Hello Aberdonians - as a fellow Scot, living in Bucharest. I’d like to share what information I can - which I hope may be of use, and indeed make for a smooth and enjoyable trip!

If anyone has any questions, about anything related to the City, FCSB, transport, nightlife, do’s and dont’s etc - please feel free to ask.

Airport Arrival/Transport in City:

There are 2 main options. Cheapest -Train directly outside arrival terminal to Gara De Nord (main train station in the city - and metro is linked from their too) Train is not as frequent (every 40 mins) but only 20 mins to Gara De Nord station and around 6 Ron (like £1.50)

Taxi - as soon as you exit the arrivals doors from getting luggage - on the left are ticket machines to get a Taxi number (all machines in English) and then you wait outside the terminal doors (a matter of yards away) and wait for your taxi number to arrive (registration of car is printed on your ticket) These are the AUTHORISED taxi companies and all on a meter (roughly 50/60 Ron (£10/15 to city centre) - DO NOT pay anything more than roughly that - if they ask for a lot more - make a fuss! But less likely if you take a registered taxi!

UBER/BOLT - possible, but not allowed to pick up outside terminal - so need to walk to pick up area outside of airport.

METRO SYSTEM:

It’s a good one! Cheap, reliable and frequent. Best way for getting around the city as traffic is busy in the daytime.

Tickets can be bought in all stations and as it’s so cheap - good option is to buy a ‘multi trip’ ticket for around (20 Ron) £5 and gets you 10 trips. 

NEAREST METRO Stations to Ground (walking distance)

Piata Iancului 

Piata Muncii 

Accommodation

Booking.com/Air BnB etc all available. 

In my eyes - two options (City Centre) nearest to Old Town - most expensive. Change metro line from Blue to Yellow 

Or slightly out of main centre but on best link to Ground via metro or taxi, plus near main Train Station (sector 1) - Options directly out of station are Ibis Gara De Nord and Hello Hotel (both main chains and you know what you’re going to get) - simple stuff!  Metro to the ground from this area is around 10 mins) (on yellow line)

Old Town or (Lipscani) Romanian name for area - is the busiest and most lively - but comes with highest prices and scammers etc! Good honest bar which is British owned is called Mojo - sport on TV, karaoke etc.

https://mojomusic.ro/

Option nearest the Train Station is arguably one of the best traditional Pubs in Bucharest - Dubliner Irish Pub. It’s the closest you’ll get to back home, quite a large ex-pat community of Scots too! A few Aberdonian’s working in the oil industry here. Multiple TV screens for sport - bespoke darts room (9 boards) great Irish Breakfast and pub food (cottage pie) Guinness, Kilkenny, Peroni, Ursus and Kozel on draught and then all the other usual spirits, shots etc. 

https://dubliner.ro/menu/

Piata Victoriei and Gara De Nord nearest metro stations to Dubliner Irish Pub and 10 mins to ground.

There’s a lot more could add - but this is for starters - please feel free to ask anything you want! 
 

Enjoy your trip and hopefully you’ll be going into it with a nice first leg lead!

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Jute said:

You mean some of them are sober and actually have notes?

I assumed they were all pished or sniffing glue. 

Liam McLeod is definitely coked off his tits during commentary.

26 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Liam McLeod is definitely coked off his tits during commentary.

A good Dons man is Liam. One of our own.

Game day! Looking forward to having my home office set up for the game 😎🔴⚪️

Went on walking tour this morning and the guide, spotting the Dons badge, said, "I hope you thrash those motherfuckers"...was impressed with his command of English (he's a Rapid fan, FCSB being the commie team).

2 hours ago, dons8321 said:

Went on walking tour this morning and the guide, spotting the Dons badge, said, "I hope you thrash those motherfuckers"...was impressed with his command of English (he's a Rapid fan, FCSB being the commie team).

Enjoy the trip

COYR 

 

Jensen on the left will be interesting, but at the moment I like it.

7 minutes ago, Panda said:

 

Jensen on the left will be interesting, but at the moment I like it.

How do you know it’s not Devlin on the left? He’s a better left back than Jensen. 
 

Decent line up but we need Clarkson in there somewhere. 

surprised Morris not even on the bench,looking more likely to be away this window.....

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15 minutes ago, Kowalski said:

How do you know it’s not Devlin on the left? He’s a better left back than Jensen. 

He might be, but that's from the uefa website and bizarrely you have to give UEFA your correct formation for the teamsheet.

14 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

surprised Morris not even on the bench,looking more likely to be away this window.....

He's not in squad because he's been distracted by a bid late last night.

Thelin will have more on BBC Scotland's excellent coverage later, from 19:15 BST.

Aye that's a gutter. Easily our best attacking option. Could we not sell topi instead?

 Fucking mitov cost us a yellow card there. 

Very even game but we need to be a bit more streetwise. These bookings are all avoidable. They foul and no yellow, team should have been prepped for this. 

Also, Milne playing well 👏 

Fuck off. Never a pen and never a booking. 

Was that a second yellow or straight red? 

 

If second yellow mitov is equally responsible.

Absolutely shocking. Var can go fuck itself yet again. Any obvious foul there?? Double fucked.

Whatever way you look at it Jensen has cost us this tie over two legs. Two goals directly attributable to his mistakes. 

Terrible, terrible decision but we were asking for that being so slack with the ball over the preceding 5-10 minutes.

Jensen allowed himself to be out in that position. Goalside ffs, it’s basic. Its a tall order now, not sure how we score.

Mitov again. Fucking liability

The saves aren't worth the mistakes

28 minutes ago, redordead said:

Mitov again. Fucking liability

The saves aren't worth the mistakes

Aye they are. Two of them in particular from four games ago 😍

This game sums up where we're at and why, truthfully, FCSB are doing us a bit of a favour here.

We've had good moments, were the better team for 35 minutes, and signs are that we're going in the right direction.

But we're not clinical, throw away goals too easily, and we're not good enough for the Europa League. As glamorous as it would be, some of the teams in there would have pulled our pants down.

That said, 3-0 harsh on us. 

You're right, were not at that level. At this point we're not really at any level. 

Nothing makes me think we'll score goals this season. We're soft and throw away goals. 

Good chance the FCSB owner is a nonce. 

It’s frustrating as while I don’t think FCSB are a bad team they looked like a team struggling for confidence and we weren’t able to capitalise. I hope that it’s just the amount of turnover in the squad and little time to get familiar that is leading to our impotence up front and mistakes at the back. We have three games at Pittodrie coming up in the next few weeks with the international break sandwiched in between. Falkirk Livingston, Motherwell all games of which we should be looking to win. Hopefully we can look to get up and running and build some momentum.