Mostly photos... More Walking in Bucharest

Taking photo number eight zillion-ish

One of the many old Dracula-houses 
we have seen--and we're not 
even in Transylvania yet!

Today started with our favourite part of backpacking, the hostel's free breakfast.

Afterwards we went walking to see if we could find some of the more interesting things described in our travel guidebook.  We also saw a lot of bizarre public art, so it became an impromptu abuse-public-art day.  

Who is this guy? And what's wrong with his dog?

We took more rides on public transit, saw more community dogs, and ate another delicious healthy lunch, this time in the local fast-food restaurant, which was right across the street from McDonalds and makes us wonder how McD's could possibly stay in business here.

This is a bank. Why is it so ornate and beautiful? We
don't know. But we would keep our money here.

I am crossing a little river on a dyke.

Bucharest is amazing and we would love to live here some day.

Vince loves art...

...to play with!

This is the Parliament Palace, the second largest building in the world.

There are beautiful buildings like this one everywhere we
look, but we didn't want to clutter up our blog with photos,
so we posted the rest on flickr. 

Go and look at our flickr site for more of our pictures from this lovely city:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayayebee/

Bucharest is hot in the summer, but was kind enough to provide
public misters.  Aaahhh...

Blah blah blah... Blah blah?  Blah blah BLAH!! Blah blah.

Check back tomorrow as we visit the Peasant museum and board a train for Sighisoara, home of Dracula.