Ramada Bucharest North

... called the "Little Paris".

A unique style is the pure-bread Romanian Brancovenesc style, launched
by the Brancoveanu family (research on Wikipedia please, not where!).



In this city you can do it all: walk, visit, relax, shop, drive, gamble, get robbed, or eat...

Yes, you can do other interesting things, but it's not legal like in
Amsterdam. And cops can be very stupid... unlike the robbers. Keep ...

... OTP. (1 USD = 3 RON)

Gina is a *****.

We got lost going to the other airport when it was on the same street, same side of the street and less than ten minutes away.

1:30 PM, Marius and I, again, dropped the girls in the front of the airport and tried to find parking in this small and narrow airport. We found a parking outside of the small airport and parked there. Marius stayed in the car and I went to get the girls to tell them where we parked because none ...

... Well don't worry, I'm working on it. I walked down into the older part of Bucharest, which is also the student district, passing several more Orthodox churches and an "old princely hall" featuring a bust of Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Count Dracula in Bram Stokers book of the same name. It looked like getting in would cost money so I did the mature thing and took a few photos through the fence, much to the irritation of the person at the gate. Their problem ...

... course with a choice of a fantastic sour beef or sour fish soup - both were absolutely fantastic and we spent a good chunk of the meal trying to work out which herbs were used (sorry England....we failed!). The main course was a choice of simply-cooked carp or beef served with rice and pickled peppers and some white + red wine made in the monastry (at this point I have to say that whilst the food was ...

La siguiente estapa va desde Brasov a Veliko Turnovo pasando por Bucarest. Habiamos leido que la estacion de Bucarest era un horror de chusmas y de gente rarita pero, es que nadie ha estado en la Brasov? En una hora esperando nuestro tren vimos una enorme coleccion de chusmas e incluso una pelea a punetazos entre un hombre y una mujer! Y gano ella cuando le dio una patada en unas escaleras! Nuestro tren llego y, para nuestra sorpresa, era fantastico, moderno, limpio, comodo, WC en ...

... yourself with laughter instead of a nightmare! I guess I had my first laughmare- it was good (need to look up the roots of 'nightmare' and find out what the 'mare' means). Off to dining car (I think). Conductor has to come and lock the room door so I need to ring for him. If I wish to go too the men's room, I have to ring for him. The door has two internal deadbolts, two chain locks. I wonder if I am crazy for even leaving it! But I'm hungry and want to get to bed early (will ...

... and dank dungeons was dismissed. Instead, this is a home of a noble family, with it's quaint little cobbled courtyard and spire topped roof. Tacky souvenier shops line the entry, all pretty much selling the same things. It was the first sign of souveniers I had seen since being in Romania, and much of it resembled items you could get at any joke shop, fake blood and masks included. This is seriosuly over-rated. It takes about an hour to get there from Brasov ...

... the door behind us and LOCKED IT!!!! We were all a bit apprehensive and we began lookng around desperately for a wooden stake. Turned out the old woman just had an illegal wool trade going on. She tried to entice us to buy one of her not-so-lovely hand-made jumpers, beanies, or slippers, but we had to politely say no to all of these items, and beg her to let us out. That night, five of us headed out clubbing at a place called 'Club ...

... by night. What a completely different story. I swear, Romanians must have built tunnels going from their homes directly to the night clubs! The streets were still empty and all the clubs were packed with people dancing their feet off. Great clubs, great booze and finally NO GARLIC ODOUR ANYWHERE. I tell you, Bucharest knows how to party!!!