Bucharest
Trip Start
May 28, 2006
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Trip End
May 17, 2007
Bucharest,
Romania
Sunday, June 4, 2006
We also entertained ourselves by reading our pocket guide to Romania for the first time. This is what it had to say about Bucharest:
Calea Victoriei - Bucharest's Champs Elysee (!)
"...until Brasov - in so many ways the centre of Romania - gets itself an international airport, it is almost certain that you'll arrive in Bucharest. This is unfortunate because you should be under no illusions about the capital's attractions: it is a dirty, noisy, often overwhelming city whose charms are not obvious..."
town planning Ceausescu style
We actually quite enjoyed it. Might have had something to do with the v.nice hotel (in the middle of what remains of Old Bucharest - about 2 blocks of communism's version of the Wild West). Not too many sights to see in Bucharest it turns out, so we spent our time soaking up the atmosphere and spotting the best examples of communist architecture (see right for a classic!). 
