As you may have guessed if you’ve seen my previous reports, if I have only a short time in a location I like to use structured tourism to maximise that time. As I have spent so much time in Bucharest recently I’ve taken most of the tours and now it is the much more unpredictable method of tourism by wandering around. This normally involves me following my nose into areas I have not visited before with very mixed results. It also means that the routes taken can be highly bizarre to an outside observer with many twists and turns, backtracking, and walking in circles, which is exactly what has happened today. After a two hour strollI found myself a few meters from the Radisson which was all the excuse I needed to stop off for a beer.





One of the things that never fails to strike me in Bucharest centre is the juxtaposition between the older architecture and the more brutalist buildings from the recent past.







And a small flavour of other parts of this lovely city