Capsa Bucharest
Calea Victoriei 36 Bucharest, Romania
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The Bucharest Boogey
... to all the main sites and filled our heads full of interesting facts about the city. The best part of the tour was standing in Revolution Square while having the guide describe the revolution exactly as it happened. He described how the whole thing went down. It was easy to to imagine since we were in the exact same location. This was the first revolution ever to be captured on TV and you can ...
Chasing visas in Bucharest
... letters on the spot and sends them by email. It worked. I wasn't sure if this would work a second time. I was having so much luck on this trip that I was beginning to wonder when my luck would run out. Would it be with Moldova? I really wasn't looking forward to having to wake up early and find the Moldavian consulate but these things must be done. I have no choice in the matter if I want to visit that country.
The next morning I arrived at the embassy at about 10am ...
A short day in Bucarest and on to Botosani...
... government halted all international adoptions after charges of corruption and "baby-buying" were raised. So Deb decided to keep the house open and raise the children until they were 18. The youngest ones are about 6-7 years old so there is a long road ahead. Deb recently turned over the management of the house to United Aid Foundation. Elizabeth Alex, Cathy Allin (another one of our mission participants and KC entrepreneur) and some other friends of Deb’s ...
Dogs? What dogs?
... aren’t complaining!
After an easy as pie border crossing just outside of Ruse in Bulgaria followed by a 1 ½ hour ride in some dude’s car, we were in Bucharest. Once we figured out exactly where he dropped us off (turned out to be fairly central) we started walking in what we thought was the direction of our hotel. A good 20 minutes later we found ourselves in front of the Palace of Parliament*, the second largest building the world, ...
HEADQUARTERS
... br> (on the Travel&Living Channel, Anthony Bourdain) made a mess in all
the viewers' heads.
Long story short: this is where the civilized West meets with the adaptive South East.
Yes, we do tolerate and house the gypsies (rroms) within our boarders!
NO, they are not Romanians!
Yes, we do have an amazing country (I can honestly say that, because I
believe that based on ...



