Romania Day 2

Yesterday afternoon we a took a short tour of Bucharest. We toured the 3 main cultural centers of Bucharest, including the Peoples Building (2nd largest administrative building in the world), the medieval center and the religious heart of the city (a beautiful old Orthodox Church). Bucharest is built around a river, with huge boulevards and lots of large buildings. The most amazing thing about the tour was the youth of the architecture, most of the buildings were stone and looked very old, drab and brown, many even looked like they were falling apart. Most of the buildings were built in the last 30 years. When they were built they were simply designed in an older style to create the appearance of old buildings. Historically buildings in Bucharest were made of wood, as a result there were catastrophic fires on a regular basis wiping out huge sections of the city.

Our tour guide was very funny, poor English and extremely odd phrases. She was very informative and I did learn a great deal about the revolution (in 1989) that ended socialism in Romania.
Shockingly we had another all meat dinner, and to clarify I mean all meat. On the large family style plate we could dish up from, we had our choice of bear, turkey, lamb, liver, turkey (or maybe it was chicken), boar, pork and to be honest a few more I am not really sure of. As most of my friends and family know, I am not a big meat eater, let alone sketchy meat cooked in potentially unhygienic standards…bottom line, Romania has been a great step on the road to my pre-baby figure! -kel