Visit to Cluj - time-limited edition

Post date: 2024-03-25 14:28:27

I am going to Cluj for a conference with my travel-averse boss. Neither of us speaks Romanian or has ever been to Romania before. I am not European and have many questions that are perhaps obvious to Europeans.

Hotel and flights are booked and we do not require input on this front (also I will probably have a panic attack if you provide any, so please please don't).

You perhaps know:

- what restaurants are good and what a reasonable price for a meal is

- what the climate is like (I'm aware it's spring, but also aware winter/late autumn/early spring in Eastern Europe is much much much colder than I'm used to)

- how tricky public transport is or isn't

- how much Romanian I will have to learn in the four weeks before we go (beyond the obvious 'good morning/afternoon/evening', 'I don't speak Romanian do you speak English', 'please/thank you/excuse me' and 'where is the bathroom')

-any interesting activities that can be done in the short hours between conference and sleep, with no car.

I am also interested to know whether the war in Ukraine is something I need to or should think about. This may sound naive, but I live on an island and the nearest country to me is further away than the Ukraine/Russia border is from Cluj. I have a very limited innate sense of how long distances over land 'work'.

Additional shocking naivety, please be kind - what, if any, are the differences in behavior and comportment expected of me flying business class (new experience, never done it before) as compared to economy class (have been doing more or less regularly since the age of 4)? I am not mature and experienced like most MeFites.

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