The “People’s” Palace
So John and I went to the second biggest building in the world yesterday. The Parliament Palace in Bucharest is Ginormous! Very impressive, with marble everything, huge chandeliers, 1-tonne curtains, etc., etc. etc…. Again, seems like a big waste of money considering they pretty much booted all the people on the town that used to be in that spot in order to build this building… and it’s not like Romania is exactly swimming in money. Regardless, it was pretty sweet to see (even though the tour was very very limited).
After that, we didn’t really see much… we walked along the river that runs through the middle of the city, as well as a collection of fountains in one of the main traffic circles. Ummmmm, yeah… that was about it.
To answer Chris’ comment about the weather, I’d have to say John and I have really lucked out so far (knock on wood). We’ve had amazingly sunny days for 95% of this trip and the rainy days were usually the days we were leaving that city anyway. Today is rainy but we will be boarding our train to Istanbul soon so we won’t be seeing the rain much longer.
Anyway, John and I are really pumped about seeing Istanbul. See you there!
Tags: Europe
cheng.ev
October 16th, 2006 at 9:04 am
JONNY POP!! I hope the trip has been going well…..I noticed you neglected to mention the party/tail situation….so HOW IS IT? Anyways Edmonton is alright , Im moving to whistler in january and might be moving to calgary for a co-op postion in the summer. I hope all is well and talk to you later
October 16th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
you can’t knock on me… I am in Edmonton! haha… ha… (read the blog again… it might be a little funnier) anywho…. it started to snow today 😀 its amazing… I had to wake up early to brush off the snow just to get stuck in traffic… I bet you missed that. Your trip sounds great and is probably only gonna get better I am sure. If you do find a place to upload your pics where are they gonna be?
October 17th, 2006 at 9:07 am
hahaha, Darren, that was so corny… but that’s why I luv ya!