Friday 10 May, Day 7
We asked to do some washing, which took 1hr45, so it was
late before we left. We walked past the patisserie in the station
to
Victoria Plaza to catch the hop-on/hop-off bus.
We waited for quite a while to see which way, in all the chaos, they came,
but none did. So we went downstairs to
the subway train, and went for one station to Herastrau Park, near the Arche de
Triomphe.
We walked through the peaceful
green park, and at last found the National Village Museum, which is a
collection of nearly 300 original wooden buildings, dismantled from all over
Romania, and brought here. The oldest is
the big church, from 1722. They are all
pretty simple, and a few were open to see the furniture and rugs and
blankets.
We'd had homemade sandwich while
we were there, so needed some afternoon tea back in the city. We
tried a couple of times to get a bus map, but obviously they don’t exist, and
we never saw a ho-ho bus all afternoon, but did get caught in a heavy
downpour. Near University Square we
asked directions of a guy who looked reasonable, and he immediately got into
deep conversation with David, and off we went with him, in the opposite
direction I thought we needed. After
about 5 mins, he pointed us down the street, and asked for €20
for his trouble. We gave him 20 RON,
considerably less, to get rid of him, and he disappeared quickly. Back in the plaza David suddenly pointed, and
there were the golden onions, so close that we’d missed them. But the inside was nothing compared to the
roof.
So we jumped on a bus, and after a
while, tried to find ourselves on Googlemaps.
Another passenger came to our aid, and emphatically pointed out that we
were way off course, so we jumped off quickly. As the rain came down again, David spotted a
bus with destination ‘Gara de Nord’, so once again we waited, and at last one
came and took us home. We retrieved our
second load of washing, and strung it
round before getting dinner.
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