What a trip!

I haven't blogged for a couple of days because we're staying at an apartment without Wi-fi. So I've got some catching up to do.

On Tuesday, a taxi picked us up at the conference centre at 6 a.m. We got our first train in Frydlant at 6:40, changed in Ostrava, changed in Prerov, got to Breclav and found out that our next train to Budapest would be about an hour late arriving. When we got to Budapest, we found that our train to Arad, Romania was apparently the only train in the whole of eastern Europe that left on time. We missed it by about 15 minutes.

Train stations in eastern Europe are interesting. You go to one office to get information and another office to buy your ticket. The people with the information don't sell tickets and the people who sell tickets don't know anything. We had to go back and forth between four different places to get a reservation on the next train, which fortunately was only a couple of hours later. We arrived in Arad at (I thought) 9:45. But we entered a different time zone, so it was really 10:45.

Scott and Paula Dunn were our contacts. They are from the Free Methodist Church in the US and have been working with a church in Arad for 3 years. Scott picked us up at the train station and took us to a really nice apartment that has been used by a number of different mission-related people. It's great to have our own place!

Scott and Paula have been fantastic, taking us all around Arad and some other places as well. Details to follow.