The week that was.

I put in 65 hours last week and that is not even logging all the time I spent.

Amazing. I’d tell you what Bucharest is like except I’m not seeing so much of it. I know the way from my hotel to where I am working pretty well though.

Incredulous you say? Well you should be. Its not that we have to be putting in 65 hour weeks-it is that the people who ultimately are running this project do-and think there is nothing wrong with demanding everyone else do the same. And these are men who “don’t want their time wasted”

I did get out for a while though yesterday morning after getting caught up on time sheets and getting arrangements to get paid for this little extravaganza. I decided to head up to the biggest park in Bucharest so I could see something different before the phone started ringing.

It is a nice park-athough not quite as well kept as one might expect. The park is called Herestrau park and is accessible by the Bucharest subway.When you get there you come out near the Cross honoring the Aviators. ( Aviatorilior).

After which, you have to say hi to Charles De Gaulle on the way in. I sure did not expect that.

Then you have plenty of choices, go right, left, or straight. I decided to go left and head down this avenue:

Plenty of suprises here. There is also a big lake that is a long run or walk around.

From the lake you can see one of their government buildings-lots of these , what I call, Soviet Style buildings here.

Soviet Style except for the beer sign of course. Ciuc is a local beer-its pretty good. Adeverul is a local paper. They tell me the media here is full of yellow journalism and most of it is directed at their President-kind of like ours only amplified ten fold. (“If they don’t get a story they just make one up!”)

Then again-when in Bucharest, you don’t have to go to Paris to see the Arc de Triomphe:

This will be an up and down week- I will try to post when I can.