Hotel El Greco Bucharest

... center (Lipscani area) you have a lot to see.
The City Hall managed to refurbish this area partially, and they are on
the right track. Most of the houses had gypsy families which were
thrown out, and are now in a very serious restauration process.

Most buildings have history written all over both in and out side.

Architecturally speaking, they do resemble to the style in Paris, reason why Bucharest ...

... pe doua randuri. De departe iese in evidenta un stand destinat promovarii proiectului Cosmopolis, un cartier rezidential care se va construi in NE Bucurestiului dupa principiul 60% spatiu verde – 40% oras. Conceptul e interesant si mi-am propus sa urmaresc evolutia proiectului. Deocamdata totul e pe hartie.

In rest, cateva banci si IFN-uri in cautare de clienti pentru credite imobiliare, cativa intermediari, din astea. Dezvoltatorii imobiliari prezenti ...

... There is a mixture of old and modern buildings, trams, busy roads and a confusion of electrical wiring along the streets. We came across a movie set which we stayed and watched for a while. Obviously about WW11 as there were many extras dressed as German soldiers and Jews. Nearby, we went into a little church and convent, Stavropoleus Church (City of Crosses). The interior of the church was very ornate, decorated with gold and murals. Mostly though ...

... a few interesting streets where we would both have happily come back to if we were staying for a longer time. We eventually decided it was dinner time and found our way out to La Mama, the Romanian restaurant recommended to us, which was full and required a half hour wait at the bar for a table. After some agonizing about how all out we were going we ordered a bottle of wine and before long were sitting at our table. The others turned up ...

... It was a wonderful tour, and a really worthwhile introduction to the City which has some wonderful old buildings with a lot of French influence from a couple of centuries back when Bucharest was known as "Little Paris". (The train to get there was probably a lot more comfortable a century ago!) Afterwards, I walked around a bit to get my bearings, noticing that the pace of installing modern communications outstripped the ability to be tidy - everywhere there are cables ...

... castle that sold among lots of other things fangs and capes, but there wasn't people running around dressed up or posing for photos or anything like that. The castle it's self was very plain and not as much furniture in it as the previous one, we ended up walking up a hill at the back of the castle across a road and getting better views of the castle, we were the only people doing that and it certainly paid off. Next back on the bus to head back to Brasov via ...

... P I came to Romania actually kind of by accident. I was ****** in Vienna, reading my e-mail, when I popped open a message from my Romanian friend Sabina. She informed me that Serbia bordered Romania, and rather demanded that I go to visit her. I reckon it was a combination of the beer, the moment, and the reputation of how gorgeous the girls are that finally convinced me to buy a second plane ticket regardless of time, cost, or feasibility =P So here I am ...

... their wagon, the guy said he usually charged 25 Lei (7 Euro) for "that type of service" (helping people find their train). With their tickets still in this guy's hand, they just paid the 25 Lei! 3) This one is the most scary: two Dutch guys walked out of the North Station, a guy approached them and said he was the representative sent by so-and-so youth hostel. Since these two Dutch guys happened to have reservation at the so-and-so hostel, they gladly left with ...

... I managed to find an almost perfect cookie at Gloria Jeans (for those of you who understand the significance of that). So all in all it was an interesting if not overly eventful weekend. We are going to try out the only Thai restaurant we can find reference to in Bucharest as part of my birthday celebrations tomorrow and this weekend we are planning a trip to Sibiu which is apparently the cleanest place in Romania so that should be a nice change. More news soon, Love to you all Amy xxx

... zoom in, more, more, that's good!" is "zoom in,....woof" ...so a bunch of people from the american crew were going out to dinner tonight, and invited me along. i declined, stating i have a big day tomorrow, want to et some rest.... and i proceeded to stay int he bar downstairs and dish....4 beers later and im typing ot you here, mistakes and all....off to bed! 7am call tomorrow.......BYE!!!!!!!!!