Bucharest; Friday, 20 October, 2017

I’d stayed overnight at a hotel near the airport, so it was a quick journey into terminal 5, and then a very smooth journey through. The flight inbound had been delayed by nearly 40 minutes because of congestion at the airport, but they worked wonders on the turnaround and we were only 20 minutes late pushing back in the end.

An uneventful 3-hour flight later we touched down in Bucharest and after quite a bit of a wait for my luggage I was on the express bus into town – albeit not particularly express like as we hit Friday evening rush hour (or at least I hoped that was why the traffic was quite so bad.)

Nearly an hour after leaving the airport, just 16Km away, I arrived at my hotel and checked in. Having dropped my stuff in my room I headed back out and over to the nearby metro station to catch the tube into the city centre.

I went for a little bit of a wander around the city centre, mostly heading over to the Old Town to have a look around.

On my wanders I found a couple of very nice-looking restaurants, so I stopped in one for a quick dinner and drink before I continued wandering through the old town and over to the New St George church before walking up into the university district.

There I spotted a metro station, which was in fact the next one down from the one nearest my hotel, so I hopped on the metro and headed back to my hotel to turn in for the night.