Best Western Parc Hotel Bucharest

... Museum. Good but only a dozen of 70 odd houses open. Lots of walking about. Saw some glue sniffing gypsy kids by station - thought they were an over-exaggeration by LP guide. Found healthy sandwich place for lunch! Hummus wrap - yay! Booked seat reservation. Asked in Romanian for it - woman behind counter impressed. People in general been much nice today than 1st day.<br><br>Day 4: Chlling out here in hostel, waiting for 1pm train to Brasov. <br>

... but being as it is the second largest building in the world it is massive and takes a long time to walk past (once you find it).<br><br>Not only is the Parliament House massive, it is also really impressive looking. Ally has read that you can do tours there so we will have to do that when we come back at the end of the week.<br><br>The Ibis is pretty nice and the two people behind the desk today are fabulous ...

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... Bucharest stop and woke up in a train yard about 2 kilometers away from the train station. I had to walk back, dodging trains and getting chased by a pack of stray dogs. Bucharest is notorious for having more than 100,000 stray dogs which can be very aggressive. I had heard from other travellers that Bucharest was not such a nice place to visit, so I immediately booked a train to Sinaia, the southernmost town of Transylvania.

... Satului (Village Museum) in the park, which I'd meant to do this trip. I didn't get to the gate of the place until 6:15, and with it set to close at 7, there wasn't any point in paying to go in. I suppose there's always next time - whenever on earth that'll be. Bucharest is certainly changing quickly. There's loads of construction going on, many old buildings have been nicely restored, and practically the entire historic center is under a ...

... 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 ...

... castle, so much old furniture and really amazing rooms, all different from the next and nothing like we had seen before, this place was beautiful and with the snow capped mountains in the back ground we could have been in Switzerland, gorgeous.... Next we jump on the train and head to Brasov though because we got off at Sinaia, when we jumped back on the train we didn't have seats anymore and the train was packed so we had to stand the hour or so to go of our ...

... Well, here's the head-scratcher: The ticketing office at the station only sells tickets for up to two hours in advance and only for domestic trains. If you want to buy a ticket to any international destination or a ticket to anywhere domestic more than two-hours in advance, you must go to the railway ticketing office downtown, which is about 3 miles from the station! Go figure... She Said: Bucharest is a strange blend of old communist style buildings interspersed with really ...

... about Spring etc etc. So we were all set to head out on Friday night when the weather turned bad. Em and Hayley were really keen to go Bucharest's only gay club (????)- which seemed pretty suss because not one of my students knew it existed- but the last group of gappers apparently thought it was worth visiting for the music and dancing so I decided to go along with it. We first headed out to a couple of other pub/cafe/club places with our Romanian friend Betty from Sinaia-who ...

... reason witha supervisor- and they so no, its not possible, they are not here!! AHA!! so i ask, well, then, how would THEY know if I brought in a pizza???? ".....uh, security would know....." SECURITY????? for eating pizza in the bar??? so i say, well, does security have a supervisore here?" of course not, not at 8pm..... i ponder getting one anyway but figure i better not test the waters. the romanian mafia is big and you never know.....but one of my ...