Dobrestii

Hi guys,

After reading all your posts regularly and wondering if anybody else does this, but still appreciating the effort you put up for us, by writing almost every day, time has come to wish you a Merry Welcome Home!

I know you had a great honey-moon and coming home to dusty Bucharest and to your daily jobs is not something you wished for but sooner or later it was bound to happen.

We just wanted to let you know that we took great care of your apartment, we organized weekly gangbangs and the walls of your little’ol’home have seen lots of naked people. We also played with all your wedding gifts and tried on all your clothes. We smoked all your plants and drank all the booze we could find. Juts a heads up, don’t expect to find any food, booze, perfumes, clean clothes, living plants or unused tampons, when you get back.

Here’s for the second honey-moon, this time spent together with us, in Bora Bora ! Here Here !

Dana & Bob

PS. We already bought the tickets for Bora Bora by renting your apartment as a B&B for foreign gypsy students.

As my dear husband was telling you in his longest post, we did not like Rome very much. So that’s why yesterday and the day before we did not do many things. So, let me tell you what we did on Tuesday

Because the weather was not so good in the morning, we decided to go in the city and buy some stuff to eat (because we have a fridge in the room ) and this took us almost 3 hours. After we came back and had lunch we went to the pool and laid in the sun until there was not any sun on the sky . In the evening we were at the bar and we had one BIG (maybe 2l) jug of beer during the rugby match Scotland – Romania. And that was all for Tuesday
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Ciao a tutti

After a great dinner at the ground floor of the smelly hotel from Paris we went to sleep as we woke up really early in the morning (3:30). The plane departure time was 7:40, the metro is only working starting with 5:30 and we had to take the night buses. I have to admit that it was quite an adventure as these night buses are quite new (I suppose) and people actually don’t know too much about them (not even in the RATP info points where they recommended taxi ). In the end, after changing 4 buses we managed to get to the airport, where we checked-in quite early and we even had time to play some tennis on a Sony PlayStation 2 All the flight was only sleep for us and we arrived in Rome around 10.

The rest of the day was quite smooth as we took a bus to reach the metro, then the metro for 19 stops and then a very dirty train for 11 stops. Yeah it was long … and in the end we managed to reach Camping Tiber. We checked in, went in our “mobile room”, but unfortunately the shower wasn’t working. Therefore I went to the reception and they gave us another mobile room (ok – some explanation about this: as it is a camping all the “rooms” are actually in some kind of trailers and they are anchored to the ground, together with electricity, sewing system and so on. They are really nice, but as there are 2 rooms per trailer we could feel it shaking when our neighbors were moving inside the next room ).

This new one was in a different place, a higher class and we managed to get access to a kitchen as well (the door between the room and the kitchen couldn’t be locked). Therefore we were lucky to get more and pay the same price

After we settled in this new mobile room we wanted to eat something as we were starving, but nothing was opened around (the “market” is closed between 12 and 16 and the restaurant was closed between 14 and 19; the time was 14:30 ) so we had to enjoy some remaining of Pringles, french cheese and spanish sausage (or salami, as you wish – thank you Anna for it, we really enjoyed it!). After our full lunch we just went to sleep and woke up around dinner time We went in the restaurant and had some hot food together with some beers which became some Claras con limone Along with the good food and Claras. at the restaurant we received very good services as well. All the waiters working here are very young and well trained how to do their job. Along them we met Florin, a young guy from Romania, very nice which is staying in Rome for almost 5 years and in Camping Tiber for 3 years. We spoke just a little bit with him, because he was working After the dinner we arrived in our mobile room and had a very nice night… sorry sleep And, mainly, this is how our first day in Rome ended

Now getting to the next day – Monday – we woke up around 11, we got something to eat pretty fast and then we went in the big city. I have to stop here for a description of Rome as we were really disappointed after coming from Spain and Paris … First of all – we found the city quite dirty compared to Madrid, Barcelona and maybe even Paris. The train we had to take from Flaminio until Prima Porta (the small village where Camping Tiber is located) is extremely dirty and also quite smelly. It looks like old romanian trains and it’s probably at least 15 years old, or even more. The same dirt and smell can be found almost everywhere – on the streets, in the metro stations, in the middle of the touristic areas and not to mention the river which is really really bad. And on top of that there are restaurants on the river’s sides and even cruise boats. To be honest I really don’t know what is to be seen except a lot of plants, the green stuff from a dirty river floating everywhere, a lot of garbage and probably a bad smell too This is one of the reasons we weren’t very impressed by Rome. We heard so many people saying that Rome is so nice and blah blah, but in our opinion it’s more the fame than the real thing … It’s totally true that there are a lot (and I mean really a lot) of very nice old buildings, most of the center of the town is surrounded by a lot of points of attraction and I won’t start naming them as they are too many. However besides the dirt and smell I was mentioning earlier, the streets and especially the side-walks are also not very good at all, there are a lot of romanians everywhere (which made us feel like home ) and all these combined gave us the impression of a city that used to be very beautiful and famous, but now is going down because of bad administration and lack of interest in making it cleaner and nicer.
Now back to what I was saying We first went to Vatican, of course … but we were really amazed by the enormous queue that we found there. The one at Eiffel tower was just a little baby compared to this one. After some time we realized that this huge queue was for the Vatican Museum, where the famous Chapel painted by Michelangelo is and so on.

Therefore we skipped it and went to Piazza San Pietro, which we have to admit that it’s really huge and impressive. The same goes for the Basilica and its Chapel. We went on top of it and the views over Rome are really nice. After quite a long time spent there we went for a tour around the western part of the city and looking on the map we see that we walked quite a lot We left Colosseum and all the really old stones for another day (maybe tomorrow) and at some point we stopped to eat something. We picked randomly a restaurant and once again we were very disappointed: not by the food – we had really good pasta but by the services. Anyway the waiter didn’t get any tip from us, but he deserves it

In the end we took the train back to our camping, we went in the bar to get some drinks (as it was happy hour) and we got ourselves 1 liter of sangria with 2 long straws (in my opinion it was really bad, but my lovely wife thinks it was good). They had these long straws over there, but I thing they were only for design as actually nobody was using them. After we got them all the people from the bar buying sangria asked for long straws and they were having a lot of fun using them. We even made a bet regarding a table next to us: there were 4 persons there having some beers and one of the guys went to buy more drinks as the happy hour was ending. I was saying that he’ll got beer and my wife was saying sangria. In the end he came with one jug of beer and one of sangria The bet was about organizing a week-end in the mountains, therefore we’ll have to do it together in the end

I think it’s enough for now as we have to eat the excellent “ciorba” that my wife just cooked. And of course we are preparing for the rugby game with Scotland, therefore “Hai Romania!”.

Ciao!
Dobrestii

It is my “responsibility” to talk about the last day spent in “the city of lights” how my beloved husband called Paris.
So, because it was a Saturday and our French friends workers had a free day, we could sleep a little bit more, but no later than 9:30 am because we didn’t want to skip the breakfast

After it, we went in the room and spent some time there, being very lazy and without any adventure spirit. But, finally we left the hostal decided to go and see the Opera and after that to climb the Eiffel Tower. On the way to the Opera we reached some C&A shop from where we bought many nice sweaters for Pedro in particular…this time:) So, another hour spent shopping

Next stop, after the shopping session, was indeed The Opera which unfortunately was closed for some concerts and stuff and we could not visited it. Maybe next time in Paris And, because we had a big bag with clothes with us, we thought it will be much better to climb the Tower without them, so, we went back to the smelly room and dropped them there

In the end, we reached the Eiffel Tower with a very LOOOONNNNGGGGG queue for the entrance tickets. We could say we spent there more than 4 hours, taking queues to buy tickets, to take the elevators to go up in the top floor, to take some nice pictures with the views and the susnset (crowded place up there ;P), to go down and to exit from the big and nice Tower. These were the worst parts of visiting it. Let me now present to you the wonderful parts.

After we reached the elevator, we climbed to the second floor, 125 m high, where the view of Paris was absolutely incredible. We could see Trocadero square, the Arch of Triumph, Notre Dame cathedral, Sacre Coeur cathedral, Invalides Domme, La Defense district, with all the sky-scrapers, Montparnasse Tower and many many more.

With the next elevator we reached the top floor, more than 270 m high from where we could not see all the monuments mentioned above (Yes, because of the hight). But still, the view over Paris was incredible, especially when the sun went down and all the night lights turned on. Starting with 9:00 pm, the Tower is lightened with many small white lights for 10 minutes every hour and the view is very very nice. So, after many photo sessions in the Tower we went down and had a very nice dinner at the restaurant from the ground level of our hostal (this one is really good compared with the four floors above it, representing Hotel Le Parisien ) with the same rose French wine, Cotte de Provence, 2006, some “moules” and lamb cooked in Morocco way. Really good and nice

So, finally, around 0:00 we were already in the smelly room and prepared to sleep for no more than 3 hours and a half, because our flight to Rome was very early in the morning.

But, until we’ll write our memories from Italy, we can say that we enjoyed very much the week spent in Paris and definitely we’ll be there again.

Kisses from both of us, and “write” you from our next and last stop, Rome.

Howdy!

It seems that the more we are approaching the end of our excellent honey-moon the lazy we become Yesterday we had a relaxing day in this nice city. We first went to see Place de la Bastille. I expected to have some old walls there and so on, but actually there is a big new-building called the Opera (one of the many operas in Paris ) as the walls and everything were destroyed quite some time ago.We then walked towards Place des Vosges where Victor Hugo lived for some years and we actually went inside the museum. It was really interesting to see a lot of pictures from his funerary when all the France was very sad. A lot of people gathered on Champs Elysees and so on. We also enjoyed half an hour on the grass from the nice Place des Vosges, where a lot of teenagers and people were siting and relaxing. I think it’s better to have a session of “group-relaxing” instead of being alone

After coming back to life we took the bus and went down at Odeon Theater, quite big and also famous. Just behind it we found the “posh” Louxembourg Jardins where we had something to eat and also laid down on some chairs for maybe more than one hour. There was this small lake with a lot of ducks and a kid had a “speed-boat” toy that he used to scare the ducks It was really funny and enjoyable

As it was around 16:30 already we decided to go up to the Montmaitre district and we went in a very small park where “I love you” is written in all languages. Thank you very much Thomas for the guidance in Paris! It was really useful After that we went up with the Funicular de Montmaitre up to the Sacre Coeur. Unfortunately it was quite late and we couldn’t go on top of it, but anyway the views from there are really nice. Very close by there is an area with a lot of people from Morocco, Senegal and other african countries so we went there just to feel a bit like in those countries. I must admit that it was really interesting as we were almost all the time the only white people around, but it was quite safe and we didn’t have problems at all. Then we realized that we are also very close to home and Moulin Rouge, so we went to see the famous street, took some pictures and then walked back to our “hotel” (it was something like 15 minutes walk, so we could say that we stayed in Paris next to Moulin Rouge ).

In the end of the day we met our “virtual” guide – Thomas and his sister – and we went in a nice part of Paris to go out by night – Mabillon. As it was Friday night everything was full, but in the end we found a place to stay – Le Bonaparte – a nice brasserie, but very expensive in my opinion (a large beer was 11 Euros and Thomas didn’t let us pay for it … grrr. So next time you come to Romania we will prepare something special for you, so beware ).

As you can see it’s Saturday around 12:40 and we are still in the room, so again lazy Anyway the sun just appeared from the clouds so we’ll hurry up to see some more of Paris as today it’s the last day

Au revoir!
Le Dobrescu’

Hello everybody,

Because I was a little bit lazy, I did not have the time to tell you the things we did on September 13th. But I will try to remember now what we did

So, we got up at 8:00 am sharp (like everyday – you know … the drilling stuff), we had our little breakfast and we stayed in our room until 1:00 pm, letting Pedro work. I hope it will be the last working activity of his in this honey moon, so we could enjoy it at maximum
But, now let’s continue…

We decided to leave our room and we went to see the City Hall (Hotel de Ville) we took some pictures and walked towards The Pompidou Centre and we saw a strange fountain with some Neo Art sculptures After that we found some shops from which I bought many nice things like trousers, shirts, sweaters and at very good prices as well. So, another hour spent on shopping in Paris.
We continued with another square called Place de Saint Eustache where we saw a big head with a big hand in front of it, as tall as maybe 2.5 meters there we saw many interesting things ans people.

Next stop it was Le Cathedrale de Notre Dame where we were impressed again, I would say of the immensity of Catholic churches and cathedrals. After some time spent there we wanted to see Le Tour Eiffel, so we went there by metro. But when we arrived at the entrance we saw a really BIGGGGG queue, so no chance to see the sunset from the tower. That’s why we decided to go some other time. But the time it was only 7:00 pm and we had so many things to see in Paris.

So, we went to visit “Le Latin District” where we knew form our friend Thomas we could find nice restaurants with good food at affordable prices. But before going to eat, we visited The famous university, Le Sorbone, and also the Pantheon which were really nice as well. But the hunger convinced us to go and find some restaurant and some food
We finally arrived on Le Rue de la Huchette where there were many, many restaurants with different “cuisines”. And although my dear and beloved husband wanted to enter in a greek restaurant I tried to tell him that we are in France, so it will be nicer to try some French cuisine. And we did found a nice and cozy restaurant, where we had great food, nice French wine and very good Creme Brullee which, by the way, is really good and please try it if you go to France.

And of course after such a good meal, we just wanted to get at our smelly hostal and have a niceee sleep, because at 8:00 am next day we would get up again

That was almost all we did yesterday in Paris.

See you and take care,
The wife

Bon Jour from the city of lights

Or is it the city of people in love? Or the city with the oldest metro and a lot of old buildings?Hmmhzz … maybe the city with a lot of bridges and interesting sights. Yeah … it’s that hard to describe Paris when you come here as a tourist. After a great day at the Versailles we took the challenge to go to Louvre the next day (Wednesday the 12th). And in order to make it even more difficult and tiering we started on top of Chapms-Elysees with L’Arc de Triomphe and then walked down on the most known avenue in Paris all the way to the Louvre museum. This walk took us quite long as there are a lot of famous shops and you know …

At some point we passed La Place de Concorde and then the Tuileries Gardens finalizing with the biggest museum of France (I suppose, because I was really impressed about what’s inside). We went inside the glass Pyramid and found a huge hall with 4 entries and we took some info flyer. When we asked how much time we need for all the museum they told us 4-5 days and to be honest I didn’t believe that person from the info-desk. But then we walked inside and well … it’s absolutely huge, you can easily get lost inside and there are a lot, a lot of things to see, from Egyptian mummies to the famous painting of Leonardo Da Vinci, La Gioconda, or the beautiful Venus.

What can I say … we managed to “run” for some hours and maybe we saw a quarter of everything, but we really just saw the things there without having time to listen the audio descriptions or to read everything written on info panels. I think that this museum it’s a must-see only to have an idea on how big a museum can be and especially for people loving art, culture diversity and history.

At the end of the day we were totally wasted and we bought a roasted chicken, some potatoes and we ate until we felt down and slept until next morning at 8:00 when the hammer drills started all over again

Au revoir et a domain!

Yes, now I am writing you from Paris , our next stop in this splendid honey moon trip.

So, we arrived at the nice hostal we found on the internet (I saw that my husband updated you already about how French people understand things in English ) and after some dinner and shower we went directly to bed because we were tired…again , but before, we decided to get up next morning around 9 am and start our trip to visit Le Chateau de Versailles. Our plans were changed a little bit, because at 8 am sharp, some drilling issues (please read hammer drills) started right on the street where the hotel is. So, we got up at 8 am and around 9-9:30 we were already on the way to Le Chateau

Being for the first time I visit Paris, I was really impressed by the biggest palace I had in front of me. It was incredible the whole day although we walked for at least 6-7 hours.

So, we bought the tickets which were not cheap at all and we started our tour with the King’s & Queen’s State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors and King’s chambers. It is amazing to see the luxury which surrounded The King and The Queen and some kids of them. I hope that Pedro will be able soon to put the pictures we made in our gallery, so you will see what I am talking about in this post.

We also saw The Chapel in which the king prayed and assisted to the Messes. The Royal Opera can not be visited, being under restaurateur’s work for the next 20 months. Nothing so special about this Chapel, but we saw it

After that we took some history lessons in The France Gallery where we could see many portraits of important figures of France and we could hear some stories about them from our nice audio-guides borrowed at the entrance in the Palace

The last thing we visited inside the Palace was Dauphin’s Apartments, the heir to the throne, where we could see again nice furniture, the same luxury I was telling about at the beginning and very nice portraits made by famous French painters of the time.

After the inside of the Palace, we went out in order to see all the famous gardens of the palace, which I had to admit that are absolutely splendid. And we walked, and we walked for more than 2 hours until we reached another part which can be visited, Marie-Antoinette’s Estate, composed form 3 things, Le Grand Trianon, Le Petit Trianon and The Domains of Marie-Antoinette.

Le Grand Trianon offered to Louis XIV some space for itself, being situated at the end of the park of Versailles. Having only white and blue porcelain it was called the Porcelain Trianon. Besides Louis XIV also Napoleon I stayed there several times.

Le Petit Trianon was “the pavillon d’agrement” for the private use of Louis XV and Madame de Pampadour In 1774, Le Petit Trianon was offered as a gift to Queen Marie-Antoinette and it became her favorite residence. Besides the buildings we visited we saw many nice places and things like the French and English Gardens, the Chapel, Queen’s Theatre, the Orangery, the Marlborought Tower, the Mill, the Farm (where we took pictures of many nice & interesting animals ), the Guard’s House, and the Rock and the Cake or Grotto, as Frenches called it.

It was one of the nicest days spent in this honey moon and for a day I imagined my self a little Princess which lived around 1700-1800 with big dresses and nice jeweleries

I am sure that next time I will visit Paris, I will go again to Le Chateau de Versailles:)

The end of the day was very nice as well, as we met with one of our friends and with which we had a great dinner at La Fayette Concorde Restaurant. We also received a nice present, a traditional Chinese wedding present, like 2 cobalt vases with the Phoenix Bird and The Dragon on them (24 karats gold plated) . We thank you a lot for the very nice evening we spent together

So, this was the first and WONDERFUL day spent in Paris…

Kisses from Dobreasca…this time

Greetings from the lazy husband

Yes it took me 2 days to pack all the things we have and this is why I write so late Actually when moving from one city to another it’s quite hard to find the time to write some things.

Now coming back to Sunday the 9th in Barcelona – we started the day quite late as we were still tired (my wife from the concert and I from packing ) and she started to cook a very good romanian soup (ciorba de perisoare). I have to admit that it’s a real challenge to cook some traditional dish in a different country than its origin Therefore it was just very good instead of delicious as my wife is cooking it at home So we enjoyed the soup together with Irene and then we went into the city to see Picasso Museum.

I have to admit that I thought all Picasso’s work is done in the way he is famous about, but this not true at all. We saw a lot, a lot of paintings from his early years as a painter and they are very nice and normal paintings (as far as a non-art-nor-paintings-specialist like me can tell As he got old indeed he moved to his interesting style of dividing a picture in different shapes and then painting them … let’s say “mixed in a special and typical way”

After the art infusion we hurried up to Parc Montjuic in order to catch the fountains show. I was a bit disappointed as I expected something else. To be more precise I saw some short movie going around by e-mail regarding the fountain show in Barcelona and it seemed bigger, different and I remember it being by the sea and not in the park. Maybe it was some kind of special show and I have to say that we enjoyed the one in Parc Montjuic twice as it was very good The combination of music, colors and water was very carefully planned and it came out to be a great show.

In the end we went together with Irene and Josefin at a very nice basc restaurant, right next to the Cathedral in the old part of Barcelona. The payment method here is really interesting and it goes like this: on the bar you can find all kind of food and each “dish” has a stick inside it. Dish is too much to say as usually it a small slice of bread with something on top of it (like a small sausage, or some salad, tuna and so on). There are 2 sizes of sticks and you pay in the end the number of sticks you have left on your plate. Of course they are paying a lot of attention to the tables all the time in order to spot the ones trying to get rid of some “extra” sticks In the end the food was excellent and we went back home.

The next day, on Monday we had our flight to Paris and all the day was more or less about getting to the airport in Barcelona, buying 2 sleeping pillows from the airport (very nice actually), getting to Paris and then finding the hotel in Paris. BTW – in Paris Double Room Ensuite (Private Bathroom) might mean 2 beds (almost) standing next to each-other and a shower + sink in the room (practically in the room, with nothing but a curtain around the shower bath). We were really surprised to see that the toilet is shared (damn … ) and it’s on the corridor. So be very careful when you book something in Paris, especially if it’s somehow near the center and at an affordable price

I think that’s about all for now, my wife will come back with more details about Versailles and hammer drills in the morning by the hotel windows

Kiss,
The husband

Yesterday, on September 8th I had many reasons to be happy and more than happy.
The first one I will talk about it is our first year celebration. Yes, last year in the same day, Pedro proposed to me to marry him and I said YES with all my mind and soul I love you, Pedro, very much and I am really glad to be your wife.

So, now I will tell you something about the only place we visited yesterday in the wonderful city of Barcelona. Yes, indeed, because we were a little more tired, we decided to get a nice sleep in the morning and to have not a very busy day (we are also preparing for Paris ). So, for the half of the day it was Park Guell by Antonio Gaudi where we could see the big blue dragon from the entrance, the 2 little houses from the entrance in the park, which they really looked like the ones from fairy tells , the big terrace supported by many many columns, the Gaudi house museum and all the things related to Antonio Gaudi and his work.

And because with a day before we saw on the streets some adds with the concert of Chayanne and because I like his songs very much we went to buy 2 tickets for the evening. And because these 2 tickets were more as a gift for me, Pedro doesn’t like this guy very much or his music, I asked Irene to come with me instead of Pedro. And she accepted and we really enjoyed the time spent there.
The concert was really well organized with a very good sound and nice lights shows. And of course, Chayanne and his band made a great show. The thing that I never saw at a concert was the way he pleased the audience and the way he thanked for the applauses and Ole’s, cause we are in Spain I felt very good and as well Irene and I was really glad she accepted my invitation.

So, definitely, we had a great day yesterday and some more to come about Barcelona later from my husband

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