2013-10-01 & 02-Bucharest & Transylvania, Romania (Days 1 & 2)

Georgia and I arrived in Bucharest from Boston on Swissair via Zurich and met our good friends Laurie and Paul at the Bucharest Radisson Hotel on a rainy afternoon. In the evening we enjoyed a great dinner of Romanian specialties at La Mama Restaurant, a 10 minute walk from our hotel, just past the Atheneum, the Romanian Capital's Philharmonic Hall. The next morning we boarded a bus with other Viking Cruise touristas for a trip to Transylvania, including a stop at Veles Palace, the summer home of one of Romania's four monarchs, King Carol I.