Ambassador Bucharest

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'Where are you from?' Asks the Romanian school girl pulling out yet another cigarette.<br><br>'Germany' reply Maria and Charlotte.<br><br>'England' I add with little conviction.<br><br> The time for idol chat was three hours ago and now the three of us just wanted to hit the sack, but the Romanian students seemed oblivious to this and crowed round us with intense curiosity. Talking to them was well worth it though, they spoke at length about life and ...

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... people were evicted or removed from there homes and when they left they often left behind their dogs. Estimates peg the stray dog population in Bucharest somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000. That's a lot of stray dogs, or community dogs is the new politically correct term. You do see them around but what surprised me more was the amount of stray dogs elsewhere in Romania. Even in little towns and villages there were stray dogs, usually hanging around the train ...

... going to cope sitting there on my own every night with no one to talk to, no tv, no radio, no alcohol. And i was SO thankful for my birthday present from Mark which is a portable DVD player. At least i'll have something to watch at night. Chris was coming to pick me up this mornign at 10am. I woke up at around 6. I had 4 hours to kill. I figured id get up and go for a walk around the place, but found that it was pouring with rain. So i read for a bit, opened my other pressie and ...

... precariously from buildings, telegraph poles! But the heat was well over 40C and so I returned to my Hotel room where the news was full of 2 things - the heatwave (it was 41C) and the floods in the UK. Surreal! I'd agreed with Karin that she'd meet me at 8.30 at my Hotel, so was surprised when she turned up with her backpack. It turned out that there had been nobody in the Hostel when she'd arrived in the morning, so she'd left her bags and gone off sightseeing only to ...

Romania - in search of Dracula With our plane leaving at 5pm, I took a half day off work to be at the airport by 3, which was glorious, I started at the back of the office and worked my way to the front saying good bye to everyone on the way, which was a bit cheeky of me! Off to Heathrow again and after a complete mare on the tubes and instead of arriving in the 2 hours before hand and even 3 hours with the new security we arrived together, (as we both were waiting ...

... We drop our luggage in our rooms and head out to find water. A nearby 24-hour quick stop has a huge bottle of water. She tells me it costs 22. I just about pass out, as I figure that is close to $10 at 2.9 Romanian lei to the US dollar. She sees my horror and shakes her head. She gives me change for my 50 lei that adds up to 47.80, so when she said 22, she meant 2.2 - or just under $1. I think dealing with money here might be interesting, and I'll be holding up lines as I ...

... oh! We were expecting the worst so were pleasantly surprised when it wasn't too bad. It was 3 people per room and the showers were warm - even if you splashed water EVERYWHERE because the curtain was seriously dodgy. I had the first shower and just used my towel to mop up after myself. Megan went next and added her towel to the pile and lastly it was Joss. Easy! There was lots of confusion with the Romanian money. There's old style stuff which says ...

it is sunday night here at 9:30pm....they have pay per view movies that cost 14 euro, but you get a free preview of 3 minutes...so i've been watching jaws, alfie, ray, love story and the terminal in 3 minute chunks...its amazing how many times i can time it to watch the same 3 minutes so thursday i had a day off. i slept in, and got going around11am....i walked down to the revoluccion blvd intersection where my guide book says the revolution in 1989 started. at the former communist ...