Bucharest trip

Few words about our trip to Romania – it was amazing, day and night comparing to what I was expecting. The image of this country that we have is really bad and completely wrong. All the people I know think about Romania as an a bit creepy developing country (how did they even get to EU?), with 99% of population being gypsies, creepy buildings everywhere, rubbish and graffiti on the streets, dogs that attack people and people that are not educated at all. In reality it is totally wrong. Like totally. If I didn’t know that I am in Romania (ok, not really possible to wake up somewhere not knowing where, but let’s imagine that), I could assume that it is Belgium or any other European country. 

The old town is so full with restaurants bars and cafeterias, that in the evening it is quite difficult to just pass by. The streets are clean and the architecture is just amazing. The fountains all over the city are making it even better and the only problem here probably are the electric wires that are in complete mess hanging everywhere. The people are nice, the relative amount of gypsies is not really bigger than in Varna or in Riga and lots of the people have even light hair and blue eyes (this sounds really natzy, but people need to know, how it is in reality). Ok, maybe they have some problems with English and it’s difficult to explain them what you need, but the days we were there we never had problems, since if they didn’t speak English, they knew Spanish, as lots of them go to Spain for seasonal work (like lots of Latvians go to England). There are less homeless dogs than in Varna, and we haven’t seen them trying to attack anyone. For people from Western Europe this might be crazy, but for me after spending 2 months in Varna and seeing these dogs everywhere, I almost didn’t notice them in Bucharest. 

Talking about the metro, which was described in our guidebook as a really creepy one – we took metro trains 7 times for these 2,5 days and all of the times it was fast, no dogs, no graffiti, no problems at all, the only problem was that it was closed 23.50, when we wanted to go to our hostel and we had to catch a taxi on the street, but despite everything that all the guidebooks say, we only paid 4,50 lei, which is around 2 EUR and the taxi driver even showed us the shop opened 24/7. The guy working in the hostel – Eugeny, was one of the friendliest people I met (in a good way), he gave us the map where he marked all the good places to see, recommended a restaurant with traditional Romanian food and was really nice during all our stay. No one tried to rob us, or to cheat us or to do any other harm. 

The impressions that I have now are only positive and I definitely want to come back to Romania one day, but for longer time to see some other cities around. And from now on I will also recommend this amazing country to my friends to visit. Because what people say about it needs to be changed.