août 2011

On Sunday (the same day as the Muzeul Spiru Haret shock), we took the Bucharest City Tour Bus. It was fun! It really was! 25 RON (expensive in Romanian terms but very reasonable for a tourist) and 10 RON for children under 14 will buy you a ticket for 24 hours. You can hop on and off at each stop and explore the areas of your choice, with distance between buses at 15 minutes or so. We got on at Biserica Cretelescu, Pta Revolutiei, pleased to see there were several other passengers (most of them Romanian) and did the full... [Lire la suite]

As if the previous post isn't bad enough, yesterday brought with it another shock. The same intrepid friend and I decided to take another walk, this time around L.Catargiu. It is full of such beautiful architecture from Berindei to Cerchez and always does one's soul good. Or so we thought. Halfway up the boulevard, we turned off on to str. G.Manu and fell upon number 7, the Muzeul Spiru Haret. I had no idea this was it for I have never been there, never actually seen it except via the superbly written and very... [Lire la suite]

On Saturday, a friend and I decided to take a walk in the Dorobanti area, taking in the beautiful old (and some new) houses, the Zambaccian Museum and the Casa Memoriala George Calinescu nearby in Floreasca. Having checked several sites online for opening hours, we set off to feast our eyes on some of the beauty Romanian patrimony has to offer here in Bucharest - after all, one should profit whilst there are still such wonders left to enjoy.... Since I used to live in Floreasca, I had visited this wonderful,... [Lire la suite]