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They call Bucharest the "Paris of the east", or at least they used to.
It's got an "Arcul de Triumf", but that's where the similarity ends.
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| Ceausescu was booed as he gave a speech from this balcony on 21/12/1989.
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| Street fighting ensued. This building on the other side of the square (now Revolution Square) is covered in bullet marks.
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| The National Art Museum on Revolution Square - formerly the royal palace.
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Nearly all the cars in Bucharest seem to be these Dacia cars.
Most of them however, aren't stuffed full of cushions (a theft deterrent?).
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| People in England complain about the odd mobile phone mast...
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| The Natural history museum
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| Looking out across Bucharest at night.
It's so dark!
Even down at street level on the main roads it's very dark.
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