Crowne Plaza Bucharest

... hours without food is a very real possibility on an American airliner. <br><br>Here in Bucharest, we went to a park our first evening here. It was packed with people boating, eating, strolling, whatever. There was a festival of sorts going on where a metal band led by a 13-year-old kid performed (the bassist was probably 17, and the drummer was like 50). I would love to say it was a great concert and the kid was a prodigy, but the beginning of the song we heard certainly needed a bit of ...

... I got ankle tapped by one. And then I sat in a park and enjoyed the 7 am sun and a mist rolling thought the park. Street kids and gypsies begging for money. I walked alot around in circles, or maybe just one big circle. I actually found a nice restuarant and had the best ever rissoto with a mix of seafood. I did have an extremly laid back day. It just isnt really a city that i found special. But then again I think Iwas just tired. I know ...

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... bought guard dogs for protection. We are staying with Tavi's family, who happen to have a dog as well, and everytime he needs to go out for a walk, this turns into a veritable symphony of barking and yelling from guard dogs as well as from the strays. Speaking of Tavi's family, we were received extremely well and made to feel at home. We will feel sorry when we will leave. It has been a break from the backpacker life we were getting used to.

... wrapped in brown paper, and swipes at the woman who smacks him back in the face with a haymaker without even thinking and then stands back, smiles and draws calmly on her fag while her partner screams at the old man and throws handfuls of popcorn at him. In her own time the woman gets stuck back in with gusto, seeming to relish the encounter, and then they both walk on and continue their own fight where they ...

... about now. The concert consisted of a girl playing piano with a tenor singing a TON of songs. The first thing that made me laugh was the tenor asked us not to clap between the songs (In Romanian then in English), because it would throw off his pitch. I mumbled to myself, "ya right" and knew the ill-fated applause was just moments away. Well, after the first song, a couple people BURST into applause, to which the tenor wrinkled his nose ...

... that day (the weather had been mostly miserable since I entered Romania), the whole neighborhood felt grime. I walked toward the Palace, saw its entrance and box office for sightseeing tour, but decided not to enter. I just wanted to walk around it and see it from outside. Yes, it is a really monstrous building. Walking from its north entrance to its eastern entrance, it took at least 10 minutes. East of the building is B-dul Unirii (Union Boulevard), leading ...

Buna, Hello all and welcome to my very first blog relating to my adventures in Bucharest, Romania. So, after having spent a week here I can safely say that if nothing else my time here is guaranteed to be a truly unique experience and so unbeleivably different from anything that I know back home. Ok so I have to tell you about my plane trips. Not only was it my first trip alone but it was the first time I have been overseas alone since I was 4 which, I discovered once I met the other ...

... 000 leu = $1 us. even with cheat sheet it seems i cant get it straight. and they are in the middle of a money swith from the devalued lei to the more valuable RON. just take away 4 zero's and you have the conversion. mayb e its easier to do that.....so $1 = 2.8 ron so to convert, take away 4 zero's and divide by 3...even then im a deer in headlights whenever i try to give them too much money. ARgh. one more free day then its into the frying pan...