Today started with a puncture, before we’d even left the hotel car park!  I forgot to tell you yesterday that on the character-building course, I had a front puncture, just after the village/kids from hell scenario and strangely, it was a drawing pin!   (more…)

We stayed in the city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin last night, which isn’t too far from the border.  It is a city that has definitely seen better days, although it did have a fantastic new fountain, with moving parts!  There was a port 100 metres from our hotel, but it was like a ghost town, so maybe a city that used to have lots of port activity but now hasn’t?   We stayed in a huge hotel complex, a 1970s concrete monstrosity, which again, had also seen better days and was very ‘tired’. (more…)