Andrea Hearts Traveling

On monday I left the hostel mid day and went to the train station to catch a train to my next stop… Brasov!

The more I travel the more I open my eyes and notice things that I didn’t before. I think this journey had made me more aware of the way women are treated around the world.

Sitting in the train to Brasov from Bucharest I sat across two people reading the newspaper, both of the newspaper had barely dressed women on their cover and back cover (one was holding a horse’s rope in a bikini! Really?) and it just made me uncomfortable to see that women are being objectified and that as a society most people are totally ok with it. But that is not news, I just feel like this should be changing by now but it isn’t and its because of how we (women) are portrayed everywhere that we are still being harassed, disrespected, and blamed for actions from others upon ourselves.

While standing in line to get my train ticket I witnessed a guy, probably his late 20s, taking a picture of the girl in line in front of him and then texting it to a friend with a happy face, he then proceeded to look at the picture several times and then stare at the woman’s butt in front of him. I felt like I needed to say something but I don’t speak Romanian, I feel all the time that women are being disrespected and nobody is doing anything. The picture taking wasn’t the worst part, he then started looking at his pictures and there were hundreds of pictures of girls on his phone I couldn’t help but wonder: Who is raising these men? I know my mother raised us to be respectful, to respect men and women alike, my brother would never take a picture of a girl’s butt and text to his friends!

It’s really horrifying! Will this ever change? A better question… What can we do to make this change?!?!

The whole point of visiting Veliko Tarnovo last was because apparently it was easier to get to Romania from there but it turned out to be really tricky! I left my hostel at 10:30am and got to Bucharest at 7pm. I had to change 3 different trains and ended up spending more time waiting at stations than in the actual train, what takes 3 hours in car took me 8 and a half hours by train and this was a taste of what transportation would be like in Romania!

I got to Bucharest, checked into my hostel and was so tired that decided to stay in and relax and go out thenext day.

My favorite part of Bucharest weren't its buildings, or the museums, or its vibe, it was the one dulce the leche ice cream I had while walking Bucharest's old town! haha

My second favorite was sitting at a park bench and watching families in bicycles, dads pushing strollers, watching a grandma waiting for her family with a balloon, watching a girl learning how to roller skate falling down all the time but getting back up and trying again. It was the sound of birds chirping at the top of the trees, it was the light sound of an acoustic guitar far away, it was the feeling of freedom, the feeling that I could just sit there and do nothing other than taking it all in.

When I started my trip in Bulgaria I didn’t quite know where to go but the more I met other travelers the more I was recommended to go to Veliko Tarnovo, many of them saying it was their favorite city!

Well, the black sea is not black! haha

After the free walking tour I ended up talking to one of the girls that came on the tour with me,Yu Ting, and decided to go together to dinner. While having dinner she told me that there was a rose festival not too far from Plovdiv during the weekend and that she wanted to go. Of course I started googling stuff and soon enough we knew everything about the rose festival.

Brasov and beautiful Transylvania!!!!

Romania! First stop: Bucharest!

Veliko Tarnovo, the last stop in Bulgaria!

Checking out the black sea... Varna

Rose Festival!

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