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Soroca (Moldova)

Description: Soroca, Moldova, is situated on the Dniester River about 160 km north of Chisinau.

Newest Review: ... taxi on our arrival at Soroca and asked to be taken to Hotel Victoria. It was a large place, almost entirely hidden by trees and right on the river, close to the border crossing with Ukraine. The grounds were teeming with noisy school children but inside there was complete silence. The foyer was enormous but the reception desk was deserted. In the corner was a kiosk, I peered through the ... more

... window to see a sumptuous display of two Coke bottles and some crisps. Suddenly a sturdy-looking lady wearing a white doctors' coat appeared as if from nowhere. I asked her if she spoke English and she beckoned me to follow her. Himself waited with the ...more

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Soroca (Moldova): Surreal Soroca (1170 words)
by - written on 06/08/08 (Very useful, 150 readings)
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Travelling around the Black Sea in 2006 we kept spotting posters for a band called 'The Snails'; we had no idea who they were but we saw the posters so often they attained a mythological status for us. We tried to remember - but failed - to Google them the next time we were in an internet cafe and then in Soroca in northern Moldova we saw another poster for The Snails. By pure chance we had happened to arrive in this one horse town on the very same day as the Snails. Using a combination of dire Romanian, mediocre Russian and unrolling the poster we had taken from the notice board in the 'town centre' we somehow managed to find the town's community centre - where the ... Read the complete review

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