Bucharest

Bucharest is a fast-paced, modern city with an amazing mix of old and new style architecture. You see old monasteries and crumbling stone buildings alongside modern office structures. We saw a glass encased building which looked like it was constructed on top of an old stone wall. You can really see the mix of old and new world in this city.


The imposing Palace of Parliament is the second largest administrative building in the world. Anyone know which is the largest? No cheating with Google! An entire suburb was levelled, and about 70,000 people displaced in order to build the parliament in the 1980’s. Yasmin and Roya agreed that it was not a very nice thing to do. Then we told them what happened to Ceausescu and his wife during the revolution!




We walked around a park near our hotel and stretched our legs after a long day of driving. The kids were happy to run around and play a little, and we even got some ice cream because it was about 36 degrees!

After supper, we went for a walk to Revolution Square and admired the mix of old and new buildings and the monuments. One monument looked like a bird’s nest pierced by an obelisk.

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