After yesterday’s laborious day we excused ourselves for waking up late. To this effect we had to sacrifice most of our lousy breakfast with cold coffee, stale bread and no cereal. I nicked a fork instead to compensate for the price difference (I forgot my cutlery at home).

We arrived at the bus station near the train station by taxi, and caught the only bus for Brasov departing at 10:00. We must thank the train station personnel for this important piece of information. The trip lasted 4.30 hours and despite the beautiful scenery outside transport was getting quite tedious. The bus route passed through Bran and we regretted not stopping there, since time was pressing and therefore we couldn't visit Bran.

To make up for it I changed plans on the hotel accommodation after reading that the Aro Sport hotel in Brasov was miserable. This change cost me 60Euros because the next cheapest hotel in LP was Hotel Postavarul who had cheap shared bath rooms and 2 star rooms at 60 Euros (Hotel Coroana). After the public toilet experience and considering the state of affairs between us at the moment I made the right choice by getting a better room and spending some more. We had a choice between two rooms and we choose the bigger one with a two single beds, cable TV and en-suite bathroom. This definitely helped to change our sour mood.

The hotel was at the corner of the main pedestrian street in Brasov, "Strada Republicii". This street is lined with shops on both sides and leads to the large Black Church. I managed to get my dearest a present (two eagles engraved in wood) and card for her birthday. The Black Church was quite disappointing. First of all it is not black, just a sooty ashen colour resulting form a fire in 1689. Apart from being quite imposing it isn’t anything extraordinary. Since it was disallowed to photograph inside the church we didn’t bother to enter. The church location is also extremely non-photogenic. A lesser known and blacker attraction was the "Black Tower", and the "White Tower". Although not as imposing as the Black Church both towers offer excellent locations to photograph the Black Church.

Black Church

After the cultural tour we watched a comedy featuring Rob Schneider and then went for a pizza in the centre of Brasov. As the food was so cheap I dared a beef steak and Cabaret Sauvignon Blanc while she ordered a Funghi. Surprisingly enough the Funghi pizza also had ham so she had to remove each and every piece of ham from each slice. I then overdosed on ham to make up for the small beef portion.