Easter Weekend in Bucharest, Romania Part 2

Easter weekend was spent in Bucharest, Romania and as I mentioned in the first post the capital is not a colourful city! The colourful bits are the street art/graffiti, parks and the walls, windows in the the many churches.

The second photo is the Palace of the Parliament, we only saw it from the front, but looking at pictures of the whole building it is huge, colossal, gigantic, massive and any other adjective you can think of to describe big!  I actually now regret not visiting inside looks quite amazing! It is the second largest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon, it has 20 floors and 8 of them are underground!

Don`t be put of Romania if you think the whole country is like Bucharest as it is not! We had a quick trip to Brasov, lovely city/town and there is also Sighisoara which looks fantastic to visit and also Timisoara. Check out this link and you may be wanting to visit this country!

It is the weekend and I have plans to see some friends, go to the movies and also if you are interested in architecture there is an Open House Zürich. There are opportunities to visit different buildings, houses and museums for free!

Have a great weekend!

Bucharest, Romania Part 1

For the Easter break I went to Bucharest with my friend Arlene, driving is not for the faint hearted and our taxi ride from the airport was quite an experience!

I did not know much about Bucharest before we were there, I did read lots of blogs about the city and of people who had visited the city so that helped me a bit. I guess most of them mention that the city is not the prettiest of cities! And to be honest it turned out to be true, lots of rundown buildings and not much colour!

Little by little we managed to find some areas that looked cool with bar, cafes and interesting shops. The Romanian people were always were nice and helpful when we got a bit lost or when we spoke in shops and restaurants. By the end of our trip we decided to call Bucharest edgy and gritty which we thought was quite positive!

My parents are here visiting at the moment and on Sunday we had a lovely day visiting Säntis mountain and the next few days will be quite busy too!

Hope everyone had a lovely 1st of May day!