Chisinau Travel Blogs

We were expecting to wander around Chisinau today, the capital of Moldova. While an old city, founded in 1436, it is very modern, having been completely flattened in 1940-1941 with the invasion of the Red Army (28th June 1940), who were then defeated after a long siege by the Nazis (17th Jul…

Visiting Moldavia was an interesting experience for me, the country is in the proces of developing and lets hope it will bring up more interesting atractions in the future. The nicest experiences were while I visited some of the villages around Chisinau.

We arrived. I mean, we arrived. It’s another Minsk. Believe me, as the day wore on, there was nothing to do here. Really! Moldova’s main attraction is a very small Paris-like version of the Arc de Tromphie with a big white clock on top looking out at the important government building where Olli…

Oost-Europa Roadtrip

I finally procure a train ticket to Kishinev from someone who knows what they are doing.  On the train I meet a man who is traveling home to Kishinev.  He invites me over to meet his family.  One floor of his house is still under construction and he boasts that he's building it …

My boyfriend and I had the best (if extremely tiring) holiday ever travelling through Eastern Europe!

Pacefull land Customs does not really exist. It was just a soldier and two barriers. We passed without anyone to ask anything. So no one checked the passports or luggage. We stopped in a gas station to talk about what happened in Transnistria (former part of Romania). We were relieved th…

Moldova that's where I was going to head for. Why not, another country to cross off my list. Crossed the boarder with not too much trouble. and rode towards the capital, Chisinau. The road was well maintained, which surprised me. very quiet hardly any vehicles on the road, a bikers paradise.Arrived…