Why would anyone want to drive for hours through flat soulless countryside, spend a night in one of Romania’s more ugly towns, then six hours on a small, open boat in the freezing cold wind, in order to have one dinner of fish, followed by sour fish soup, followed by fish, in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, and a night in a room so icy cold you can’t sleep, then back on the boat, and another night in the ugly town (and all for more Euros than you’d care to mention)??
Well, despite asking ourselves this question several times, we are extremely glad we spent two days visiting the Danube delta in Romania. If we hadn’t, we’d never have seen what an incredible landscape the delta forms. Nor would we have learnt how to make the unusual and delicious, traditional delta fish soup.
After four days of eating our way round Istanbul’s restaurants, markets and street stalls we had intended to fast for a few days.