{"id":11880,"date":"2013-10-29T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11880"},"modified":"2013-10-29T20:27:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:27:15","slug":"bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11880","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6178.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11882\" alt=\"1-IMG_6178\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6178-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6178-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_6178.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>After all the biking I&#8217;m pleased to have settled in one hotel \u00a0for 5 nights. The Rembrandt is perfect in many ways;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/my-result\/3065673128\">really fast, internet<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>Amazingly good breakfasts with unlimited gorgeous coffee and fresh fruit salad \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Spacious room with desk to work at.<\/li>\n<li>Great staff<\/li>\n<li>Best location, step out into downtown old town through a great cafe.<br \/>\nNotice I&#8217;ve left out the shower, it&#8217;s OK but not high power or step in, well there has to be something \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only problem is that it&#8217;s very full so I have to move on tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I really like Bucharest it is a compact city, \u00a0lots of culture (yet to be fully explored eg Opera, concerts, museums et)c An excellent mix of refurbed old, &amp; ultramodern cafe&#8217;s with a real beat, \u00a0olde worlde charm, eclectic shops plus a rawness with the graffiti, redevelopment areas, artist squatter communities. \u00a0Oh and it&#8217;s still relatively cheap. This place could be once again one of the great European cities.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I had a serendipitous experience bumping into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendoorstravel.com\">Mihai<\/a> on one of his free guided walking tours around the city &amp; his excellent introduction into the lost skills of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impalement\">impaling <\/a>a victim by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vlad_the_Impaler\">Vlad the impaler<\/a>\u00a0plus a lot more modern history on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989\">1989 revolutio<\/a>n, beer in Romania etc etc<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11881\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11881\" alt=\"Graffiti made with Tippex\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7148-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7148-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7148-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7148.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti made with Tippex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over a lunch \u00a0beer I decided to go on his partner&#8217;s Simona&#8217;s excellent \u00a0afternoon&#8217;s Alternative Tour taking in graffiti &amp; very cool artist&#8217;s cafes. Highly recommended to see a city that is on the edge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11883\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11883\" alt=\"Mihai loving doing the bike tour.\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-IMG_7191-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mihai loving doing the bike tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also signed up and did the Bike Tour of Bucharest (well I did have my bike) If you haven&#8217;t<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0&#8216;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">\u00a0already cycled 3000 miles to get here then it would be an excellent introduction into cycling in a city not geared up for cycling. \u00a0The parks you go through are all very beautiful and its excellent to learn how the prominent statues change with each\u00a0<\/span>leadership<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">; Nazism,\u00a0<\/span>Communism<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">,\u00a0<\/span>Democracy. plus of course lots of other great info. Both tours excellent \u00a0and highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Today whilst walking to\u00a0Decathlon Berceni. \u00a0I suddenly realised that all Nicolae Ceau\u015fescu&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0grand plan of huge buildings, broad streets etc so reminded me of \u00a0my visits to Dubai in fact I reckon they must have used the same architect.<\/p>\n<p>So as you can tell I really like Bucharest \ud83d\ude42 Tomorrow, Im going with Mihal on his two day Green Way walking tour to Transylvania \u00a0exploring\u00a0Zarnesti,\u00a0Magura,\u00a0Bran castle &amp;\u00a0Brasov.<\/p>\n<p>There pictures of Bucharest <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5939129683205680305\">Saturday<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5939507744713295201\">Sunday<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5939914885314295009\">Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>here is a collage of cabbages made from <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111882957452855371846\/albums\/5940263898221159425\">today&#8217;s (Tuesday) pictures:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-2013-10-29-Bucharest-Day4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11887\" alt=\"1-2013-10-29 Bucharest Day4\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-2013-10-29-Bucharest-Day4.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-2013-10-29-Bucharest-Day4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-2013-10-29-Bucharest-Day4-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1-2013-10-29-Bucharest-Day4-768x200.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the biking I&#8217;m pleased to have settled in one hotel \u00a0for 5 nights. The Rembrandt is perfect in many ways; Fast, really fast, internet, Amazingly good breakfasts with unlimited gorgeous coffee and fresh fruit salad \ud83d\ude42 Spacious room with desk to work at. Great staff Best location, step out into downtown old town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-blog","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}