Note:
(a) Tess and Tessa are English variants of Teresa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa
(b) "To arrive in Siret is to arrive at world's end. The train from Bucharest - clatter-boom, clatter-boom, through the night - goes only as far as Suceava. An historic city mauled by the communists."
(i) Siret http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siret
(a population of 7,721 inhabitants, according to the 2011 census; one of the oldest towns in Romania)
(ii) Suceava http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suceava
(c) "Now Catalin - with his own car hire firm and a canary yellow cap - waits for me at the station, ostentatiously dusting down his Vauxhall Astra."
Vauxhall Astra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Astra
(d) "The drive, hurtling between cabbages and corn, horses with their carts and a pink sky that crashes into the Moldavian plains, is a reminder of how far you have come from the dusty fug of Bucharest's Gara de Nord."
(i) Moldavia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia
(In 1859, Principality of Moldavia united with Wallachia as the basis of the modern Romanian state; section 1 Name and etymology)
(ii) Bucharest North railway station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest_North_railway_station
(Romanian: București Gara de Nord)