Hotel Viilor Bucharest

... 8221; de anul asta. La iesire, aflu ca automobilele sunt de fapt de inchiriat si nu de vanzare.

Cam bate vantul prin Piata Constitutiei in anul asta. Poate va fi mai bine la anul.

In rest, nimic nou pe frontul de est.

P.S. Organizatorii targului prezinta pe site-ul propriu un mare succes comercial: vanzarea prin licitatie inversa a primei case. Licitatie inversa, adica… castiga cine da mai putin. Cum spuneam, nimic nou pe frontul de est.

... roam the street, while mostly docile, don't really soothe one's nerves, and the inability to get around the city without getting lost at least once (my Romanian, though never good, was awful at the beginning of the trip) was quite annoying. We did have a wonderful meal at a Spanish restaurant, though, where I could actually speak a language I fully understood. I won't say Bucharest is without certain charms, but I might say the Spanish restaurant is the memory I will keep with me the longest.

... family we have debated this percentage), which were lovely and flavourful. We had tea and we thought we were finished the meal, the chicken I saw sitting on the stove on top of a beer bottle was too be for the evening meal. Naturally with bellies full we were surprised to see Mrs. Radu bring out plates of chicken, pork chops, and stuffed mushrooms to continue with the meal. We did our best to eradicate the lovely tender chicken, and then later to eat ...

... round to it as well), and the woman was just soooo rude 'That's it, you either take it or leave it' - yep we'll leave it thanks, oh & thanks again for the great customer service!!! Well that was pretty much the extent of our visit to Bucharest, as we spent another half hour driving around looking for the main square to grab a bite to eat & have a wander, and just gave up in the end, as signage here is just shocking! Not the best city as you ...

... seemingly taking the decision to turn every other building in the city into a casino instead. We were seeing the Palace with 25y.o. Ryan from Oregon, who had been in Spain on business and had extended a few weeks in order to see some of eastern Europe. He made the solid observation "Look at all the rubbish Murdoch's paid a billion dollars for, like MySpace. You'd absolutely rather have this than MySpace". A fair point. (I was already jealous that ...

... Anyhow, as I stated before, the heat has only gotten worse as of today, so I've done precious little outdoors. Other than hoof it over here from the Carpati with my pack, I've stayed in and enjoyed the fresh air-conditioning. Tomorrow it's supposedly going to improve, which is good; I don't want to spend all my time in Bucharest sitting indoors. But it's nice to take a day off on occasion, especially when it's pushing the mid-40s Celsius outside. Hopefully this is the worst of it.

... they moved the decimal point over four places. The new lei is very easy to understand. The problem is that the old currency is still in circulation as well. This made for some very confusing moments. After getting my ticket for Sofia I asked a local girl how to get to the old town area. Her name was Alexandra. She ended up taking me to Piata Roma, one of the areas with a few museums. Alexandra insisted on buying my metro ticket ...

... way they carried on - replete with massive amounts of swearing, along with begging, pleading, cajoling and bullying the train conductor - you would have thought the train was in fuego. We were embarrassed for our country and even considered offering them our cabin to get them to shut up, but we concluded such bad behavior shouldn't be positively rewarded. So the best we could do was throw looks of sympathy in the conductor's direction and roll our eyes. Whilst the stream of swear ...

... Two hours later, she worked out we were actually in the wrong place, and had to go down to Piata Romana to the Authorities for Aliens. On the way there, we passed a man walking his toy poodle. "I hate small dogs" commented Christina, which led me to wonder why she had decided to wear one upon her head. At midday, we finally had everything sorted, although it took me some time to convince Christina that Australia isn't a part of ...

... style. We started in a German room with intricately carved railings and wood inlaid pictures of the king`s other castles in Germany. Then there was the armory with guns, swords, shields, spears and armor from all over the world. There was a Venetian room with mirrors all round the room and on the doors at either end that when shut made the room look much bigger. There was a huge glass chandelier from Mirano too. There was a large library with a ...