Martin and I arrived in Cluj-Napoca, Romania at 2.00am and took a taxi to the hostel on Strada Albac where we were told to go when we arrived in Cluj. The taxi driver was very nice and tried to help us to find the entrance. After spending some minutes fumbling around in the dark I decided to try the other side of the building and alas we found it on the opposite street! I rang the bell and a man anwered the door and told me that I should come back tomorrow. This didn't sit too well with the taxi driver so he went back to the door and tried again! Still we were told to come back tomorrow so the taxi driver took us to another hostel and waited to see if we could get a room. After some knocking on the door we eventually managed to wake up the guy and he said we could have room! At last! We struggled with our bags up the two flights of stairs that we will have to move again in the morning but for now all we care about is eating and sleeping!

Journey to Romania

Arrived at the Ferry port just before boarding closed to discover that I had booked the ferry travelling in the wrong direction! (I think this was because I was talking to Martin on the phone at the time but I did read out the information aloud before I clicked the proceed button). Luckily there was room on the ferry and the nice lady on the desk managed to sort it out for us! We went through check in and a couple of Dutch guys directed us to the stairs and told us our cabin was down one flight. They must've had a right old laugh at us trying to carry all our luggage down the TWO flights of very steep stairs. After a well needed rest we went to explore and found that there was actually a lift that we could have took! The WEASELS!

However were soon on the move and got to work on finishing the carry out we'd brought with us! We went up onto the deck and waved goodbye to Great Britain then found our way to the bar where a man, who'd obviously been playing on ferries for a long time, strummed us a few covers and, bored as he was, made an attempt to entertain us with his patter!