Sat - May 3, 2008

April to May


Big Month, first day of shooting and more

Big deal, its April 19th, we have been here since Feb 5th, we are now 3 days into shooting, and its about to really take off, 8 stages loaded with scenery, 3 in play at once today, makes for a busy day, lots of walking, I really need a bicycle,

Got hauled in by the gendamaria ( special police) during the NATO summit for taking pictures of police vehicles ( accidently) rode in the paddy wagon,to the 10th precinct with sirens blaring through town, was bailed ( rescued ) by the studio rep, 4 hrs later, long story will tell all sometime.

ran into the construction co-ordinator and his brother a couple of sundays ago, they were carrying a case of beer, come on up and have a beer, sure why not, 4hrs and one big family b b q
later,

heres some pics of the Vracu family bbq on the roof terrace in Lipscani









May 3rd,
two full weeks into shooting now, cant really post pictures of the sets as its all a bit secret, although the local crew I am sure have taken loads and who knows where they are sending them.

super busy schedule, the rushes are looking great, costumes,sets, lighting all making a really interesting look to the film. its going to be cool.

thats all I got for now,

Ciao


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Sun - March 16, 2008

March is Ladies Month


Bunraku is boomimng

Here in good old Romania, March seems to be for the Ladies, the first weekend in March was a "primavera day" where all the ladies get flowers, single flowers, bunches etc, no matter whether you're married or not the ladies are showered with flowers and little glass buables and shiny things, lots of roadside stands selling all the goods, big deal here, an appreciation of ladies day, pretty good I'd say.

then this weekend another one, more like mothers day I think, we see people selling poplar trees and pine trees ( xmas) on the side of the road, not quite as nice as flowers and shiny things but still a gift non the less, the ladies still get flowers too,

Things are really starting to move along at the studio, we have 4 sets on three stages and a fourth stage firing up Monday,

another week passes.................ziiipp



I am very slack on the bLog lately, I knew it would get this way, not much free time, when it comes, its nice to lay down and stare at the ceiling.............ahhhhh.

Sundays are the Day off, and last week was the Birthday, which was odd to spend it here and on my own, I did have a nice long video chat with the L's.
Today is Sunday again and i'm going for a walk ,probably with MG, and we'll head west maybe?

here's some pictures from the last trek

this escalator was not working, there are a few like this, call Mr Otis.




Here is the Bucurest Mall, not much to say about it really, small crowded, full of people shopping, universal really. ( lots of Perfume on the ground floor)





Forget the "subway "tiles , these are cool, Anne Sachs take note




LIPSCANI neighbourhood....now then this place looks like WW2 but its cool, lots of little bars and retuarants, its definitely the area where the "cool" kids hang out, there's skateboard shops, and "leather" wear,

art shops, small galleries, a bar called the "offside" which has football on all the time, its a warren of little narrow streets and its coming back to life after much neglect as you can see.








THE DACIA, the ONLY car you could have under the communists, there are two doors, four doors, no doors, pick ups, trailers, horse drawn version, and many discarded ones,
now you can buy what you want.








cool kids hang out in this arcade , I took a picture of this place a while back, but now its warmer , people sit outside, this other building , is where they put caucescue ( spelling) against the wall and shot him





cool building



thats it for today

more to come,, will have stage pictures next week

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Sun - March 2, 2008

Catching up Feb 26th to Friday 29th


Leap-Primavera and flowers

Back to grind on Tuesday, schedules, construction and all ,as usual, very tricky this one, limited time, limited stage space, lots of scenery not much time to build scenery or turn it around, anyway this is all part of the deal.
Its moving along finally, money is lowing and we're in on two fronts and by the time I finish posting this it will be four stages building.

we are officially busy,

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Munchen and more, February 22nd -25th


ITS ALL SO NEAT AND TIDY

I am a bit behind with the old blog lately, well yes we are making a movie, that definitely takes some time out of our expeditions. so I believe I last posted on Wednesday 20th, ok so here 's the next weeks worth of business.
Spotted the donkey again on Thursday, he is part of the Transpo dept we think, ate in the local restaurant off the studio, not the pizza joint but the "mititea" place, pronounced mit-tit-tay, its a traditional sausage type thing with beef and pork , no doubt fried in something and if you like, served with french fries, the sausage and chips lunch.

I will skip the rest of the studio stuff as its slowwww going , at least it was then ( its not now)

Friday 22nd... yay, early flight ( 7am) to Munich from Bucherest 1/1/2 hr flight got in to Munich at 8am ish, I love time travel (when its useful), and Munich airport, being German and all, is super efficient and organised and clean and everything is working lovely, out of the airport on the S bahn, to the U bahn, and Bobs yer uncle, I am at the hotel having breakfast with the 2 L's by 9am, fan bloody tastic.

So good to see them, they have camp set up , neighbourhood is well canvassed and we are off to explore some more, first stop pastries, cant go to far anywhere in Europe without pastries and coffee.
Jumped on the U bahn down to the Marienplatz to see some giant Glockenschpiely tourist thing, impressive building, lame glockenschpiely thing. wandered around a bit , Lily got the biggest pretzel in the world, she ate it then wore it consumed a lot of it and then I consumed it, then the rest , we tossed.

heres the glockenschpiely thing and the giant pretzel. and some other snaps







We did some other Schnitzel related things that day, and walked up the top of a church to see that view in the picture above, we then headed back to our neighbourhood to eat, it feels abit like the upper west side of NYC where we are staying, a bit , not convinced yet but similar

Next Day, breakfast in the hotel, great coffee machine, good food, yum, heading out to the Deutsches Museum to see some old German things,

WELL!!! lots of great things in here, boats and planes and rockets ( V2) ( bad) my dad told me about those, we'll skip that subject for now, great museum, Guttenburg bible, first printing presses etc, I learnt that Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, I though the fuel came first, huh!! who knew?..... highly recommend this museum, next off to the "auto" section of the museum, a bus ride and a walk away.

This place is a car ( and train) paradise, first production petrol car ( benz), amazing collection of german firsts, international cars, the old NSU's trains, wacky bicycles, mopeds, Fiats, buses
just endless, almost too much for one day, in fact it was , we were dead tired, we dragged ourselves back onto the U bahn and back home and ate Sushi wooohoo and then passed out.

cue the museum pictures

most of them are at the auto/train museum, the Guttenburg bible is cool but it's in a drawer covered in glass and ......well the Messeschmit is right there ....






theres a ton more pictures, I will post them all to another site soon


Ok, so Sunday, we go for a stroll in the Englischer Gardens, big open park near our neighborhood, bit like central park, now it feels even more like the upper west side in the 70's.
anyway, usual joggers and such, and bicycles did I mention bicycles?, everywhere, special lanes on the sidewalks, special lanes on the crosswalks, don't get in their way ....its trouble, you will get run down.
Back to the park, lovely day very sunny, we head over to the lake, we see these signs with Mother and daughter walking side by side ( special lanes for mothers?) anyway L2 decides that on these paths this is how you must walk, as things are very orderly and organised here, this must be the way.


Funny walks aside we head to the lake for some pedal boat action, and then into the Beer garden.....yes, it seems that Sundays in the Beer gardn is very very traditional, almost religious I would say, hundreds of people , getting giant beers 1/2 chickens big sausages/ pretzels, pate, odd meat things, and giant beers, I have to say I could go for some of this on a Sunday back in the US, could be a thing....

heres me an Lil at the lake side beer garden


and then we wandered over to the "chinese pagoda" beer garden





Packed, gotta love those germans , ooompah bands and all at this one, great family fun, and oh did I mention the giant Beers,

we like Munich,
Later Sunday, Lil and I headed off to some distant pub to watch the Carling cup final, both being die hard chelsea fans, we were ultimately disappointed in the 2-1 loss, and trudged our way back to the hotel, Italian food for din and then, sleeeep

Monday, last day in Munchen for me, I am back to Bucherest this evening at 9pm, so we wander about , buy an english newspaper to get some news, saw this arc de triumph ( every city seems to have one)



except this one still has WW2 damage on the sides and front




more of this type thing later.....in Bucherest

did some shopping, and more wandering about, back to the hotel packed up,
had to say a tough good buy to the 2 L's , very hard indeed, they will be back in a few weeks, to Bucherest next time.

down the U bahn to the S bahn, check in at a machine at the airport foyer, straight to the passport control, (no stamp) and to the gate , man thats efficient and so neat and tidy too.
( BTW Frankfurt airport is the complete opposite)

arrived in Bucherest at -00-15 Tuesday

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Wed - February 20, 2008

Wed 20th February


What weekend was that? its Wednesday already!

Well the end of last week flew by and then there was the weekend, we are going to be workin' Saturdays very soon, however, we havn't really started yet.
There are some issues which I am told are being dealt with and will be resolved very soon, so we can make some steam and get out of port.....so to speak, so when that happens , Saturdays are ON.

anyway Friday night looked like this , at about 4pm, it got whiter outside, then by 6-0pm, it looked like this outside the window



a bit later when we were leaving it was like this



AND THIS



then








It took us 2 hrs top get back to Bucherest, it usually takes 45 mins, not so many snow ploughs, ...say no more

and here the day after, glorious sunshine and freeezing cold



Saturday, I moved apartments, down the hall, moved into a slightly bigger space, much better, esp for the next 5 months, I have a balcony I can jump off of, if need be.

I have a TV in the bedroom and the living room, thats living, what's odd is that I get different channels in the bedroom to the living room, ahh yes , thats Bucuresti

chatted with the 2 L's, getting exited to see them in Munich next weekend.

Sunday took a Subway ride and a walk back across what we think was the east side of town, basically the Metro is small, but reminds me of The TTC in Toronto, but with a more Eastern bloc flair, ( Spaz will tell you that Toronto is the Eastern Bloc)

saw this lovely big tree in a neighborhood, I am sure everything will look much nicer with Green leaves on everything


did Adolf Loos build this ? I now realise the bigger pictures are much better, will fix that in the next post.



and finally here we are back in business
at Media Pro with one of our sets marked out on stage with MG and Adi holding up some poles, I think it might actually be starting,
these pictures were taken on Tuesday, I'll get back to you on Friday with some more

its Western Town by the way , in case you couldn't tell






thats about it,
buna sera

learning Romanian daily and will no doubt be bi-lingual by the end of the show


oh and we saw this last night walking back from La papi restaurant.





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Thu - February 14, 2008

Its Thursday already!!!!


zipping along

Can't hardly believe its Thursday already, Valentines day, miss my girls back home, have been very busy all week.

Ate out at a restaurant last night we had eaten in at the weekend, had the most surly waiter, obviously did not like foreigners , ignored us for so long, then finally we got to ask for menu's , he brought one only, ten minutes later, he comes back says "so what you want", then after that is was not so bad , just slow, and of course surly.

Almost over the jet lag and into some normal kind of sleep patterns, get to have an ichat on video most days at 5-30 pm Romania time, when the L's are getting up and eating breakfast, then another at 6-45am Rom time when I am eating breakfast. its all about breakfast on video.

have taken to feeding the dogs on the lot with bread from the commissary, however some are not interested in it, it seems they are holding out for something better, the house cats got real scraps today from the cleaning ladies, chicken bones and all, they loved it.

walking back from lunch we saw a donkey strolling around the lot, just passing through I guess.



we are going to start building sets very soon,........Monday ?, we hope

thats all I got for now.

ciao

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Sun - February 10, 2008

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

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Monday 11th February


Here We Go!

This week is the real kick off, All kinds of people are starting up , Accountants, co-ordinators, draftsman, construction, probably some more men with big coats and funny hats to help watch whats going on.

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Fri - February 8, 2008

Friday 8th Feb


A Quiet one

Well, today after waking up at 4-15 am ( I was convinced I had the jet lag beaten) not so, I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't sleeping again and watched some Tv, Mostly Romanian talk show re runs and BBC/CNN/SKY news cycles.
Amy Winehouse was refused a visa, shame, but she should get cleaned up before she goes on stage again so as not to embarrass herself, she has an amazing voice and I love her but she should calm it down a little.

No ALex the driver this morning, new guy , very quiet, nice and polite, had the Romanian look, jet black hair ,pony tail, black leather car coat, you know that look.

Met with our Project supervisor/construction co-ordinator this morning, Magdalena she rocks, it was like having your mum or your aunt talking about construction for an hour, I have to say I can see that she will be the boss of the construction teams.

MG and I fired up and old FPD tradition today, the beer lunch on a Friday, we had the driver take us off site to the local pizzeria, Romana Pizzaria definitely the locals spot, full menu, good beer and tasty food,
see look.


I believe we will know all the waitresses by first name by the end of the show,they seemed amused by our accents and our attempts at Romanian, might be the only place around here ( Buftea) that you can get a salad and giant calzone!.

Still having face plant issues could have something to do with the above images and stella for lunch, but I know its jet lag really.
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Took a ride in a golf cart today to look at some stages, brrrr chilly out there,

super duper tired, got to go.

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Thu - February 7, 2008

New Day


Thursday 7th Feb

Well a couple of notes from yesterdays report, It turns out that the cute Lamb in the bag trick is employed by many panhandlers in this part of the world, so while not uniquely Romanian it was however a first for me, still very white and cute though.

And Ceausescu well yes he does have a lot to answer for, I did however realize he was put up against a wall and shot and killed, so thats something.


Today we got a coffee machine, we did ask for one and I expected to get a good old Black and decker drip number, but low and behold we got this bad boy,



whilst walking back from the commissary today after some fine cuisine, polenta and some cabbage/beef sort of baked thingy, which was actually pretty tasty,

I noticed that here at the studio, trumpets are banned .

so there, take that Wynton Marselis


I asked one of the locals, what's up with the trumpet rules,

he had no answer, just gave me this look.

had my usual 5-15pm chat with L&L who were just waking up, both MG and I were having trouble not doing face plants on the desks today at around 6-30pm, the jet lag is just wicked sometimes.

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Wed - February 6, 2008

Really....its 3-30am?


Wednesday

Yup , knew it, 3-30am wide awake, happened last time, oh well, at least I have CNN- Wolf Blitzer and "the best political team on television" to keep me company, Its still Super Tuesday in the US and well its sort of interesting for ten minutes when all you want to do is sleep....................three attempts to return to the land of nod, no success back to Wolf and yes Obama has Delaware and Idaho, how did he win Idaho?
what's funny is both Sky and the BBC have their own Super Tuesday shows with Pundits who sort of know what they are talking about but not really, they of course wish they had "the best Political team on television" . I can only assume that in Wolf's contract its states he has to repeat that phrase every 5.5 minutes. Enough.
Two more chapters of Cindy's book, Girls 101 and the alphabet, very interesting. now its 6-30 am, ok time to get going.

Meet MG ( art director) for some brekky in the hotels buffet dealio bistro,
pretty good, almost the full english, Romanian style.


7-45am overcast grey and cold outside the Centreville ( mini apartments) apartments built for small people, enough said.
driver is late.....Traffic no doubt, I call to ask where he might be, he shows up,it was traffic,
8-15am, hit the rush hour traffic, not too bad, Raging Romanian disco on the radio....big euro beat.....

Ceausescu images.jpeg

has a lot to answer for he pretty much destroyed this place, giant ugly concrete apartment buildings blocks long


and the general raping of the country, remaking it in his own vision ( whatever that was) It seems the Russians helped a lot too.



this place ( below) is some kind of factory industrial facility , which makes or produces.............?


Speaking of the Russians they built Media Pro studios, to make Happy Russian movies in the 50's and now we are here to make our movie.

Paramount Pictures its not,

It looks a bit like it ....? maybe.......well at least its white.

Everything here has a "patina" , except stage 8b, which is brand new and super duper nice, and stage 12b will be like that too ( when they finish it) hope they finish soon as we need it.

we took an office today, and got internet, and coffee, and a phone, whoo hoo and it works too.



walked around a bit checked a few things out, just like the airport there are lots of men in big coats and funny hats standing around, these men however are not looking for taxi work , they seem to be watching other men work, its the norm as far as I can tell, three guys working and four watching, I think its shift work, that way they all get to play.

Lunch time, Smoke filled cafeteria, odd looking sample dishes, not ready for that stuff yet, need to get my immune system up first,
stick with the sandwich and "chicken" flavour chips much safer......oh and of course the 2 litre bottle of Orangina,....because when in Romania.........


back to the office, actual work taking place today...........schedules..........schedules and more schedules, and some insights into the inner workings of the studio,
for instance, Alex our driver, who as you might remember was late this morning, traffic, he is the subject of an "incident file" a nasty looking sheet of paper with all sorts of boxes with check marks and times and dates and potential torture measures written in Romanian.
I was asked to sign it !! , I balked of course and wanted to know what was going to happen to him if I did, the presenter of the paper said it was policy and that they had had some trouble with drivers lately, Alex has been nothing but punctual every time except this morning ( traffic). I was told I had to sign it and I asked if it was the call that I made this morning looking for him that had prompted this "incident file" and yes he said thats why, but I had to sign it and he was adamant, so I did and immediately got on the phone to the "boss" who said that he was not going to be in trouble, or tortured or persecuted in any way,
Michael thinks as we have not seen him since this morning and he is tied up in the basement with cigarette burns on his arms.
Lets hope hope shows up to take us back to town.

There are lots of stray dogs in Romania, Bucuresti has many, the out lying areas have lots, they all seem to be well fed, and just get along ok, they are of course a bit dirty, and have their own territory, they don't harass you if you dont harass them, at the studio there are many, I think by the time we are finished we will have one of our own as we are dog lovers and they will figure that out and this building will be popular, we also have a house cat, who is a bit shy right now but will come around I am sure.


and the final animal note of the day, last night when walking back from dinner, MG and I were hit up by the customary street "panhandlers" , an only in Romania moment happened when a young girl carrying a lamb in a bag ( large purse size bag) asked for money, well the lamb was white as snow and very real and cute too, I am not sure if her name was Mary but she was persistent, but as I said before we were told not to talk to strangers or give them money, I was tempted.......

still no Alex, MG is going to the basement to look for him




7-45pm
Alex arrives to pick us up, no scars or burns, turns out Alex was outside the hotel bistro at 7-45 am, but parked across the street.......Not Traffic at all.

power nap in car, hit the market, supplies, good to go, back to smallville.





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Mon - February 4, 2008

Bunraku hits Bucuresti


Getting There

Feb 4th
San Francisco-to Chicago
Monday am.
Ouch.....4-45 am pick up to go to SFO, I opted for the Black sedan service, the regular Marin airport shuttle is a tad unreliable and all the cabs in Marin well they smell like Toronto cabs in the winter, go there and smell for yourself, its not good. So comfort and reliability this morning just the smell of German leather and 740 am news all the way to SFO.

Apparently you can only check in or fly to Romania with an itinerary that does not exceed 90 days, anything over 90 days you need a visa, so changed the return leg and hit the security line, ahh....TSA, well what's to say, not the sharpest tool in the shed, looks good, so I guess it serves some purpose.
coffee,yoghurt,coffee.

7-45am, take off, guy next to me says nothing all flight, I said nothing to him, so that was that.



landing, snowy Chi-town-1-30pm

Chicago to Frankfurt

2-30pm, triple 7 , not a full flight, empty seat next to me, luvly, more room to stash the newspapers, books,headphones why so much stuff ?.
take off, drinks trolley first pass,...movie selections Michael Clayton, sure why not, Gone baby gone, sure, Bee Movie, yeah ok, Elizabeth, cant beat a Bessie movie, that should pass some time.
Technical difficulties.........movies are not working........Oh well there goes that entertainment opportunity.

Not a problem as I have Miss Cindy Guidry's new book, "The last single woman in America", Cindy's an old friend from (her) days in San Francisco. Read about 120 pages , hard to put down, just hilarious and I want more, will finish it later today....possibly.
meal, drinks trolley round 2 and 3, nap, , four hours left, read, work for an hour, nap, freshen up, breakfast, coffee

landed

Frankfurt-5-30am Tuesday
call home, very happy 10 year old on the phone, caught her just before bed, spandex 23, bubble butt ( code)
Arrivals lounge, nap maybe?, not slept very much, its about 9pm SF time so I can go a bit longer with out it.

8-20 am still in the arrivals lounge, two bread rolls one coffee and a sparkling water,
lots of headset wearing business types, chit chatting, tried to sleep didn't work, how come other people are doing it, slumped over in their chairs I am gonna try again,


still not working for me.....they seem to be able to do it........I'll sleep on the plane.


Frankfurt to Bucharest
10-30am
10-50am, delayed, in the waiting area, Obama and Clinton getting lots of TV time in Deutschland

get on the bus out to the tarmac, wait on the bus, for all the Germanness going on its not very efficient here at Frankunfurter airport.


finally on board, window seat , exit row no seat in front of me, full leg extension ( best seat on the plane), minor problem, gentleman one seat to my left has odour issues, .....................now about that sleep.

maybe 45 mins nap........move clock another hour forward.
sandwich and beir, from very strict German lady in a Lufthansa uniform.



Tuesday 2-20 pm

landed....in ROMANIA!!!!



Ahh yes, Buchuresti airport .............Passport control, they could be less interested, on to baggage claim, last time I was here the roll of Plans ( drawings) that I had to check got lost somewhere, left behind along the way (Munich)
This time so as not to disappoint , it happens again, I get all my bags but not the plans. fantastic.

Alex the driver meets me in the arrivals area, nice kid (he drove me back in Dec)
we got swarmed ( 3) by " luggage helpers" once outside the terminal, its really quite the scene outside the airport, lots of portly men in coats and funny hats angling for taxi work, gypsy's (I am guessing) doing the "luggage help" thing, basically touching your bags ( bags on luggage cart) on the way to the car not actually lifting or helping, kind of like in Life of Brian where Michael Palin is skipping down the road asking for a shekel for an ex leper but not in a loin cloth and much colder, then once bags are in the car asking for money, fortunately I had no money, no euro, I had a fiver ( pounds) not giving that up and no dollars, he did jack anyway and I was told not to give them any money.

airport parking lot


On to Media Pro Studios in Buftea, 35mins, ahh the back roads, potholes and all.

quick meeting, tour of the office space, and back to the meeting room, coffee, sandwich. and an iChat with the 2 L's
was breakfast time, this ten hour time shift should be interesting.I miss 'em already

6-10pm, heading out soon to Bucuresti proper. and the Centreville apartments.........................

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