Monday, 27 April
The itinerary tells us that Bucharest's "wide, tree-lined boulevards and Arc de Triomphe - built in 1922 to honour the bravery of Romanian soldiers who fought in WWI - have gained it the name 'Paris of the East.' "
In the morning we will be a doing a tour which includes an extra excursion to see the Parliament Building (second largest building in the world).
My friend Mr Wikipedia tells me that:
Romania ... [is] located in Southeastern-Central Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine. It also borders Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova....With its 19.9 million inhabitants, it is the seventh most populous member of the European Union....
The Danube River, which is Europe's second longest river after the Volga, rises in Germany and flows southeastwards for a distance of 2857 km course through ten countries before emptying in Romania's Danube Delta. Some of its 1075 km length bordering the country drains the whole of it. The Carpathian Mountains (the tallest peak is Moldoveanu at 2544 m, 8346 ft) cross Romania from the north to the southwest.Also of importance (and from the same source) I have noted that the average high temperature in Bucharest for April is 18 degrees (64 F). We should be okay with that. Let's not talk about the low temperature. Gary can just stay inside at night if it's that cold!
Later this afternoon we trundle off in a bus to board the boat at Fetesti (Bucharest being probably a very nice place but not actually on the Danube River). Fetesti is on the Borcea branch of the Danube.
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| Bucharest to Fetesti by bus |
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