Country Info
- Bucharest
- Capital
- Leu (ROL)
- Currency
- 22,364,022
- Population
- RO
- Country Code
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Bucharest
Travel Blogs from Bucharest, Romania
Goodbye good toilets
Spent the last 3 days driving and bush camping......that means no toilet. We dıg a hole in the ground and put a shower tent over it! Also started cooking on a fire now as opposed to gas. Went to Vlad the Impaler's Castle ın ...
Paris or Moscow?
... the number of people getting on and off and leaving, there's no feeling aceleration. It's a rather lethargic experience, actually. Bucharest's Prague Factor: If you just read my entry, you can probably guess that I didn't particularly like Bucharest. ...
Staff Room Gossip
... I had a rather disaterous evening involving a slip, a big puddle and a broken umbrella, then I proceded to get lost in Bucharest without money or phone credit. Completely stranded, I managed to find a nice English speaking woman who helped me find my way ...
A Day in Bucharest
Arrived in Bucharest on the overnight train with plans to spend only a few hours walking around the city. So many people have said that it's a bust I didn't want to stay. On to Brasov and the ...
Bucharest
... reading our pocket guide to Romania for the first time. This is what it had to say about Bucharest: "...until Brasov - in so many ways the centre of Romania - gets itself an international airport, it is almost certain that you'll arrive in Bucharest. ...
Bucharest, capital of Romania
... the side walk, in the streets and on buildings to remember those lost in the terror. That sums it up for Bucharest... RANDOM 100,000 stray dogs are estimated to roam the streets in Bucharest. This is from the demolition of the ...
Suffering under the heat wave
... and I was expecting it to be at 9! I had booked a night at a hostel out in the old, green suburbs east of central Bucharest, so I headed straight there after getting off near the Gara de Nord. While the surrounds were pretty and historic, I knew I was in ...
Finding Communism
... tried to hand her 2 lie (about .80 cents) but she wouldn't take it. She told me to tell more people to come to Romania. Bucharest is not an attractive city. It's a soviet nightmare. There is garbage on the ground, the buildings are crumbling, and it's ...
Viva Romania!
... no one I knew had gone before. Put those together and you get a country with the Primary colors for a flag. Bucharest is a confounding mix of architecture. Imagine taking the chateau style classical buildings of France, mixing it with a bunch of ...
Driving tour of city.
Arrived in the capital mid afternoon, did a driving tour of the city and then went to ...
Romancing Romania
... capitalism of Bucharest and the sickening opulence of Ceauseceu's megalomaniacal palace and you have a good idea of where Romania is at. Bucharest was a fascinating maze of marble structures, wooden gantries and Western nightclubs. But I think Sibiu, ...
The Cold Heart
... to spend Christmas somewhere on the Orthodox calendar (who have Christmas in January), we actually spent our Christmas Day in Bucharest. Having executed their leader on Christmas Day 18 years ago, we figured its a place that doesn't shutdown for ...
Bucharest
... breakfast and talking to Roxy's parents we went sight seeing. We went and saw the Romanian Parliament House in Bucharest that was entirely built from Romanian materials and by Romanian people (about 20000). The building is very impressive ...
Shopping in town
We had the morning free in the city, there was not much to see, so most of the girls and I went ...
First impressions of Bucharest
... the city which was much easier in the heat without the extra weight on our backs. There are so many beautiful buildings in Bucharest and flowers are everywhere. Not only are they sold on every street corner in bouquets, but they also line the streets and ...
Bucharest what a let down
... you turn - very popular (must be cheap cos they're bloody ugly cars!) It is a world of difference though from the capital, Bucharest, to Bran, and other places we drove through on the way, as to be honest you wouldn't have a clue what country you were in ...
Bucharest
With a few limited exceptions, our experience in Bucharest was uniquely negative. From drunk gypsies trying to pick-off cash at the train station ticket window to the strong feeling of imminent mugging on the street at night to ATMs all saying "Are ...
ONly one night in Romania
Since my flights were delayed coming out of Providence and Wash Dulles, I was delayed getting to Bucharest until my second to last night there. So the one night in the city we spent eating at some great restaurants in the old city and exploring the ...
Rumination No. 3 - On Length of Trip
... I can recover on the plane and at home. Instead, I am doing laundry in the washing machine in my apartment in Bucharest, Romania. I don't really need to do laundry yet because I have a really big bag and I packed almost entirely light clothes ...
Day 9-12 Romanian Bush Camping and Bucharest
... original owners, who then opened it to the public. Back on the bus and we finally arrived at our campsite just outside Bucharest. Day 12 Bucarest has a reputation of stray dogs and thieves, with the only desirable tourist attraction, the palace. The bus ...
Romania
... pre-1989 years is the 2nd biggest building in the world (after the Pentagon) and stands on the rubble of one-sixth of Bucharest which was bulldozed to make room for this wacko's dream. There are more tasteful palaces in Romania and none more so then ...
Getting started...
... dedicated to the preparation before launching. As a matter of fact, Rocquette has been undergoing complete restoration for 2.5 years in Bucharest, Romania. She was then trucked to Constanta and launched there. The first 3 pictures are not from the trip, ...
July 30
July 1 (Val) Upon arriving in Bucharest, Rob and I walked to a nearby hostel to check it out. It ended up just an address of an apartment (like a bed and breakfast) and we didn't feel comfortable . Back at the train station, as we were discussing what ...
Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest, Romania is a pit - at least visually. Decrepit, Soviet-Era apartment buildings, with laundry strung outside, and ugly "plazas." It also has an estimated 100,000 stray dogs running the streets, which bit 6,700 people last year, and killed a ...
Bucharest
May 2 - 3, 2006 (Bucharest, Romania) This the first time I've been disappointed. Bucharest is a stunningly ugly city. The only "attraction" worth visiting is the Palace of Parliament, a monstrous building - in every sense of the word - built to satisfy ...
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
... We did have a wonderful meal at a Spanish restaurant, though, where I could actually speak a language I fully understood. I won't say Bucharest is without certain charms, but I might say the Spanish restaurant is the memory I will keep with me the ...