Bucharest Romania in the Dead of Winter

Last week I showed you our visit to Coral Castle near Homestead, Florida, just before we boarded the Norwegian Breakaway for a transatlantic voyage to Southhampton, U.K. I won’t bore you with yet another set of articles on our visit to the Azores, as I’ve already done a series (beginning with” this article” São Miguel Island, Azores — Lagoa do Fogo (Fire Lake)). Instead, I’m going to jump to our next destination, Bucharest, Romania, into which we arrived in the dead of winter, the third week in February.

The temperatures were on the cold side, as you would expect from today’s photos, and the streets and sidewalks treacherous.

We did much in and around Bucharest, so I’ll be dedicating five weeks to what we saw. Along the way I’ll show you an incredible dining experience dating back to 1899, take you to Peleș Castle, get caught up in the middle of a protest march just outside the Palace of Parliament, and head off to a chilling visit to “Bran Castle (ak.a., “Dracula’s” Castle).

But today I’m just going to whet your appetite on what to expect in the weeks ahead with an emphasis on the snow that greeted our arrival. Wednesday we’ll get earnest with a stroll around the streets of Bucharest. Until then:

Слава Україні! (Slava Ukraini!)