On and Off the Rails
Wednesday July 25, 2007
I am writing this from my guest-house in Braşov, Romania, where I’m taking a couple of days’ break before heading on to Bucharest and then to Bulgaria. So I haven’t blogged for the past week, as I’ve been staying all over the place and spending a great deal of time on trains. For those who don’t know already, this is the beginning of what will be a two month journey to research my second novel, and so far, things are going well. Travelling by train is far more fun than going by plane – it gives long, long hours of nothing to do except watch the landscape slide past, it is more sociable than flying, and on the train you can really feel the change in the terrain as you move. It has its disadvantages, however: being woken up three times in the night by Hungarian and Romanian border guards; but the pleasures of the journey more than compensate for the inconveniences.
As a result of all this moving, and given that wifi access is patchy in Eastern Europe, I will not be back in action with blogging properly until I get settled into life in Sofia at the end of the month. So don’t adjust your sets, as they used to say: normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Thanks for this. I spent several weeks in Brasov 15 years ago, and reading your post has brought back many pleasant memories of this time.
May you continue to enjoy your journey.
— Craig · Jul 25, 04:15 PM · #
