central & eastern europe 12

While we were sleeping our great hungarian driver Gabor took care of
the bus.
With a 2 hour delay we left Timisoara to go straight to Sibiu. We
have been warned before that it would be a long and bumpy trip
eventhough it is only 300km.
To be honest we all didn´t think that it would take us over 7 hours
to get to Sibiu. Sometimes there wasn´t even a real road and most of
the time only one lane was open so that we had to wait and wait and
wait. We did get to see a lot of landscape though and in the end even
snow covered mountains. We also drove through very authentic romanian
villages, industrial areas and beautiful nature while listening to
great romanian folk music.
When we reached the venue in Sibiu, the theatre GONG it was passed
6pm and a lot of press and other people were anxiously waiting for
us. We set up as fast as possible, did the shortest soundcheck ever,
gave a few interviews and then the show started at 7.30pm sharp.
The theatre was packed - Sophie from the Bosch institut in Sibiu has
done a great job promoting the event. Eventhough we practically
played without soundcheck and lightcheck it turned out to be a great
show. Everyone was happy and after over 1 hour of playing it was
definitely time for a drink.
We packed our stuff and went to the hotel to unpack the bus and then
we were invited to a very classy restaurant with original romanian food.
We said our good byes to our driver - THANK YOU very much Gabor - and
then went to bed to sleep a long and deep sleep.

The pictures are impressions from the road, the venue in Timisoara
and Timisoara by night - Sibiu follows soon.