4 th of July Bucharest

Not that much sleep tonight, are up an awake very early. Our train get delayed with 2 hours so we don't reach Bucharest train station until 9 a.m. The idea is to get out of the train station as fast as possible and find the Ibis hotel that should be close by. Actually I'm a little nervous I don't think we ever find the Ibis hotel not with our bad map reading. But inside the station we see signs that says Ibis this way. We follow the signs and a couple of blocks away we find it, wow. Today we're lucky as "hell". Its weekend and all the business people has left so we get a special weekend price. First price- Both find a hotel and get a good deal. I'll bet we get it back tomorrow all the good luck turns in to bad luck... And even though check in time is 2 p.m. we get to check in before 10 a.m. The rooms are nice and after an even nicer shower we're out for lunch. After lunch we head for The Palace of the Parliament. On our way we see a lot of downtown Bucharest It's not such a nice city. Lots of holes in the sidewalk and beware of all the straydogs.






The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauşescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. It has 1100 rooms, 12 stories tall and has 2 underground parking lots. Nicolae Ceauşescu's and his wife never got to live here before they were executed in 1989. Today it's the home of the Romanian parliament.

A dark photo from the inside. I wasn't alowd to take any photos for that you needed to have a permisson. The remains of the dictator and his wife are at the Ghencea graveyard. They are buried in seperated graves because they made so much evil together so they should forever be separated. During the regime of Ceausescu abortion and contraception were abolished. From 1983 it became the duty of every woman to produce a minimum of 5 children. The result - the unwanted children of the orphanages and horrific deaths from back street abortions...

Taken from the balcony inside the building.
After this tour of the House of parliament we head back to the hotel for some rest. Later in the evening we take a metro to a shopping center for dinner.

The capital of Romania Bucharest...All the historical houses got demolished and instead Ceausescu wanted it to look like this. Goodnight tomorrow is another day...