Hotel Padova Inn Bucharest

Day 3:

Walk to Peasant Museum, like
Ethnographic museums of Bulgaria and other EE countries. Good but not
as great as guidebook makes out. Walk up to Village Museum. Good but
only a dozen of 70 odd houses open. Lots of walking about. Saw some
glue sniffing gypsy kids by station - thought they were an
over-exaggeratio...

Bucharest has a lot more of a Western feeling about it than I expected. After an east block style queue of more than 40 minutes to show your ID Card at the tiny old Baneasa airport your taxi into town rides on nice boulevards, lined with modern office buildings, past a Stalinist landmark, a marble arch, serene parks and embassies. Some squares ...

*PASSPORTS* woken by Bulgarian border control for a check at around 4am... cheers for that, back to sleep I woke up at around 12 noon, and we were passing through some nice Bulgarian countryside, sweeping through hills and river scenery, no industrialised area in sight! I took a few pictures to show the others guys if they didnt wake up soon eno...

The last day in Europe. I have a lunch date with Laura...where does she want to go? UGGGGHH...The Brand New Hard Rock Cafe in Bucharest. YUK! Actually, during the day, not crowded and the music not so loud, it was not so bad. Just awfully expensive and full of **** memorobilia ike Rod Stewart's and Steve Tyler's stage outfits. Personally, I thin...

Transilvania, lugar de leyendas, barbarie e inspiracion vampirica, ahora convertido en un halloween perpetuo. Restauraciones baratas, collage de recuerdos, y souvenirs disparejos. Sales del castillo y por unos cuantos leis puedes ser el orgulloso poseedor de un atrapasuenos con la cara de vlad tepes, un juego de espaditas de plastico o una masca...

Hello BCCS friends! We had a safe, uneventful, and early flight to Bucharest via Frankfurt on Lufthansa. A little weary and bleary, but we have a wonderful old hotel (the Capitol Hotel www.hotelcapitol.ro) right in the heart of the city shopping, business, and arts district. Bucharest is a vibrant modern city with lots of hustle and bustle, but ...

Saturday, September 2, 2006 Successful Tour Launching 11:00pm Bucharest Time Dear Readers: My alarm goes off at 7:00am this morning, and I want to continue sleeping. I resist the urge, however, and get up to have breakfast with the others guys who arrived a day early. We have a fantastic time, sitting and talking over a leisurely meal for about ...

What a train journey! Best summed up by drinking beer, choking on cigarette smoke and enjoying some of Elvis's classic tunes while eating grilled pork in the v.70s dining car... We also entertained ourselves by reading our pocket guide to Romania for the first time. This is what it had to say about Bucharest: "...until Brasov - in so many ways t...

*Clears throat* Reece here, reporting to you from the best smelling place in Bucharest, the British Council. The group got kinda lazy on the weekend, after a big Friday night at a sleezy Romanian Club called 'Twice' where ladies got in for free and women slithered along the bar in fluorescent bikinis. So instead of heading to Mamaia the next day...

25 hours to Bucharest ... In the last entry we left you as we were leaving for Bucharest on a 25 hour train ride. Although we expected the train ride to be brutal, we had no idea it would be like this... It started like most other train rides did. Seat reservations, a rush to get to the train before the departure and then the scramble to climb a...