Day 4 Bucharest

 

Day 4 Bucharest: Take Tauck tour of the Ceausescu "house", share a giant pig knuckle for lunch, tour a beautiful Orthodox church and an odd synagogue,  and enjoy another lovely weather day.

another pic of the building across the street from  the hotel, THB seems to take this pic every day

same-same except this time the guide explains that this is bullet (not a potato) commemorating the revolution and memoralizing the people shot in the plaza (and not a copy of the  pic of the bullet that hit DJT in the ear) 

a pic of the  outside of the Ceausescu "house" where mom, dad and their three kids lived. The guide kept repeating (saying over and over) that only 5 of them lived there. Only 5. Relatively unimpressive. Only 5....

lots of toilets inside, these are reserved for the tour visitors (no peeing in the house, no peeing in the house)

no mention of the re-paving of the driveway 

on  way back to hotel, the bus is caught at a light for an eternity; turns out there is police officer directing traffic 

A few tour members stay on the bus to get to old town; slow arrival as police and fire vehicles are occupying half the street just a block before we get off the bus

our lunch spot

view from our table

Caru Du Bere makes their own beer...exceellent

and their own bread, also very gooe

the waiter carves up a giant pig knuckle, THB has already eaten his first portion of crackling skin; shared knuckle, 1 brewski, 1 bottle of water, 1 loaf of bread, $80 with a modest tip

there is a small Eastern Orthodox church from 1794 (this is OLD town): beautiful!!

THB does not take pics inside, these are the exterior

copper roof (not pic of the old church)

red dot: beware of earthquakes

a rebuilt synagogue, a guy gives a brief history of what happened to the Jews  before and during WWII; it is brief because he talks at 1.5x speed. Costs $10p, we don't ask for change so we've made a $4 contribution to the congregation

Back to the hotel: time to rest, and DB organizes our stuff and packs our 5 bags as tomorrow (Wednesday) we move from the Athene Palace to the riverboat. 

Dinner: two scoops each of gelato, $13