Going to the province

I'm sure you want to read some more about Moldova and you gonna get it today, although I will write about not the most exciting part of it :/ Balti! The second largest city of the republic (excluding Transnistria, then Tiraspol would be on second place). 
I had a chance to spend there a nice weekend, although that's not the city which caused my good mood about it. When the friend who invited me there, had tried to describe to me her life in the city, she didn't stop repeating a word "boring". And that's how it is indeed, not many places to go out, very few restaurants or cafes, no tourist places, just a small, provincional city. Or rather town. There are some nice things though, they have a lake and some nice parks and forests very close with perfect place to have a barbecue, what many, many Moldovans did that weekend. 

That is actually all I can say about this city, here are some pictures, they would speak better than me :) 

Market - meat section

Market

Old Lenin fabric with Lenin's pic ;)

Resting area at the lake

Old part of Jewish cementery

For the people who are convinced to go ;)  To get to Balti you have to take minibus from Chisinau, Gara de Nord, cost 65 lei. To get back I took the minibus from the center of Balti, it was the unofficial one - very often thing in "the east", they go pretty fast (mostly because of the drivers-suiciders) and cost 60 lei. Quite an exciting drive :D