Leaving Istanbul I was quickly introduced to life on the tour and the rules that come with it. I was also introduced to many of the characters on board. I joined the second half of an already moving 47 day camping trip.
On my first day on the bus our driver 'Muzza' very nearly lost his licence. We were driving through Bulgaria and he was stopped for speeding and told to go hand in his licence. After a bit of talking the policeman changed their mind and we continued on.
The walking tour in Sophia was fairly boring. The city did not seem to have a lot to offer except some really old churches. For lunch and dinner we ate at the most Westernised restaurant in the city. After dinner a few of us found that the amazing student nightlife we had been told about really wasn't that exciting.
We left Bulgaria for Romania and on our driving tour of Bucharest we stopped for photos outside the Palace of Parliament. It is the second largest building in the World behind the Pentagon in the USA. It is a very impressive looking building but the rest of the city looks fairly plain because they spent so much on the one building.
We rode with a crazy taxi driver to get dinner and luckily we made it there and back without injury and without getting ripped off. We had a free morning to explore Bucharest although because it was their Labour Day all the shops were shut. We did though manage to get free red t-shirts for pretending we were going to protest with the locals.
Next stop was Brasov, still in Romania and my first night camping which wasn't bad considering I had been on tour for five nights. Driving through Romania felt like driving through 1920. Many people still live in wooden shacks and their excitement for the day is watching cars go by.
We continued our drive through Romania stopping at Sighisoara, the birthplace of Dracula. This lead to a Dracula themed dress up day and the shananigans of the punch party in Cluj Napoca.
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