Ramada Majestic Bucharest Hotel

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Here are just a few recs:

EAT
- CARU' CU BERE: traditional Romanian food (large portions!) in a very authentic setting. The restaurant was launched in the best period - between the two WWs - and was recently refurbished. In order not to bore you with ****, the new owners invested up to 4 million EUROs to start a new chapter of this place. Entertainment: traditional dancers, traditional musicians ...

... our phones worked.

When I walked to the front of the airport I saw them waiting for us. "Hmmm?? That was a fast run to get some plane tickets." I thought.

"I don't know where my wallet is. I must have left it somewhere or someone stole it. I can't buy my ticket if I don't have my passport and money." Magda was calm but you can see the sadness in her eyes. She looked like she was asking herself, "Why me?"

I showed Magda where the car is so we can check the ...

... mine, if they don't want people taking photos they'll make their fence less photo friendly. I walked down a few streets until I came to the Amsterdam Grand Café. The menu promised a variety of exotic beers and as a result I went inside. A group of increasingly drunk students cluttered one corner, waving beers at each other and shouting in Romanian and the walls were decorated with medieval shields and heraldry. I was home- well, if they got rid of those students and ...

... the wine was stunning...and I'm assured that as it's religious wine all my sins have now been forgiven. With this principle I made sure to drink some wine for a couple of future sins as well!). Finally we were given a traditional Romanian cake for desert. After lunch Kalyan said a few words - especially noting that we had 6 nationalities round just 1 table! and the club president, Ion, also said a few ...

... y musica entre otros de Mana, Juanes y Amaral! No hemos visto Bucarest pues el tiempo se acaba y habia que elegir. Tan solo hemos visto la estacion. Ya no sufrimos del acoso de los "vendedores de habitaciones" por ser temporada baja. Ahora lo normal son solo taxistas conazo que te sacan un ojo de la cara si los usas. Este tren era una pesadilla. Habia gente para reventar y nos vimos negros para andar por el estrecho pasillo hacia nuestro compartimento. Coincidimos con una mochilera ...

Hello friends! We've had a wonderful first full day in Romania. The only disappointment so far is I haven't found an internet cafe where I can upload the pictures we have to show you, but hopefully we'll find a way! The day just finished with our first performance, at a Lutheran Church in the center of the city. We had a number of concerns about this one - since it doesn't involve another choir, we were afraid that we might not have much of an audience ...

... up at 4) so, its off to eat. Lets see if I make to Budapest without incident- I'm certainly hoping so! -- The train ride was surreal. Once locked and bolted into the small cabin, I was somewhat snug and safe. I turned off the lights and lay in the bunk watching the moon come up over the Carpathians. Since I don't wear a watch, time is irrelevant. I spent hours musing and watching small train stations pass. A fog came out and blanketed the entire plain off to the distant mountains ...

... a rickety old bus and takes about 20mins to walk around the castle proper. On entry you don some cloth covers for your shoes, which I suspect are a cunning way of getting the floorboards polished! :) Sinaia is another small town up in the mountains. Initial plans had been to go hiking up in the mountains. Tina had a local friend who knew the area, but the rain and fog soon put a dampener on this. It didn't stop a visit to Peles Castle, which as it turned out ...

... which seemed friendly at first, but turned nasty rather quickly. Emily and Jemima were stolen from us by hairy men who weren't keen on letting go of them (Emily still has dark bruises where her dance partner was grasping her arm). In the end, Chris and I had to take the girls and run. Naturally we were pursued by the gentlemen concerned, and offers of broken noses ensued. Luckily, the sober friend in their group came out and talked ...

Sest hodin spanku a znova pracujeme. :-) Dnes som mal urobit tu istu uz nacvicenu prednasku, trochu pobehat po okoli hotela a trochu sa porozpravat s novymi zakanikmi. Uplna pohoda. :-) Okolo stvrtej potom zbali fidlatka a fijuuu do Lublany cez Vieden. V skutocnosti som este vo Viedni nikdy neprestupoval, tak som si to dnes vyskusal. :-) Z Bukuresti som odchadzal za dazda a do Lublany som prisiel do sice mrznuceho pocasia ale uplne bez snehu a s bezoblacnou oblohou.