What busy day in Turkey today. We started at the blue mosque. It was a 2 minute walk from our guest house. I thought it was amazing it was such a huge building and so old. It was amazingly well decrotated with geometric patterns, and caligraphy. Additionally, the fact that it is currently in use 5 times a day adds to it. I dont know how neither of us thought of it but we bothbwore shorts and were passed full length skirts to put on.., which was fine... im not sur...

We have made it to the airport in Bucharest. Today we just got up and went for a walk around a large park north of our b&b. There were tons of busts in the park. Though neither 8f us recognized any of the people. However there were two memorials to Michael Jackson that we found amusing. We then walked back to the b&b to pickup our bags. We grabbed the bags and went to the bus stop and made it to the airport with more then enough time. All in all not a ver...

Well today was our main Bucharest day. Our b&b has a pretty late breakfast of 9-11, so we got a bit of a later start. We started by tak7ng a tour of the palace of parliament. This isbthe second largest building on earth. So we only got to see 4% of it.mit was built by the communist dictator ceavescu. The shear size of it as you approach it is ridiculous. It is not only the size that is crazy but also the elaborateness of the building. One room has a 5 ton ch...

What a day... our tourguide arrived at the train station at our car on time... well actually we were 45 minutes late. He then asked us if we minded if we took two girls from his h8stel with us. We said no then he asked about going to another castle that would cost more. He said €60 but we got him doen to another€50 total. First he took us to Bran castle the real fake dracula castle. Vlad probably only stayed in the castle for a couple of nights when retreati...

Well I'm writing this on the train the morning aftrr leaving Budapest. Yesterday was a bit of a slower day. We really just git up went on a walk about got dome  langos for breakfast and eent ti momento park. It is a oark with all the old commun7st statues in it. It made for some great photo ops... We tthen wen5 fkr a leisurely stroll wherever the road took us. We found a touristvstreet where we browsed stores including a belt store that alex thought had good qua...