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Do I get on it or not? A split second decision. I shouted, “Bulgaria, Bulgaria” to the station manager as I was trying to make sense of it, but she just smiled and ushered me to get on … so I did.
I thought I would write a piece about how my life as a traveller differs from that of a tourist. Although I was in the tourist city of Brasov, Romania – I was not focussed on seeing the sights (or is it sites?) but instead on living a normal life whilst exploring the local area and interacting as much as I feel comfortable with, being an introvert.
We left lot of people on the platform and I worked out that they were waiting for a later train in the opposite direction for Kyiv, Ukraine. I couldn’t help but feel that my journey in the opposite direction was going to be opposite in more ways than one.
I think waking up to see a McDonald’s outside, sums up my 9 days in Chișinău… it was not at all what I was expecting.
On arrival at Chisinau it was like a scene out of a horror movie with the dark skies illuminated by lightning flashes and then the clap of thunder not far behind. As I slowly made my way outside I could see pools of water where a carpark should be …