Sunday 12 May, Day 9
I was up early having thought of another, more workable
answer to our Constanta-Varna problem. (For some months, since learning that
there is no afternoon bus, we have been trying to nail down a rent-a-car man
who said he would get a driver for us.
Even yesterday he was still saying – talk tomorrow.) So I was on the internet, and now we are
staying for a night at Constanta, which might be good.
We were nice and early for our train, being well glad to be
away from Vila 11. It was old,
cluttered, smelly, we were on the top floor with frightfully steep stairs to
overcome, the internet didn’t reach us, the sheets didn’t tuck in so rolled all
night with us, we even had no toilet paper.
Those stairs don't look half as steep as they were, and being marble they were quite slippery. We didn't dare not hold on, especially at the corners where the treads tapered to almost nothing.
We left at 9:30 with 2 window seats, and I got lots of this
up to date. We arrived at 11:30, and got
a taxi around the block to our hotel and paid a fortune for the trip. But the hotel is luxury (3 stars) in comparison
with what we’ve just left. We settled
in, then went to town.
We couldn’t find the tourist info centre as advertised, but
had lunch at a cafeteria at the top of a building in the plaza, then walked
through the ‘old town’, visiting the museum of arts (lots of traditional
costumes), the Roman mosaic pavement, and St Peter and Paul’s Orthodox
cathedral for a kitsch nativity clock.
At the old casino we paddled in the Black Sea (number 2 on our list of
coloured seas),
Then walked more until it was nearly dinner time. We had pizza/schwarma dinner alfresco at a strange place that went right through to the next street, and in the back half were a mob of elderly locals, some sitting at tables and some doing ballroom and folk-type dancing.
After that, we bussed back to the station and
came home to really get on top of our homework.
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