Blogs from Muntenia, Romania, Europe - page 7

PRIMUL EXAMEN CAMBRIDGE PE CALCULATOR IN PITESTI a fost organizat de centrul nostru!!! Dupa indelungate consultari cu British Council, am reusit sa sustinem primul CB (computer-based) FCE in Pitesti pe 9 iunie 2012 - proba de Speaking si 16 iunie - probele Reading, Writing, Use of English si Listening. A fost senzational, o experienta unica pentru copii si pentu organizatori!! Speram ca acesta sa fie primul dintr-un lung sir de examene CB organizate de centrul nostru in Pitesti!!!! The first computer-based Cambridge exam in Pitesti was a huge success. Despite not being easy to organise, our center has successfully coped with the pressure of organising a Cambridge ESOL event and met the strict requirements of British Council. Our lovely and very enthusiastic 12 candidates that signed up for this great feat were very pleased with the ... read more

May 27 .... Arrived in the city of Bucharest late in the evening and after asking two people, found the IBIS Hotel. There is one of these in almost every city and they can be trusted to be nice. After a much needed shower, ate peasant veg soup and desert but no coffee after my 18 hour fast... well almost ... cannot count that white bread with one slice ham one slice cheese I bought while the train was standing forever at a spot in Bulgaria. The room is excellent with TV and WiFi. To get to the room one has to go thru two security locks... one to the corridor and then the one into the actual room ..... shades of Cuba from ages ago .. there in the 70's cubans could not come upstairs ... read more

Geo: 44.4479, 26.0979Having left Marta's beautiful Hungarian hospitality we were on the road again. This time, on the road again for a loooonnnngg time. It was to be a ten hour truck day. We stopped at a supermarket to spend the remainder of our Forits on Haribo mainly... our usual border routine ..... and soon crossed into Romania. This was the first proper border control we experienced, with stern faced, uniformed, eastern European guards entering the truck requiring passports. Yet still no stamp to document this adventure! Silly European passport. Although they will come soon enough!!!... read more

The hotel was so little. It only had 4 rooms. We had this bread that was so good with cinammon. We went to a park with old houses and played house. We ate in the hunting room of Dracula's Restaurant. - Sofia It was time to leave the medieval towns of Transylvania and Dracula and get back to Bucharest to catch our flight the next day. As we had not spent anytime in the city on our arrival, daddy thought it would be a good idea to get there early to have at least 1/2 day in the capital. So after a few hour drive from Hotel Dracula in Capatatenii near Dracula's real castle, we arrived in Bucharest. We stayed at a very cute hostel/Bed and Breakfast called Vila Gabriela in Otopeni less than 2 km ... read more

Whether his intention was to enhance his own personal glory, or the glory of the party, or perish the thought even the glory of the Romanian people; Ceausescu left the capital city of Romania a far different place than it was before he came to power. Bucharest was at the centre of his grand obsession to outdo the French, with it's main boulevard built slightly larger than the Champs D'Elysees, and the Arch of Triumph also larger than the famous Paris attraction. The sheer scale of the work recently undertaken in Bucharest may never be matched in Europe, and could only have occurred under a communist dictator. Sixty thousand houses were flattened and their tenants evicted to clear the land for the Palace of Parliament, with matching architecture in the new buildings lining the three kilometre ... read more