The next day I started a little slowly, sleeping in until about 9, before heading down for a buffet breakfast. Then we decided to go for a walking tour around Bucharest with a couple of my team mates.
Here's some of the sights of Bucharest:
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| Life and Death shrines at a church |
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| EU building |
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| Quite an impressive building |
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| The church |
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| An interesting wiring job - seen all around Romania |
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| An old Communist era block of flats |
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| Academy of Economic Studies |
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| Not sure what this sign is - I think its a school zone. There were some interesting suggestions on my facebook page |
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| Some very interesting scaffolding outside a church |
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| More scaffolding |
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| The view from my hotel window |
We came across the Romanian Athenaeum, a concert hall in the centre of Bucharest. It was opened in 1888 and is the home of the George Enescu (a famous composer) Philharmonic.
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| The Atheneul Roman (Romanian Athenaeum) |
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| The dome |
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| The front |
Some more shots of Bucharest central:
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| The art museum |
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| Carol I Royal Foundation Palace |
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| The base of the statue |
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| King Carol I |
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| The ornate doors to the Central University Library |
This next building was pretty interesting:
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| A glass building inside an old shell |
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| Through the window you can see that the glass building fills the whole inside |
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| The rear of the building |
It turns out that the shell was the Headquarters of the Union of Romanian Architects. It was destroyed during the revolution in 1989. When it was renovated in 2003-2007 it was decided to retain the historic outer shell and build inside it.
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| An interesting church hidden between two large concrete buildings |
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| Another church |
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| An unfinished cement building |
When we arrived back at the hotel the boys were having lunch and starting to get ready for the game:
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| Lunch |
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