Oh my god this trip was bloody awful. I wrote about it and realised I had written 3 a4 sides and it was only a 5 day trip to Moldova and the Crimea. The things that happened was just mental.
Nearly got arrested for shoplifting in WhSmith in terminal 4 (my friend's fault). Missed my connecting flight to Chisinau from Bucharest. Met a kind American lady who gave me lift to my hostel but got lost so she took me to dinner to meet her friends instead...kinda awkward but it was the only nicest thing that happened in the entire trip.
It rained my first day and I was completely depressed with the town, people and the weather.
My guide bailed on me the last minute for my Transnistria trip so had to do it all by myself...dodgy place to go to so really needed the guide. Plucked up the courage to do it
myself and found the bus but got accosted by a guy who put his giant bollocks and dick in my face and then had the nerve to ask for money...surely that is not a handicap that
you're allowed to beg for money. Gigantism in just specific areas is strange.
Got lost in Bender Town (real place) but a nice lady with a moustache helped me on my way. Managed to get to Yalta in the Crimea but only got to visit the bus stations along the way as nobody knew what the hell I was talking about and the bus stations are all outside the
towns so it was bloody hard to ask for directions or find my way without any maps. Ok I was winging this part of the trip but I consider the Crimea to be practically Europe but I guess this far east and it's still the back of beyond with no bloody infrasrtucture for foreign travellers...but I'm not bitter.
It was an experience but I now realise I'm getting too old for this type of crap.
Oh and in my last few hours before my flight I got harrased by 5 drunk men who wanted me to party with them if you know what I mean. I decided I prefered them to the psycho guy who worked at the US embassy who kept pestering me to follow him to somewhere safe away from the drunks probably to poke and then fillet me to death. The card he showed me might have been his blockbusters card...so I jumped in a taxi to get as far away as possible.
