My visit to Cluj was certainly a very brief, but very memorable one. I met up with an English guy (Dave from Devon) at the train station who was also on his way to Cluj. Spent 3 hours chatting on the train and once we arrived in Cluj sorted ourselves out with the first hotel we could find.

Cluj is a reasonable size city and 'famed' for its night life. Guess our timing was pretty good as we'd arrived on a Saturday.

Most of the afternoon was spent doing the aimless wander of the city - mainly looking for food. Romania in general appears to be a country of Fast Food options and Pizza restaurants. In this case, despite our best efforts we ended up in a Fast Food shop. The up side of the lunch venue (definately not the food!) was the recommendations from the girl working in the shop. It was quite simply - "If its Saturday night, you go to Diesel."

Never has better advice been given! For anyone who has seen the Carlsberg advert for the night club - THIS is the place!

To be honest neither of us had really planned to go clubbing, we'd simply gone to have a beer (read 'several') sitting outside at the pavement cafe. We were still dressed as we'd travelled up on the train - I was in shorts and walking boots and carrying a day pack. Hardly dressed for a night out. We sat and drank beer for a while and reasoned that we obviously couldn't go clubbing as we were dressed. Looking at the stream of glamourous entrants - surely there would be a dress code.

After a couple more beers and a continual stream of STUNNING women going into the club our tune changed a little. Eventually I asked the bar staff if there was a Dress Code - yes there was. However, the second best advice of the day was "give it a try though". This we did and somehow they let us in! The place was pretty busy AND 2/3 of the venue was stunning women! A large glass of JD and a view to die for - it really doesn't get any better.

Left Cluj with a hangover, but worth the pain. Also left with a sleeper train ticket (14 hours) down to the coast for the 24th Aug.

I'll be heading north towards the Ukrainian border for a few days before coming back to Cluj for the Black Sea bound train.