What did we do today? It went like this.........the 'plan' was to take two trains out to the monastery at
https://m.crestinortodox.ro/biserici-manastiri/manastirea-turnu-67824.html.
The first leg went great....newer train, met a charming Romanian lady who had spent around 30 years in the U.S. before returning to Romania.
Second leg, an older train, (no, wait, make that an OLDER train), which, when it arrived at the unmanned monastery station, stopped for maybe 30 seconds.......Deb managed to get off, into weeds by a wire fence, but I didn't......"Get off at the next station", she yelled.
Which I did......asked a Romanian woman, who spoke no English, the way, by road, to the monastery.......her response appeared to be "There's nothing BUT monasteries around here!".
So.....hit the road and tried hitching.......not a chance...truckers won't stop, and cars apparently wonder why some old fart is trying to grab a ride.
Saved by a young guy heading in the other direction who had stopped to take a leak. He was starting up a dairy business and kindly gave me a ride to the monastery station......was Deb there? Was she ****.
So......hiked up to the monastery.....no sign of her.....back to the road......and here she comes in a car with a monk!
She'd hooked up with the monk and was likely heading to the second station while I was coming the other way with the dairy farmer.
(Kinda like one of those stage productions where one character walks in through door 'A' just as another is walking out through door 'B'.)
Up to the monastery where they fed us and gave us a personal tour.........(and, yes, we did give them an (unsolicited) donation).....before driving us back to the station and ensuring we boarded.
People have often said that, if I fell in sh*t, I'd come up smelling like roses.
Exhibit 'A'.