyable train travel did happen to > you in Romania. It must have been with the narrow gauged local train > in Maramures. These diminutive, slow trains look as if were specially > conceived for touristic purposes. Unfortunately they are almost an > extinguished breed and the sad truth is that regular trains makes > for one of the less civilized sides of life in Romania. More, > what may seem a cheap fee to you, makes the country - for the vast > majority of the population - large as a continent. > For those of you forseeing a trip around here, do not pick anything > less than the intercity variety. Best option is a car, as roads are > on the acceptable side (hope it remains so). :o/ > Servus, Alin - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
