Palace of Parliament

We walked then to the Piata Revolution and onto the broad boulevard that leads to Bucharest's main tourist attraction, Ceausescu's megalomaniacal Palace of Parliament, the world's second largest building (after the US Pentagon); so it is written. Actually, it does not look that large.

OK, at this point it's still a mile away

Looking the other way on the 3.5km Boulevard Reunii,

deliberately designed to out-do the Champs-E in Paris...

Street lamps very interesting, marred by the

third-world wiring scheme; this outside the

department of tourism, right next to the

world's second largest building

Looking back the whole length of the Reunii

The Palace of Parliament and the square before it; today

was an environmental-themed festival, with yet another

rock concert; what would Ceausescu have thought?!

In fuller glory

Concert just beginning, people not yet arriving

Craft and food fair outside the Palace

Making those delicious roller-pin pastry things we like

And cooking them over an open fire

Too large for my suitcase, damn!

Michas...Anthony Bourdain says you have not really

experienced a country until you have tasted its street

food...michas is "some garlic, some rat, some dog, some cat";

go for it, Tony!

But I did really like the music, the "Rock

Loves Chopin" group from Poland; the

"Revolutionary Etude" really works in

their rendition