Friday, July 27, 2007

The Danube Delta



As I announced in the previous post, the past weekend we took a trip to the Danube Delta (Synygy's team building, again). We have never been there before (shame on us, a natural monument in our country and we waited more than 20 years to visit it) so it was a nice experience and a lot of new and fine places to see. Since I was refrained from taking the laptop with me (it's a vacation!!!) I only had the 512MB on the card for pictures. I also realized that my camera is pretty lame: 3x optical zoom is not enough to capture the details of the wonderful nature and it can not take pictures when the sun goes straight at it (it produced some completely white images).

We left Iasi at about 8 o'clock in the morning, had an 8 hour trip until Murighiol

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then took the boat to Uzlina



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where some of us visited the pool first, even against their will



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We checked in on "Cristofor, the floating hotel"



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had our fish-based dinner (actually, we ate fish the whole 3 days)



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and then ended the first day with a nice sleep.

The next day we took a trip on the canals with the boat and saw some wonderful places (seeing the clear blue sky from land to land -- as opposed to "from building to building" -- always makes me feel good):



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This whole days, team-building polo was everybody's favourite activity:



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In the night, we also did some classic team-building treasure-hunt game



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which eventually required a swimming contest to decide the winner (my team lost)



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The next day we left Uzlina and returned to Iasi with a new 8 hours trip



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In the mean time (this week) I became a proud M.Sc. student in Distributed Systems at FCS (classes starting in october).

This weekend, thanks to a great idea from Cati, we are going to Sighisoara, at the medieval festival (actually leaving in a couple of hours so I must hurry). I'll be back with pictures, as usual.

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