Ibis Bucharest

... spent in your warm and welcoming company. So on to Bucharest! We were picked up at the airport by Gabriel Iosif (Bucharest Continental Club President), and Cristian Udresco and are staying in the Ibis hotel in the city....I can see the parliament ...

... going to bed we all wanted to visit Camelia's flat! And so... we had the last chat before going to bed in her appartment in central Bucharest. Thanks Camelia for taking care of us..  you're the nicest tax-advisor we've ever met! ;-) Good ...

Day 27 - By Adrian. After a great night at the conference today was a sedate day of travel from Alba Iulia to Bucharest. This is a journey of only approx 350km which took us from 10:30 till almost 19:00. On the bus with us were Kalyan Banerjee and his ...

... Romanians there too, enjoying the peaceful atmosphere and quiet of the area. We then took a trip down the major boulevards of Bucharest, including Victoria, Charles de Gaulle and Dorobanti ('Do-ro-ban-tz' - a type of soldier in World War 2), all names ...

... exterior. Ally has read that you can do tours there so we will have to do that when we come back to Bucharest at the end of the week. The Ibis is pretty nice and the two people behind the desk today are fabulous. When we came in we noticed that their ...

Day 17 - Our first vocational day in Bucharest - Adrian, Marco and Oonagh will report separately and Mike will attempt to co-ordinate (fat chance!).   Mike's day started slowly and after lunch in the hotel I accompanied Camelia on a school visit. ...

After the onc night in Constanta headed back to Bucharest...for reasons beyond my control, I have to eliminate Croatia from my itinerary...next time... Caught the bus instead of the train back to Buc; quicker, cheaper and has A/C, but definitely not as ...

... ! went for wander, bit lost, stray dogs following me! came back to station. had brainwave of hotel. raided info at desk in ibis hotel by station. walk all way down. suprisingly quiet. lovely buildings. palace of people huge, lots and lots of fountains! ...

... met some really awesome people....and may have spent a reasonable chunk of Day 19 sleeping! In the afternoon Aurel Pavel from Bucharest Continental Rotary Club invited us to his lake house on Snagov Lake. The house is a 9 bedroom property owned by his ...

... left Mia's and headed for Cristian and Mia's house. They live in a new suburban area about 1 hour from central Bucharest. Modern, architect designed houses generally on good sized plots. A very attractive and safe neighbourhood with the children able to ...

Since my flights were delayed coming out of Providence and Wash Dulles, I was delayed getting to Bucharest until my second to last night there.  So the one night in the city we spent eating at some great restaurants in the old city and exploring the ...

... slyly passing the border guard hald a kilo of pork, the train got going again, and a few hours later we were in Bucharest. I stepped off the train and was immediately harassed by a pregnant dog, children wanting to help me with my bags, and men who ...

... somewhat freightened by planes, great opportunity to remind him about recent episodes of "Air Disasters" and so forth. We left Bucharest on a Friday afternoon and reached Vienna with a SkyEurope regular flight at about 7 pm local time. On our travel ...