Ramada Majestic Bucharest Hotel

... the outside. I thought she was really strong. If it was for me, I would have been crying and thinking I would have no way out and I would never see my mommy again! I would have been a drama queen, oh yes I would. I admired Magda being strong and calm.<br> <br> Magda sat next to me and I told her it was all going to resolve.<br> <br> "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." My momma never told me that, but I told her that because I truly believe ...

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... wanted him to be executed, it was hardly fair, but then again neither was the way he had treated his people for twenty-nine miserable years. He and his wife were executed shortly afterwards. There is a large memorial in the centre of the square and just to the left of the Party building is the shell of the Securitate headquarters. The protestors tore it down and ended the reign of the dreaded secret police, which allegedly used to expose enemies of the state to ...

... way we stopped off to visit the monastry at Cozia where we were met for lunch by some Rotarians of Ramnicu Valcea club. Among our kind hosts we were met by: Club President; Ion Albescu, Club Executive Secretary; Maria Vlad-Butariu, Assistant Governer: Ani Antonescu Cozia Monastry (http://www.manastirea-cozia.go.ro/summ ary.htm) was built around 1388 and is deemed to be one of the most valuable monuments ...

... being suckled by the she-wolf, indicative of an ancient tie to Rome, and I have seen the enormous mall that is the temple to the coming capitalist age. This is a city and a country undergoing rapid changes. It's difficult to know what direction it will all take. But I hope that this awkward adolescence ends well, and that Romania finds a way of existing in the modern world without losing the charm that I have seen, dimly, through dusty train windows and under layers of city grime.

... So, we ditched that plan and just took the highway into town. The drivers were exceptionally patient with us even through the construction. Having watched Romanians drive for a bit, I was worried. Bucharest is a strange blend of western architecture and Ceausescu's architecture. Ceausescu's being the Stalinist dictator for the second half of the 20th century and was the reason for the '89 revelation. All of this I ...

... pretty in its own shabby way if I just wasn't scared of it. They say the surrounding countryside is going to boom- the little villages and towns in the Carpathian mountains are already becoming the 'new' travel destination because of their unspoilt beauty. I am going to miss out on that. I am still glad to be heading West, I can't say I am not. The poverty, dirt and bleakness of this cities life just was a 'vacation' atmosphere. I am sure people live out their lives here in ...

... buildings surrounding the square light up come dusk. The city goes to bed late, there were crowds out until late every night. As you start to deviate off the main streets though the buildings become far more asture and the communists housing blocks become apparent. The historical quarter is worth a look. Brasov has established itself as one of the key tourist destinations in the country. A small town tucked away in the mountains to the north of Bucharest ...

Hello! Back from a very exciting/scary/expensive weekend in Brasov :-) We all headed up to Brasov on Friday afternoon (on different trains as we all finished school at different times). Marie headed up early and got us some of the cheapest tickets possible to the "Golden Stag Festival" where Natalie Imbruglia was performimng that night. Our cheap ($12 AUD) tickets meant that we were seated right up the back, approximately 36 kilometres ...

... eingeladen - hier bin ich. Er hat aufgehoert, Politik zu studieren. Jetzt macht er erstmal - genau, gar nix. Ausser Ski fahren. Und rauchen. Alles. Und trinken. Wir stehen grad kurz vor einer Geburtstagsparty, also muss ich nochmal etwas Schlaf fassen ;) Heute haben wir aber erstmal Bukarest erkundet - das zweitgroesste Haus der Welt (nach dem Pentagon, das Haus des Parlaments), die netten Kirchen (roemisch- und griechisch-katholische, und griechisch-orthodoxe), die ...