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Published On: Feb 11, 2008 11:27 PM
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Published On: Feb 11, 2008 11:27 PM
First Saturday and Sunday
catch up, shop and explore
Saturday, Shopping,
Alex drove us out to the Giant Blue Swedish Place where you get all your cheap bits and pieces for the apt that only has 3 of the basics in the cupboards. If there hadn't been so many overly dressed women with shiny bits attached to their black clothes I could have been in the Giant blue Swedish store in Oakland, its just the same down to the food in the restaurant and the buns on the way out the door.
Electronics store next, printer/copier purchase, success , moving on.
Grocery store, always fun in a foreign market, funny names for products, colorful packaging, cheerios in a bag etc, ordered meat from the deli counter, very brave.
back to the apts.
Took a walk down Calea Victoriel,......insert text from tourist site........... Calea Victoriei is Bucharest's oldest and arguably, most charming street. Built in 1692 to link the Old Princely Court to Mogosoaia Palace, it was initially paved with oak beams. The street became Calea Victoriei in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence victory. Between the two world wars, Calea Victoriei developed into one of the most fashionable streets in the city.......end text....... you can see the many layers of architecture in this city right on this street, from the early to mid 1800's right up to the oppressive Ceausescu era apartment buildings, so many beautiful old structures just wasting away. and others restored and maintained as government or civic buildings, The Plaza where old Ceausescu was shot is a popular spot, as is the giant oppressive Parliament building which is not actually on this street, it is apparently the second biggest building in the world next to the Pentagon ( square footage).
here's some of that Architecture , the Central Library
A Freedom Monument ( I think)
fading beauty
An arcade inside the above building
This too
And in an adjacent passage, this arcade straight out of Blade Runner, or not
And the mighty Pile, The Parliament building, wow that is big!
Walked around in a big circle and headed back to the apartments, COLD wind, freezing face, I see why everyone wears a hat,
Spoke with L&L on the ichat video, cool, grabbed a bite with MG,
time to catch up on the sleep.
SUNDAY 10th FEB
Slow start, very slow, managed to catch up on the time zone,jet lag issues, read some, watched some Obama news
went for another exploratory walk, this time in a different direction,
check this out, sort of spooky looking!
A fixer upper for sale
Let sleeping dogs lie, they were all fast asleep, all tucked up
and a touch of the old cubism in a modern world
BRrr freezing cold by the end of the walk, a few snow flurries and back to the apt to watch the game,
and heres L &L on the video hook up watching the game too!
Sporting the colors.
and thats about it, caught up and ret ta go for Monday!!!!!
ciao
Alex drove us out to the Giant Blue Swedish Place where you get all your cheap bits and pieces for the apt that only has 3 of the basics in the cupboards. If there hadn't been so many overly dressed women with shiny bits attached to their black clothes I could have been in the Giant blue Swedish store in Oakland, its just the same down to the food in the restaurant and the buns on the way out the door.
Electronics store next, printer/copier purchase, success , moving on.
Grocery store, always fun in a foreign market, funny names for products, colorful packaging, cheerios in a bag etc, ordered meat from the deli counter, very brave.
back to the apts.
Took a walk down Calea Victoriel,......insert text from tourist site........... Calea Victoriei is Bucharest's oldest and arguably, most charming street. Built in 1692 to link the Old Princely Court to Mogosoaia Palace, it was initially paved with oak beams. The street became Calea Victoriei in 1878, after the Romanian War of Independence victory. Between the two world wars, Calea Victoriei developed into one of the most fashionable streets in the city.......end text....... you can see the many layers of architecture in this city right on this street, from the early to mid 1800's right up to the oppressive Ceausescu era apartment buildings, so many beautiful old structures just wasting away. and others restored and maintained as government or civic buildings, The Plaza where old Ceausescu was shot is a popular spot, as is the giant oppressive Parliament building which is not actually on this street, it is apparently the second biggest building in the world next to the Pentagon ( square footage).
here's some of that Architecture , the Central Library
A Freedom Monument ( I think)
fading beauty
An arcade inside the above building
This too
And in an adjacent passage, this arcade straight out of Blade Runner, or not
And the mighty Pile, The Parliament building, wow that is big!
Walked around in a big circle and headed back to the apartments, COLD wind, freezing face, I see why everyone wears a hat,
Spoke with L&L on the ichat video, cool, grabbed a bite with MG,
time to catch up on the sleep.
SUNDAY 10th FEB
Slow start, very slow, managed to catch up on the time zone,jet lag issues, read some, watched some Obama news
went for another exploratory walk, this time in a different direction,
check this out, sort of spooky looking!
A fixer upper for sale
Let sleeping dogs lie, they were all fast asleep, all tucked up
and a touch of the old cubism in a modern world
BRrr freezing cold by the end of the walk, a few snow flurries and back to the apt to watch the game,
and heres L &L on the video hook up watching the game too!
Sporting the colors.
and thats about it, caught up and ret ta go for Monday!!!!!
ciao
Posted: Sun - February 10, 2008 at 11:33 AM