Bucharest Travel Blogs

Geeez, seems we praied to much for the snow to come, and here it comed!!! LOLSnow has 1,5 m in some parts of the country, and in Bucharest all the streets are blocked.Was kinda hard to find even bread, since cars are not able to come .So we just start to go out and play with snow...pretty cool, for…

Was meant to check out at 10am, but with it being cold and grey hung about as long as I could. Even got round to reading the card from the Ministry Of The Interior and their valuable insights on how to look after your cash and luggage and that drugs and prostitution were naughty things to be i…

Saturday morning it became a bit noisy in our dormitory room as some people were leaving already quite early. Us three were just too tired and sleepy to get up early. It was around 9:30 when me and Dan suddenly decided it’s time to start a new day. Karri needed a little bit more to recover. …

The Parliament Palace (former People`s House) is the last immense edifice of work of the Romanian people under the Communist dictatorship Ceausescu. Initially the building was intended to house all major state institutions, but Ceausescu decided the palace to be his personal residence (more than …

I got to Bucharest late last night after flying in from Copenhagen via Frankfurt - unfortunately the direct flight connections did not start until the end of March. I had kind of thought about giving Bucharest a miss - I have not heard anything good about the city but lots of bad stuff like load…

I remeber that some many years ago when i was a little girl and Romania was a comunist country, i experienced the most great things of my life.Even the adults were living a drama in a poor country with a sever regim, "we" the kids we created our own perfect world. We didnt had many toys ,we didnt h…

This is the second internet cafe in Constanta I've tried to download my blog into . . . nobody takes memory sticks so the blog will be slightly delayed untill we reach a larger city.  However, Trish, Diz, my husband and I are having a great time.  Who knew that Eastern Europe had such an …

The biggest christmas tree from Europe.  It is placed in the Union Square, Bucharest, at the moment of lighting the 76 meters (aproximately a quarter of the Eiffel Height) high Christmas tree, with 3 meters star, and a base larger then 20 meters, weighting 200 tones.   The National…

that was a trip that begun as a joke... i saw a different place from what im used to... too many places so little time... so 3 days on the run...! i was not excited but the the 3 of us had a great time!

Romania was once the home of a large and vibrant jewish community. Tragically, most of this community did not survive the WW2 holocaust. The old jewish synagogue at the heart of Bucharest stands as one of the evidents for the lively the jewish community who had once lived in Bucharest. From a j…

Welcome to Romania..a place where u can ski on the best moutaines...and fish in Danube river.

After a good night's rest (and morning too) we got up around 11am, all refreshed and ready to tackle the City of Bucharest.  I was excited to discover where my soon to be wife lived her childhood.Ion, Emilia's father, drove us near the center of the city and dropped us off. I could see the twi…

“I haven’t met a single person who says they’ve spent longer than one day in Bucharest!” pipes up the lass form Sheffield in the Rolling Rock hostel in Brasov some days later.  I gently raise my arm in an “I have” gesture.  Not per se in the city’s defence.  I remain, l…

This trip came out of nowhere.For 3 days we were running against time to see as much as we could.I don't know if it was the best destination we could choose, but we had great time !!!

In 2004 I was lucky to be able to travel to Bucharest - this place surpriced me with it's charm and friendly population. I know I will come back to this city and next time I will have some more time.