Best Western Parc Hotel Bucharest

The story begins on a rainy April afternoon...

And since then, everything revolves around this dusty town.

Welcome to the balkans! (please read all)



They say "Romania, land of choice", we say " Romania - Land of jokes"

OR should it be: "Come to Romania, your car is already here!" ?



Enough with this mean comments!

I'm going to set things right, since that guy from "No ...

... 74. hmmmm. Not that I am complaining about being warm but I do hope to be able to use my long underwear sometime before I get to Qatar and on to the South Pacific. Oh right, be careful what you wish for, yes? It will probably snow on me now somewhere in Uzbekistan or Unkraine.

... in the centre of the massive roundabouts on the main streets.

We checked out some of the more impressive buildings including a palace that is now a bank and other palaces that are museums. We also passed by a few churches, the university and the theatre.

We headed back to our hotel by foot again through a large park with lots of fountains. We both have found Bucharest to be pretty fabulous!

... or 2. Good decision, the rooftop bar above the national gallery was huge and lots of young people were hanging out there drinking beer and we happily stayed for a few drinks with stellio, an English guy and three frenchies. After we went for a walk through the town and found it to be a reasonably nice city. We walked down to the parliament buiding which is the 2nd biggest building in the world after the pentagon (unsure of the criteria) and ...

... a night train to Târgu Mures that I'm hoping to take, from where I'll start a brief tour of the Székelyföld - a predominantly Hungarian region in central and eastern Transylvania. So long as there are tickets available, it should be a smooth way of crossing the some 8-9 hour distance. Couchettes may not always give the best rest, but they at least make it so you're wasting less time in transit. Next entry then should be coming from Transylvania.

... which made one field of several acres of sunflowers seem as brilliant as Van Gogh could imagine!) Edward explained that part of the problem was also the changeover from collectivisation of the lands. After the revolution in 1989, the government returned small plots of land to peasants, but they no longer had the means to purchase equipment to make the land profitable, and companies had not been able to go to the trouble of ...

... to Dracula's castle, it was a bit of a mission and two buses, but we arrived and managed to see and have a tour of the castle, the weather was a lot colder and I was struggling through lack of sleep. ˇ Bran Castle - 700 years of history, you can go up the dark stairs that Dracula went up himself! Bran's castle was interesting not as commercialized as I was expecting as I had been told all sorts of things, there was a market at the bottom of the road leading up to ...

... they arrived. It was already dark, but they had to head back to streets to find another hostel. They were surrounded by several Gypsy kids. With a lot bags and luggage on them, they found some of the bags' zippers had been opened. Fortunately, maybe the cops showed up or something, the kids suddenly flocked. 2) In Gara de Nord (the North Station), the same Americans encountered some "helpful locals" who volunteered to take them to their train. Once they ...

Hello all, Well I have just returned from my first adventure out of Bucharest to the beautiful Sinaia where I attempted to snowboard...more on that shortly and have officially been a teacher at Spiru Haret National College for two days. Today is my day off so I thought I'd take this opportunity to fill you all in. Ok so we finished our teaching course last Thursday and thought our long weekend would be the perfect opportunity to get out of Bucharest and visit some of the more ...

Well, as you can see this is now password protected so only YOU, my trusted friends and family, can read this. I can be a little more forthcoming. Thursdays are our days off from shooting. we are working 6 days a week, tho a lot of people are working more. The studio we are shooting at is about a 30-45min drive from the hotel. we have drivers that pick us up about 1 hr before call time to take us down. its a good thing cause i think people would be too stressed if ...