Moldova - 9th October 2016 - General Thread

Glad you got your treasured badged hat back PAL

Those hats/ scarfs/ jackets covered in badges are irreplaceable......which is the danger in wearing / bringing them .....I remember Bear 11 having a similar nightmare on his return to his hotel after game in Gdansk ..... his hat also covered in "metal memories" was left in a taxi......he was lucky as the driver found it and drove all the way back to his hotel to return it..,,,.a long way as Bear was moaning that the hotel Tash booked him was so far from Gdansk that it was actually in Holland !

ProudAndLoud wrote: Just want say a big thank you to RichardKeogh (Graham from Isle of Man) for getting my prized hat back from the Moldovan taximan. On way to match I fell asleep and left it on the ground in front of me. Some badges on that from early 80s and one from Brussels the night we robbed by Jan Cueleman and strange referee. I wont talk about referees too much seeing Im one of them. Anyway thanks Graham for being so honest and also to Scamper (Kieran from Tipp) for putting 2+2 together and contacting me on facebook. It shows how important a forum this can be as we all part of the same green n white family. Thanks Lads ybig forever LoudAndProud or as my flag says Loud And Proud. PS gonna drink outta my hat in Bratislava and Vienna so that way it should be safe.

Great to hear that you got your hat back
No amount of money would have replaced it

SuperDave84 wrote: the_walls wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: Hah, I was tempted by that night train but the direct flights were too tempting. I'll maybe do it the next time we draw them. Ended up drinking jaegerbombs in the old bus bar on Saturday night after about five hours sleep the night before.... wasn't clever and I don't really remember getting back to the hotel. Sunday was largely spent lying in bed until 4 in the afternoon with a hangover, hence missing the walking tour, which was a bit annoying. Went down to Transnistria on Monday which was grand having avoided doing it on Saturday because of the rain. Didn't have time to do the wine tour which actually sounds like it was decent. Anyway, if we draw them again, I'll definitely do a wine tour and probably a walking tour as well. Could definitely have done more when I was there. The craziest place I saw was the bizarre bar in the underpass between the Hotel Chisinau and the Beer House. There were always people in it too, generally dancing in the middle of the afternoon, or at 3am, or even at 10am, despite the fact it looked like easily the sketchiest place in all of Chisinau. Did ya go into that place? I wanted to go in but I wasn't brave enough  Hah, did I f**k! I didn't want to risk leaving minus a kidney, thanks all the same.

Borussia wrote: The White Cafu wrote: https://www.facebook.com/skybarandrestaurant/posts/861538050545109 Sky bar put up photos from the weekend, plenty of familiar faces in here There is some variation in standard in these photos ! I missed out by not going there on one of the nights - Did get a good video from Keitho from the place on Saturday night though !

The White Cafu wrote: https://www.facebook.com/skybarandrestaurant/posts/861538050545109 Sky bar put up photos from the weekend, plenty of familiar faces in here

cathalb96 wrote: If we ever get Moldova again I suggest flying to Bucharest and getting the 14 hour overnight train, solely for the experience.           6 of us got it and that in itself is a story to tell! The cabin was absolutely tiny with sweat pouring off it and the windows physically couldn't be opened. There was a bar on it selling Russian beer with a barman that had definitely had a few pints on the job, he was hammered! At one station he decided he'd had enough and just hopped off the train with our giving one of us the drink we paid for.      At around 5am when leaving the Romanian border an officer came into our cabin and asked if we had anything to declare (guns and drugs) and another lad checked our passports. They were grand but the same happened when we were entering the Moldovan border and your man checking the passports took no sh*t. One of our lads was asleep when he came in and it was impossible to wake him up and this big Moldovan officer was just shouting 'passport! Passport! At him like a robot. We thought he was going to hit him. He then disappeared with everybody's passports for a good 45 minutes to an hour. A very strange and long journey that was worth experiencing but I don't think I'd do it again!

PhilliyK wrote: As said by most, great trip and loved almost all of it (see near the end of the post for the bad part), can't beat eastern european spots for still being up drinking till 9am necking straight vodka's. Good start to the trip out all night in Dubin thursday night, wake up in Paris Beauvis when the plane landed , sit around for ages with the few from of here who done that route then decide to get into the security line 90mins before flight due to leave, 90mins later have a good old panic as still hadnt even got through security but Blue Air holding the flight for everyone a good sign. Lovely picturesque bus journey through the Romanian hills with a 24 pack and land in Chisinau around 8 I think it was, was rather disappointed with the border as was hoping could get up to some mischief on it.  First pub after the hotel we hit, walk down the stairs to be greeted by everyone stopping and looking at the 3 of us to see wtf walked in  stroll up to the bar and demand 3 vodkas so everything settled down but they immediately closed, few pubs later getting a taxi to draft bar to meet some moldovan lads and start getting paranoid the taxi man was taking us the wrong way so few arguments later he handbrakes the car round and back to town via instruction of some young one on the other end of the phone, actually went back out but had missed the lads. The saturday night trip after jacks in a taxi where nobody knew where we were actually wanted to go so he just drove us around for ages with the 5 of us crammed in singing the same 2 tunes much to his amusement. Best craic of the trip after the match sunday, drinking in draft with the Zimbru lads from the fans game and end up in a karaoke bar with them where we were greeted to the sight of about 7 local lads singing terrible songs all wearing pink bunny ears   ended up getting the blur/oasis/irish songs blasting  Had great craic with all of the locals all trip bar one wee fuk who lifted Drog Addicts fleg - 3 of us walking along fleg under my arm and the fkr grabbed it from behind, after a short struggle did give chase but I'll let Daboi best describe how that went           Other highlights- Dacia supporting taxi men randomly stopping the car to fuk of Zimbru for no good reason Cheap vodka   (to be drunk straight) Hoskins after the fans game haha The Zimbru lads - all great craic and have a great stadium Great craic at the game itself Oh and a side note, was I the only eejit in the skybar paying for everything on his visa debit?

I had money on my sky card but I was too locked to even remember that I had it and paid for everything by cash!

As said by most, great trip and loved almost all of it (see near the end of the post for the bad part), can't beat eastern european spots for still being up drinking till 9am necking straight vodka's. Good start to the trip out all night in Dubin thursday night, wake up in Paris Beauvis when the plane landed , sit around for ages with the few from of here who done that route then decide to get into the security line 90mins before flight due to leave, 90mins later have a good old panic as still hadnt even got through security but Blue Air holding the flight for everyone a good sign. Lovely picturesque bus journey through the Romanian hills with a 24 pack and land in Chisinau around 8 I think it was, was rather disappointed with the border as was hoping could get up to some mischief on it.