My Bucharest Romania Guide - please add your own ideas to it!

Any Bucharest Romania guide seems to be really down on the country, putting people off coming. The number of ex-pats - especially those with big book or magazine deals really let it rip about Romania. The weird thing being they never seem to leave - they complain and are generally negative about the place but don't seem to go anywhere which is clearly better.

I find Bucharest a really odd little capital - the longer I am here, the more I really love it. Behind any small alley way door, can lie an entire new world - a bit like Alice in Wonderland -and the only thing stopping anyone knowing about them is the complete lack of signs. This is why I decided it really does need an online Bucharest Romania Guide.

I recently discovered an entire university campus on my doorstep - complete with its own large botanical garden, vineyards and little wooden church. Amazingly, around the church are lots of children's communal toys - never stolen or broken. This could be due of course to the complete lack of other people who have discovered this university - just a few mums pushing prams, a few dad's wobbling dangerously on their roller skates, who are trying to teach a miniature version of themselves to skate and lots of students - who are loaded down every weekend with produce from the countryside.

The university opens its doors once a week to the public to buy organic produce at very high prices. There are people coming -but not many as in Romania only a trusting fool buys milk or cheese off someone they don't know - so it is a group of rich daring risk takers shopping at the market - the rest of us make do with our local sellers in the market.

The huge amount of security scattered around the universities tend to put off the casual explorer, but the guards never leave their booths - unless you happen to be in a car.

Any Bucharest Romania guide worth it's salt will almost certainly guide you towards Herastrau Park - the premier park, in my opinion, in the whole of Bucharest. It is always packed full of people but if you go for a walk around the lake, and away from main eating centers, the crowds dwindle down to an irregular trickle and you are left to enjoy the park n your own. It is a perfectly designed walk as you get to Children's island half way around, where in the summer children can spend hours going down giant inflatables - again this place is often almost empty apart from when I occasionally take my entire year group of 50 children for an outing! Then further around in a clockwise manner, is the children's park with a huge big wheel.

Then it is a long string of drinking holes - selling coke and surprisingly cheap beer to keep you ticking over. Before you know it, you will have crossed the weir and be heading back to little shacks selling ever more sweet Romanian food, leaving your child confused as to if he should be sleeping from so much walking or running around on a major sugar rush!

If you have extremely good luck, you will find the arch de triumph open - it happens about twice a year and it is worth going - no matter what your plans were - as the view from the top is really, really special. You can see for miles and will be surprised at what a beautiful city you live in or are visiting!

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