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Catalin

Age:

Gender:

Male

If you must know:

It's none of your business ;-)

Travel status:

Putting down roots

Hometown:

Bucharest

Currently in:

Bucharest

Traveling Next:

Scandinavia

Favorite places I've been:

Have seen everything there is to see in Romania. Have traveled around Spain, Portugal and Italy and passed through evetyhing in between.

Places I want to go to:

Alaska, Patagonia, Egypt and the middle east, Australia

About me:

19yrs old, typical ski bum.. freelance on weekdays, skiing in the weekends. Im also a student at the Geography Faculty, University of Bucharest.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/catalin

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I'm fired up on:

skiing, rock climbing, mountainbiking, traveling, hiking, backpacking, enviormental issues, photography

Tunes I rock out to:

pink floyd, led zeppelin, lynyrd skynyrd, thin lizzy, smashing pumpkins, pearl jam, bob dylan, neil young, john frusciante, the cure, the clash, joy division, modest mouse, radiohead, at the drive in ...

Quote:

"He not busy being born is busy dying"

"Be something you love and understand"

"Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire"

Sports I do:

skiing, rock climbing, mountainbiking

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

People with a camera and a backpack(guitar is optional), and Bob Dylan :-)

Languages spoken, other than English:

Romanian, a bit Spanish

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

Navodari or Vama Veche in Romania

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

Marina Park camping at Vama Veche

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by Akmonki | 2008/03/09

Ohh, right. Surfing Matador all day long for school research?
I apologize for thinking O-Zone was from Romania, I guess everyone back home always called it "that Romanian techno song," but now I'll be able to spread the truth that it's actually Moldovian.
Hm, so where else around Europe have you traveled that you would recommend for a really cheap-broke traveler?

by Akmonki | 2008/03/09

Haha, I think we've both been on the internet for way too much time today.
But anyhow, a green rock concert on a beach sounds like a great time. I'm embarrassed to say that all I know of Romania is that you can ski there and the cheesy Romanian techno band: O-Zone.
I'm kind of looking for a next destination after Spain since my passport expires in about a month. Spain is an interesting place and speaks a familiar language, but I haven't quite been able to find a place where I fit in well here. ...although San Sebastian sounds neat.
So are you a student then? What do you study? Because your english is quite good.

by Catalin | 2008/03/09

O-Zone was actualy a band from Moldova :). I spent all the weekend on the net looking for resources for my school project. I study geography, its in my profile.
if your from the US i think you can travel without visa in Romania. call at the embassy cos im uncertain.

by Akmonki | 2008/03/09

WWOOF= World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. They have thousands of location around the world, so I think I could keep doing that just about anywhere.
But Romania could be fun too. I think I could clean beaches for a summer. But would a NGO be willing to "hire" a foreigner? Because that seems to be a big problem here; nobody wants to hire me since I don't have the "official working papers"...
What else is there to do in Romania? Any surfable beaches?

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by Catalin | 2008/03/09

surfing is one of the things that are on my TO DO BEFORE IF DIE list since i was about 10. when i was 11 some exchange students stayed at my cousins place, they were from sweden somewhere and they brought their surf boards.. but unfortunately the Black Sea doest have ocean tide so you cant surf. some dudes do kiteboarding and windsurf.
yes, you can do work for the NGO if you are a foreigner.. besides volunteering i think you could be waitress or in the kitchen, or clean up guest rooms at hostels. a lot of people come from Germany, Britain.. even Spain and spend the summer here. some places here resemble to the surfer town from Ecuador, i think(if i got the right picture about Montañita). i mean.... tents, hippies, rockers, natty dreads, dancing and getting wasted on the beach. by the end of the summer theres a festival called Stufstock, the mioritic version of Woodstock(has the same causes: preservation of the free spirit, etc etc)... anyway they offer volunteer work but i dont know exactly the commodities they reserve for volunteers.
if you put aside the political party, NATO and Russia`s influences on our Goverment decisions Romania is a really great country despite whatever you see on tv, ... great plains, great mountains, great cities and a lot of culture that many travelers blended in and named it their home.

PS: heres the link to the Stufstock festival http://www.stufstock.com/?section=music
and excuse my spelling

by Akmonki | 2008/03/09

You've never surfed before?--you have to try it someday. The main reason I know about San Sebastian is because I heard it was the only place to surf in Spain.
I am actually planning to go live on a farm/ranch next week. Do you know about the WWOOF organization? It's my first time doing it, but it sounds like fun to live and work on an organic farm. I'm looking forward to the simplistic lifestyle for a month maybe.

by Catalin | 2008/03/09

i dont know any WWOOF, but i know this you can find volunteer work in the summer time in Romania such as cleaning the beaches and the Danube Delta. they give you some shelter and money just enough to survive... and get booze lol. i know people who lived like this up to three months by the seaside. the volunteering is offered by NGO`s.

by Akmonki | 2008/03/09

Maybe you've already seen, but that foto of mine is along the coast of Ecuador in a small surfer town called Montañita. (highly recommended)
So have you spent some time in San Sebastian? I considered checking it out, but figured that it's probably pretty cold at this time of the year. Plus, it seems quite expensive as well??

by Tim Patterson | 2008/03/08

Yeah, welcome aboard! You've got great taste in music - when I was 19 I was still listening to crappy pop-punk rock.

by David Miller | 2008/03/08

Thanks for the stoke on San Sebastian. Not sure when the family and I can make it there, but it's on the radar screen.

So, welcome to Matador: it's great having you in the community. What's life like in Bucharest? Blog about it, if you have a chance.

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