Back on the road again, in North Romania, on way to the state of Moldova, and still looking for somewhere to spend the night.
Past the Peatra Neamt turnoff we encountered this scenery town with a nice castle.
Finally stopped at this petrol station for the night - here we are starting off in the early morning.
Getting close to the border now.
Very cool border post.
Getting my papers ready.
And we're through. I guess this body of water marks the border. Maybe one of those pipes belongs to Romania, and one to Moldova?
Police keeping a watchful eye at the Moldovan border post.
And we're in Moldova! A group of cows in a field without a fence next to the road. Nothing could go wrong there, right?
Plenty of police around. Maybe they're looking for someone. Guess I won't pick up any hitch-hikers today.
ProMods Moldova is the 2nd of 3 small pockets of other countries lying to the North (Ukraine), East (Moldova) and South (Bulgaria) of Romania. Serbia and Hungary lie to the west, but we won't be going there. Each of these 'pockets' are quite small, but nice to visit. Moldova has 2 cities, Balti and Chisinau (again, excuse me for missing out the accents). Here we are approaching Balti.
Balti.
Had a bit of a break in Balti, and then it was time to push on to Moldova's capital, Chisinau.
Aside from the cool border posts, Moldova also stands out via its mixture of road surfaces - damaged roads, concrete panels, cobble stones, dirt roads.
It's this guy again.
Arriving in the somewhat grim city of Chisinau.
Let's make that delivery. Bumped into a representative of a local truck company while enjoying a well-earned drink in a local bar. He needed someone for a couple of jobs, so I thought why not, especially as a. their trucks were yellow and I'm going through a yellow period right now, and b. the jobs involved driving a so-called 'rigid', which I've always wanted to do.
The first job involved dropping off various consumables to petrol station shops around Bucharest. So, here we are the next morning, heading for the border with Romania.
Leaving town past this sprinting soldier.
...and this giant communications tower. Romania awaits... in the next set.