I just noticed that I never wrote about Bucharest.
Bucharest is a big, gross, soviet-looking city with a lot of stray dogs. There's something charming about it, though. Maybe it's the fact that they don't seem to have any regulations for anything. Or that they sell 2.5 liter bottles of beer at the grocery store for $1.50.
All the Romanians I met were really funny and sarcastic. You'd expect a city made of grey and brown to be full of sad, quiet people, but that's not the case at all.
The hostel I was at was full of Americans. The two brothers from Utah I met on the train decided to stay there for a night as well. They actually are brothers-- 25 and 28-- who decided to travel together for two weeks because they have a friend that works for Delta. There were also a group of about 8 guys from Missouri that included a Mississipi transplant who had his house destroyed during Katrina, and one of Billy Idol's road managers.
I didn't end up seeing much of the city, because the one sunny day I ended up getting horribly lost and climbing on a random tram line (the 44) that took me into who-knows-where before I gave up and took it all the way back to the city center.
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You need to make a google map of everywhere you have been. It would make for a pretty image.
Alex, CNBC is doing a special report this week on Dubai. It has been fascinating. I did not know so much of the development was being done by non government entities. One of the developers said his company had 60,000 stock holders. He also said that there are 400 million people in that region (Arab speaking counties) with no where to go. Which is why Dubai is becoming a tourist destination as well as a business one. They also talked about Microsoft, Google, Cisco and all the tech companies that have operation there. Should be fun for you to see.
you've made an inadvertent steriogram with img92 and 93. it works, i did it. WELCOME TO YOUR TRAVELS IN 3D!!!!LOL!
all those cats. blech.
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