{"id":11815,"date":"2013-10-23T08:09:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T07:09:35","slug":"day-off-in-constanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11815","title":{"rendered":"Day off in Constanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 22nd October<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11816\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816 \" alt=\"Cabling Constanta\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6685-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6685-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6685-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6685.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cabling Constanta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After yesterdays tough ride from\u00a0Silistra on the Bulgarian)Romanian border I decided to take a day out and luxuriate in mv somewhat \u00a0faded 5 star accommodation.<span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.5;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I managed to get the data sorted with Vodafone on my iPhone, I think it broke because I tried calling the UK on my Romanian number. This wasn&#8217;t allowed so basically I lost my data plan. \u00a0\u00a39 later I walked out with another 1GB of data all working.<\/p>\n<p>I went into a few travel agents, but they all laughed and thought I was nuts wanting to return to Budapest on a boat \ud83d\ude41 The town itself is one hell of a mess with all the pavements torn up whilst they are laying miles of ducting for cables, interestingly using masses of labour rather than diggers. Took a lot of effort to find a coffee shop but worth the wait to find Zoomserie and it&#8217;s yummy ice cream &amp; pleasant staff after a haircut it was back to the hotel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11818\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11818\" alt=\"Grain for Turkey\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6697-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6697-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6697-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6697.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grain for Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the afternoon I took myself of to the docks &amp; Pier 31,the grain terminal. Fascinating to see the huge queue of trucks waiting to unload the corn \u00a0alongside \u00a0the hundreds of rusting, disbanded railway wagons. I spoke to the manager who rang the shipping company but it was all no can do. I pottered off to the ships that were loading corn up. One was off to Izmir, i suspect if I had $150 to thrust in his palm I could have had a lift, but didn&#8217;t fancy Turkey just yet. The other boat was of to Pakistan. It&#8217;s interesting and I feel you can travel this way but you need hard cash in your pocket &amp; your stuff with you. Another time maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So basically there seems to be no straight forward way to get a \u00a0boat back up The Danube from Constanta. Tomorrow I continue \u00a0to find The Danube,<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5937681819379848993\">pictures of the day are here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday 22nd October After yesterdays tough ride from\u00a0Silistra on the Bulgarian)Romanian border I decided to take a day out and luxuriate in mv somewhat \u00a0faded 5 star accommodation. I managed to get the data sorted with Vodafone on my iPhone, I think it broke because I tried calling the UK on my Romanian number. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danube-bike-trail","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}