Some Very Interesting Characters
April 29th 2006 "Forget Prague, forget Budapest, Bucharest is the new backpackers' gem," says the first line in Lonely Planet. Well, the guy who wrote that must have visited an entirely different city than the one we did. Among the "New Pragues" in our guidebook, Bucharest is really the least deserving of the title. This city was completely bled dry by its dictator Ceausescu. We've been to many countries that
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