Author: Bjørn Heidenstrøm

And it did.. And we should not have asked, now we have no fog, but strong head wind… From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

Costin, TID Romania, have joined in to help and guide. Im getting closer to the Delta and the Black Sea. Im getting tired… So how is it to get the local Delta and Dunare knowledge on my right flank… Its like having Mike Tyson helping you in a fight, like Victoria Beckham helping you shoping, like Bill Clinton telling you have to really enjoy a cigar. Its like a cold beer in a desert.

Thanks Costin! And most of all his wife for letting him go to help… Rule Romania, Romania rules the Dunare… From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

Ingar, super mate behind that logo. ” Kraft” is power in Norwegian. Guess you know “team”, and that is take more then one to make things happen. Try the Teamkraft link after you visited rodekors.no #redcross #rodekorsnorge on Twitter. From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

So, im 1 km up that stream. Going down to Dunare tomorrow and I guess Ill meet mates tomorrow.. 😉 Costin, TID Romania, youll hear a lot about him.

From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

50 km today… I spot fishermen with boat. I love fishermen. They now this river.They dont know English. Bed ? Zimmer ? Pensione? Yes, up that river that hits Donau. I dont like upstream, Iv done that from Mainz to Bamberg, Im not doing upstream. Go in Barka, ship.

So I enter their ship.Two sec, one beer, ten sec a salami, a grilled fish, a bread, and my ship is on a rope on their,a bit bigger ship.Im going upstream on a sidearm of Donau and they lead me to a bed and friends of friends. Thanks to Sanko Sankov and his mates. Im safe 😉

From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

I think, its time to wash my clothes and shave my pretty face. . Ca 650 km to the Black Sea, and Ill do some pimp my face and polish my style. 😉 Bjorn, Bulgaria, Romania on other side of Dunare, Donau, its not a river its a floating ocean… From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

Marianne my lady. She hate Donau, paddling, cycling to Africa and when Im away. Last evening she said “I love you”. I will finish this trip and return. Ill triple return those words… – thats if my neighbour mate Erik has not moved in. 😉 . She is “hel sexy ved”. Find a Norwegian, learn this new saying 😉

She`s a farmer lady, have handcuffs, but has never showed them to me ;-( From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

My daughter, princess Elisabeth. She will never never be as good looking as her father, but she will be smarter. She is “hel ved”. Find a Norwegian, learn the saying 😉 The reason of white painting on her head is the intellectual ceremony in Norway, where the students go bananas for days before the final test in school. Norwegians can have strange traditions… This is like going for a rave party the day before you play the finale in Champions League. 😉

From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

My prince, the next king, Ernst Jostein. He will never never never be as good looking as his father, but he will be smarter. 😉 He is “hel ved”. Find a Norwegian, learn the saying 😉

From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉

So, the boarder police helped me out from a bay yesterday. The weather was nasty for paddling. So the finest uniforms drove me 3 km straight in to the country. Woke up, was a bit not in the mood for carry pack and board, asked if anyone new anyone with a car. I will pay. Of course. The men turn up. Car is big. They are smiling. I ask “how much?” The answer is a lot of words I dont understand, and the pointing… Means; get your ass in the car, lets find Donau… In the car, with three Romanian men, on the farmland I think back to other countries where I have not made the deal before the driving… The next thought is with full name, I speak with myself ; “Bjorn Olav Heidenstrom you fu#%£€ stupid fu$£€%£ Norwegian and complete idiot – this will be an fu€£$¿¢ expensive drive”

Beatufull countryside. Farmerland. And there is my Donau who Im borrowing of this men and country. I jump of and I want the hard deal to be over and asks how much ?????

“Nothing” he say. I show my Euro and my ask the two others.

“Nothing” they say.

I insist…. “You go Dunare barka we look” they say.

So you have been reading old stories about Romania? So you judge the book by its cover?

Me too. To often…

Super help and a friendly hand cost nothing in Romania?

Dunare is Donau. Barka is boat.The language is latin. A friend is every where if you look.

From my Nokia. Im @heidenstrom on Twitter and @Rhine @Main or @Donau 😉