Last weekend I decided it was time for some exploring. Thankfully I found someone who was willing to be my adventure buddy. (She is also with ABWE in Bucharest.) We headed out to a place I have wanted to visit for a long time...the Black Sea. We caught the 7:52 train out of Bucharest and spent 2:45 hours watching the Romanian countryside go by. We got out at Constanta, a Romanian Black Sea port with the intention of finding a beach and relaxing the day away.
We had been told that we could simply catch a taxi at the train station and ask them to take us to the nearest beach. However, once we got there the taxi drivers seemed a bit too aggressive, which is not usually a good sign. So we decided to walk a bit first and see if we could find the sea on our own. As soon as we walked out of the train station, we saw this...a harbor. Obviously we couldn't go swimming here, but we figured if we headed in the direction of the sea we would eventually find it.
Now it may have been a good idea to look at a map of the city before we came, or we could have checked our phones' GPS to see where we were, but we just didn't feel like it. So we wandered about 15 minutes and found some ancient Roman ruins.
Five minutes from here was the sea. It was that easy!
We spent the next couple hours relaxing on the beach and exploring a little bit.
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| Yes, that is a mosque. Constanta is not that far from Turkey. |
We caught the train back in the evening, and I enjoyed seeing a lot of shepherds with their sheep, goats, or cows while we road by. It was a fun excursion, although I am still peeling from the sunburn a week later.
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