Monday, October 1, 2007

Wednesday, 26 Sep: Sighetu Marmatiei - Cluj

Heading northwest some 11km we arrived at a place called Sapanta that hosts the "happy cemetery", which is a cemetery where the gravestones writings are with rhymes. While it is called the happy cemetery I could find nothing happy about it. There was a large organized group of Israelis there. Nothing particular about this detail really...

We proceeded west about 105km on road 19 to Satu Mare, which is a bigger city. Still, we just passed through and continued to south another 17km all the way to Cluj.

Cluj is a big city and for the first time it was quite difficult to find a place to stay. It seemed all hotels were fully booked. Fortunately for us, a central hotel had a cancellation (the dude got stuck on the road or something). The owners of this hotel as we found out later was an older Israeli couple originally from Romania...

Bad Restaurant experience: In the evening we went to a food joint (I would not dare call it a restaurant). Mom ordered soup and dad a burger. Mom's soup was a little on the cold side and she asked that it be warmed up, and it was. Dad's burger was as cold as the Potomac river in the winter.. When he pointed that out the waitress, she took it and never brought it or a replacement back. Finally, we were billed for it. When talking to the waitress about it, she had the nerve to claim that he ate half, while he only had a (bad) bite. Next, she claimed it sat on the table for 10 minutes. Ultimately, the item was removed.

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