Travelling to Romania

Today I noticed a post about travelling to Romania which was giving good hints but some of the information was inexact or obsolete.

Here is my reply, I'm posting it also here hoping it might help someone thinking to travel to Romania:

While big part of the information is correct, some is old or inexact. While I won't comment about the information that is correct, I'll try to update the rest of the info.

"Buses are dead cheap and dead slow" - the mini-buses that one can use for travelling between towns are not that cheap anymore. They are slow in some parts of the country, due to the road conditions or heavy traffic. However, the drivers go quite fast, and many times is better to rely on the bus than train. Also trains in some areas simply don't exist anymore, due to economic reasons.

Trains in Romania are not travelling with the doors open. It might happen that someone jumps off the train while the train is still moving, or going very slow, but that's not a normal thing that you'll see while travelling by train.
Seat reservations are obligatory, but by seat reservation it means they make you pay the seat (and of course you'll be sure to have the seat sure), but you don't have to reserve/book the ticket in advance. 99.9% of the travellers just go to the railway station and buiy the ticket before the train leaves.

Horse-drawn cart are piled up with hay, especially in the fall, 'cause people having lands on the hills and bringing the hay home. However, I've never seen cows or pigs in a cart. Cows are sometimes used to pull the cart, while pigs...well, we carry them by car and some pigs drive very expensive cars.

Cycling in Romania is easy and nice in some area, but painful in other areas If you want to cycle, is better to buy a guided tour from a local operator, that is supposed to know the areas, the roads, the people.

Boat is the only way of getting around much of the Danube Delta if by boat you mean also a light boat like a canoe of kayak. While driving is not possible, a kayaking tour is the best way to explore hidden areas and observe birds (With over 325 species of birds, Danube Delta is a point of reference for worldwide birding passionates).