Day 2: Bucharest - Street Art tour, Opening tour Dinner

Street Art Tour: DB found this tour, and somehow nobody else did, so we had our guide to ourselves. It was perfect! A greegrees day, sunny and cool to start, warming up during our three hours, well  paced (slow), and a way to learn a bit about what before and after the 1989 fall of the wall meant for Romanians (though our guide was born in 1994). THB, as always, is going to annotate through pics and brief captions. 

 THB opts for cereal and yogurt - no bowls or berries 

one bowl is found, then much later the staff has found more

it is marathon day and car-free day

Elon is fanous the world-round

some work is commissioned, some not

some street artists make stickers to spread around town

this "angel" is made on paper and then pasted on with flour and water mixture

this pig has been done over 600 times

our second one

THB thought this was #1 today, real contemporary art

indication of cable TV

forget-me-not is in bloom

THB's #2

real street art!

artichoke design

role reversal, not culling the bears is creating new problems

Count Dracula and Bram Stoker share a meal

THB's #3: context is what happens when the church decides to censor the street artists

Tour opening dinner: nothing special, violin/piano duo plays between main course and dessert and THB sits next to an orthopedic hand specialist from Chicago and gets an analysis of his ails and woes. Next time he will sit on other side of Dr D and get his left palm read.

massive communist structure across street from dinner spot; streets are jammed with pedestrians near hotel

DB reminds THB we are not on the tour for the food

THB has finished his main course

Book Review

Writers & Lovers**Lily King (read by Stacey Glenmoski, pub’d 2020): THB has gotten used to first person novels about writers...it is a real thing for authors to write about their frustrations of the profession, for publishers to see themselves in the books, and reviewers to know the "real people" in the novels. This might be the poster child for the genre. Recommended