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| The side of the street in which it is situated is modern but the other side is, well, a throw back to the days of communism! I would have liked longer in Bucharest but did my best in the short time available. I settled in the evening for the area around Piata Revolutiei and Piata Universitatii and enjoyed the impressive buildings by both dusk and |
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night and also found a memorial to December 1989 when the Ceausescus were overthrown. Bucharest is referred to as the Paris of the East and it was easy to see why. The following morning, I saw the hugely impressive Parliament Palace before running out of time and returning to the hotel to check out. I had a bit of a scare as I left. I had tried to print out my boarding pass for the BlueAir flight back to Luton but, due to difficulties, this is not possible for people travelling to the UK and so check-in is at the airport. But which airport? I had booked to return from Baneasa, which is closer to the centre, only to see on my aborted boarding pass receipt that it was |
suddenly the main airport at Otopeni. Normally, I would have noticed this but the times were the same and, whilst everything worked out fine, I can't remember receiving an email of the change of airport. Anyway, the three hour flight back was comfortable, on time and BlueAir moved me to a legroom seat and didn't ask anything for it.
Romania was interesting and, whilst mine was a whistle-stop trip, it was thoroughly worthwhile. |
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