Bucharest vacation - often known as holiday with the in-laws!

My Bucharest vacation was actually far nicer than I was expecting. I had a week off from school for the half term break and many of my fellow teachers were hightailing it to distant places - I did think about a trip to England, but decided that deserting the family at this precise time was not really fair or ideal.

So I had a staycation or vacation in Bucharest. My wife loved this as all the jobs she had wanted to do, with her newfound freedom from Baby Victor, meant I really was left holding the rather large baby! We had great fun - as he loves staying in people's arms. My parent in laws still worry about him somehow breaking his neck or back - I pointed out as far as we knew, no child ever achieved this without actually being dropped on a hard surface. The best they could come up with was some fully-grown gymnasts neck snapped - I didn't take it particularly seriously.

As my parent in laws have moved from sometime soon leaving into very permanent fixtures - the living room has now been converted into a second bedroom. There is a huge inflatable bed on the floor - then there are two pull out bed sofas - one for each in-law - the second was to give my mother in law change. I am glad we only got it from the cellar, as we humped it up the stairs and rebuilt it, she decided its too hard and she preferred the softer sofa. So lucky I did not buy a new sofa - as recommended by my wife.

They have kind of forgotten they are guests in the home, so while I flat out on my bed, in comes father in law, drops baby on bed, switches on all the lights, and looks surprised when I seem to be rather annoyed at his behaviour. Throughout my Bucharest vacation, the thought of sneaking off, getting a nice hotel room and some sleep was never far off!

It was nice however to leave the little one with his grandparents (who never can decide if they want to spoil or be strict to the child - so generally calls him names and then hug him – for maximum confusion!) and go shopping with just my wife. This is a real holiday treat for us! This is only followed by taking little Victor without a full Romanian escort to the park. He loved sliding down the slide, going on the cool Romanian communist swings - which come complete with a comfy back and being slowly spun around on the roundabout. The in-laws were convinced his spine would shatter like glass - again without actually being able to name a single child this has ever happened to.

The odd thing about my Bucharest vacation was it was more tiring to constantly correct amazingly stupid Romanian ideas than teaching 15 second language students. I actually came back to school more tired than when I left it!

The only other jobs needing to get done as to tour doddery old ladies who cook food for us - then call to inform us of the fact and can we pick it up.

After this, I ended up having to politely chat to some ex-pat Romanians who come back to the country, uncertain why anyone still lives here to visit the family. They chatted to me in very slow, very clear English, like you would to someone not quite all there - confirming my belief that I could get a more fun conversation from a funny eight year old than a 28 year old Romanian!

So don't despair if you have a week in Bucharest - it could be worse - you could share them with my in-laws for company! Tell me more about your Bucharest vacation. Was it as you expected it to be?

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