Geo: 44.0833, 26.6333Our trip home began with flights to London today, by way of Vienna on Austrian Airlines. However, before we left, the last stop on the tour was to Bucharest, Romania for a drive around the city and a visit to the second largest building in the world, Parliament Palace, aka Ceausescu's Palace. Ceausescu started construction on it in 1984 when many of the people in the country were poor and hungry. He worked on it until his death in the revolution of 1989. The dictator never planned to live in the palace, in fact, he was probably afraid to stay there. He installed ventilation holes in the ceiling in case anyone tried to murder him with poisonous gases. Ceausescu simply wanted a showpiece. And it is showy, including the one million cubic meters of
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