Summer Vacation - Week 5 - Bucharest Arrival

The next three weeks are going to be a combination of Romania, Bulgaria and back to Romania again.  We will be picking up a car and driving all over the place.   I would like to assure you the roads are in excellent shape and its easy driving, but we've been told to expect just the opposite.  However, Raquel seems to be a great co-pilot and Lily's sense of direction is actually pretty awesome so we will be in great shape.

Our first day in Bucharest started off excellent.  We had an amazing breakfast at the boutique hotel we are staying out with a full spread of all breakfast foods imaginable.  Plus the juice was fresh squeezed and incredibly sweet.  Wse followed that up with showers and Lily and Raquel wrapping themselves in the nicely provided robes and slippers.  Then we were off for a self walking tour of Bucharest and the old town.  What an interesting place.  The architecture itself is so varied.  The mix of old, new and communist influence in the middle makes this place truly original.  The weather was hot (low 90s) so it was a bit much with the miles of walking but luckily we got to come back to a nicely air conditioned hotel room.  What an adventure.

Tomorrow we are off to the Black Sea resorts near Varna.  And that is were we will call home base for about 9 days.  I'm looking forward to a little pool time.

Lily enjoying the hotel supplied robes and slippers (maybe a couple sizes too big for her, but what the heck)

A sampling of architecture around Bucharest