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By: Herni Hashim
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| Sunday, 10-Aug-2008 05:43 |
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Romanian Adventure
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I can't really say much about Bucharest since my stay was very very brief. I could have stayed a day longer if I had not missed my flight. Yes, another miss fortunate after the Heathrow incident. The London transport never fails to fail...I thought I could save a few bucks by taking the train to the airport but unfortunately the tube line I was taking had a delay and because of that I couldn't make it to train station on time and by the time I reached the airport, the check-in counter was already closed and I missed my flight by a FEW seconds! I was really upset and almost broke down. What do you expect, I had a big rucksack and a broken luggage to carry up and down the stair case, running, trying to find directions, running again and praying I would make it for the train but didn't but still praying a miracle would happen and in the end the luck was just not on my side! Of course, anybody especially a girl would brake down! So, instead of saving a few Pounds for taking the public transport, I had to spend more Pounds than I should because of the bloody delay.
Anyways, when I arrived in Bucharest, the first thing I noticed was how cute Romanian men are! Really! The border guard who checked my passport was really hot! He's not the usual blond, pale skin European. The Romanians are much tanner. Yeah, that was the very first thing I noticed. The second thing was the weather. Bucharest had a really hot summer. I was still with my jacket and scarf in the morning, in London and I felt like taking off everything when I arrived in Bucharest. Mihaela waited for me at the aiport and took me to his uncle's. My first impression of Bucharest after I stepped out of the airport was how similar Bucharest is with Jakarta. The traffic, the people, the atmosphere itself is just like Jakarta but with European flavour. After settling down with my luggage and stuff at Mihaela's uncle's, we went for a walk around the city and took some photos. That night Mihaela and I spent the night at her friend's.
I had to spend the day by myself the next day as it was Monday and Mihaela had to go to work. I guess my time in Bucharest was not right. All the museums I wanted to go closed on Mondays so there was not much thing I could do besides taking more photos and kill my time in shopping malls before meeting up with Mihaela in the evening. We had dinner together with her friend, took more photos in the park and at HRC and called the day off.
I only had few hours of sleep before I made a move to the airport at a wee hour in the morning to continue my trip to Zurich!
Platia unirii or the union Square is one of the largest squares in central Bucharest. It was originally built during the communist era as the boulevard of the victory of socialism and renamed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989
Standing in front of Romanian Parliament building. The Palace of the Parliament is the second largest administrative building after the Pentagon.
This is the city of Bucharest. Though it was just a brief stay, it seems to me that the city resembles Jakarta of Europe. With the traffic chaos, the drivers, the people and the city itself is so much like Jakarta except Bucharest has subways. There's not much of developlement. The architectures are similar to any other eastern block countries with grey and brown square buildings very much alike to the ones in Plac Konstuctuci in Warsaw.
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