Bucharest, Romania
September 25th 2004 I spent 4 days in Bucharest. Interesting place? Although just becoming part of the European Union, it looked like it was stuck in the 1920s. Just 15 minutes outside of the capital, there are people burning garbage in a can, old women with thatched sweepers cleaning up leaves, horse drawn buggies with produce...
I stayed in the Sofitel, not far from the airport and arrived on a Thursday and
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