Galeria Caspar

07-07-2016


13-07-2016, născut astăzi, trei mierle.


Intercity în regiunea mea.

Short trip to București

Sindce 2008 I´ve visited Romania every year once, but this year I wasn´t untill this week. Thursday and friday I was free from work, and wednesday 30 november at 13h I decided to do something spectacular. To go last minute with a friend to București. 13.30h I´ve booked the trip via the Tarom webite, Tarom was the cheapest way when booking a ticket for the same day of departure. Even Ryan air/Wizz etc were at least 100€ more expensive as Tarom. At 14.00h I went to the library to print out the boardingpasses and quickly packed some luggages.
At 16.00h I went to the trainstatation and took the train to the airport Schiphol, in the train to the airport I've booked the hotel. At 20.00h we were flying to Romania! The plane was an older Boeing type, with lots of legroom and pluche seats (not like the modern airplanes).
After arriving at the airport the 23.45h bus to Piața Unirii just drove away... The next was at 0.30h. So we took a taxi.

There were some militaire parades, but I'm not a fan of the army, so we skipped that part for a good breakfast.
And we went to the Gara de Nord for some pictures.


At at the back of the train, the traindriver hung a red/with metal plate on the buffers to mark the end of the train. My question is why? A Desiro doesn't have a plate to mark the end of the train. Also the TFC train has red light signals?


Almost everytime I visit București I've seen this train, I think it's IR 1893 to Craiova with a part to Târgoviște?
The train schedule is almost the same for this train in București in years. Also 3x Desiro looks the same.










At +-13.15h I don't know where this train is going to.


I think this would be IR 1585 to Constanța.




IR 1773 to Galați.




R 5005 to Buzău. I needed to go to a toilet, and decided to go inside this train. The higher window of the toilet was gone, so the there was an open gap of +-50cm. When I first saw these modernised doubledeck trains in 2010 or something I found them really nice. But now 6 years laters, they are allreay outdated with missing windows and broken lights. How could this trains be so outdated in such a short period? The same goes up for the Citaros in your capital. They are exactly of the same age as the Citaro busses in Hoorn where I live. But yours look way more outworn nowadays.






Grădina Cișmigiu. my favorite place in your capital.


M4. Just before 2 guards showed up, to say: No pictures!


Târgul de Crăciun.




The lights were illuminated by the mayor at 19.10h. (instead of 18.00 which was announced at the brochure) We waited almost 2 hours for it. Brrr..   There were so many people at that moment, that there were serios problems at the entrances of the market. People crushed each other more or less and the security guards couldn't do anything against it, because they were crushed also... But it was nice to see the market and the music etc. And the atmosphere was good!

We were flying back to Amsterdam yesterday. The bus to the airport took 50 minutes for the route from Piața Victoriei to the airport due to the traffic congestion. At other times, it was 30 minutes in my memory. So we arrived very late at the airport   40 minutes for the take off of the plane.

I almost forgot something ask... Are there no "Mersul Trenurilor'' for sale at the stations at this moment?
I have one from 2012-2013 (the blue one) and asked at the station for a new one for 2017. But they don't understood me, even when I showed the picture of the old mersul 2013, they look like if I'm from another planet...

It was a really nice trip, and also the idea of waking up and do your normal things of daily routine, untill you deside to do something very unusual that day, was giving me an enormous cick and adrenaline...  


Nice to be in București again, and 2017 defenitely longer and also a train trip or more... Because I miss your trains and the whole atmosphere of travelling by train in your country.

Caspar a scris:

The higher window of the toilet was gone, so the there was an open gap of +-50cm. When I first saw these modernised trains in 2010 or something I found them really nice. But now 6 years laters, they are allreay outdated with missing windows and broken lights. How could this trains be so outdated in such a short period? The same goes up for the Citaros in your capital. They are exactly of the same age as the Citaro busses in Hoorn where I live. But yours look way more outworn nowadays.

Our Citaro buses are probably used above their capacity on a daily basis. The maintenance work is certainly not performed as it should be, I guess they replace only the parts that are important for safety. The same goes for the modernized carriages. Last but not least, the people they are transporting generally have several centuries of civilization less than the people in Holland The windows usually don't break by themselves.

Some nature in the city garden.


I've bought a new bike, although its second hand for 250€, it matches perfect to my wishes at this moment.


I have been cycling a bit in my regio on my new bike, and met with the daily museumtram to Medemblik today.


There was a second train today on the tracks several minutes later, without passengers.