Hilton Bucharest

... , live gypsy music so stayed for a while. Onto the national theatre where we'd been filmed years before, near to Bucharest's 0 marker where all distances are measured from next to memorial to people killed during demonstrations in 1989. Down the road a ...

... original owners, who then opened it to the public. Back on the bus and we finally arrived at our campsite just outside Bucharest. Day 12 Bucarest has a reputation of stray dogs and thieves, with the only desirable tourist attraction, the palace. The bus ...

... , $25 each!  Yow.  Make sure you validate your ticket too.  Same deal if you don't.    Bucharest is a loveable dilapidated mess.  I liken it to walking through the countryside and stumbling upon a beautiful gothic era home ...

... Romania the weather started heating up and we were sweated out of our tents early on the two bush camps between Budapest and Bucharest. On our last day in Bucharest (12th August) it reached 41 degrees Celsius which was not the best birthday present ...

... people its sleep time. The next day most people go into town to do the tourist thing. I've only heard bad things about Bucharest (packs of dogs attacking people) and instead of proving the guide books wrong I decided to stay at the camp site and get to ...

... to London today, by way of Vienna on Austrian Airlines. However, before we left, the last stop on the tour was to Bucharest, Romania for a drive around the city and a visit to the second largest building in the world, Parliament Palace, aka Ceausescu's ...

Last day in Bucharest and as we have a morning free, we walk to see the Palace of Parliament.  It's overcast and a bit rainy and would have visited inside but needed our passports to do so and we never carry them for security reasons so never got to ...

... local cuisine. We went to the railway ticketing office and purchased seats for our journey to Bucharest, Romania tomorrow. She Said: What do Paris Hilton, Nick Lachey, Nellie Furtado and Shakira have in common besides the fact that they are ...

... buses, that have blighted my trip so far needed to be eradicated. The quickest route and most direct was to get the train to Bucharest, change and then get a non-stop train to Istanbul. The girl kept trying to sell me a ticket that would mean I would ...

... here. There was no way to get to the island, as it seemed the tourist season was over. We gave up and drove to Bucharest, turned the car in, and flew to Sofia. In Sofia we took a taxi into downtown and stopped at a 4 star hotel. ...

... everything is built to the same scale, nothing seems too big or out of place. After the mish-mash approach of Bucharest, it makes a welcome change. All this is epitomised on the world heritage area of Andrassy avenue. Home to continental Europe's first ...

... or 60 minutes, so we got the 30. We sat in the trolley-bus, which was an awful old thing which reminded us of Bucharest 10 year ago, watching buildings pass by. In less than 10 minutes we got to the Danube crossing and suddenly found ourserves in ...