The garden in Vama Veche where me and Florin
spent a few days, belonging to a German woman, was full of surprises: apples, a
white, beautiful dog, plums, cats, tomatoes. We stayed in one of the
three small wooden cottages built in the garden.
Mogosoaia
About 10 km from Bucharest ,
there is the Mogosoaia
Palace I t’s located in a dusty commune and to reach the palace, you
have to walk about 300m (or even less) from the main boulevard, but the
discrepancy between the village, which is poor, dusty, without any spark of
glamour and the palace area, which is large, green and
full of history, is huge. Anyway, the palace area is stuffed with people walking,
taking pictures, making barbecues, picnics, weddings, kids, single women in
their 40s, an expensive restaurant located in one of the wings of the palace and many surprising details, including a bucket with rose petals.
On the small road leading
to the Palace, about 100m from the main entrance, there where two old ladies chatting and an add saying: we are
selling lavender seedlings.
Bucurestii Noi
After a pretty short ride by metro, I arrived in the Bucurestii
Noi ( literally New Bucharest) neighborhood and I had the feeling I
landed in a small city, or in a village.
The small, perpendicular streets on the main boulevard
called Bucurestii Noi, the old houses, the trees, the smell of autumn, all this
was different from the image I had about this district. I thought it’s a
modern, developing neighborhood and probably it is, but it’s also stuffed with
houses which are not pretentious at all, where families live, a neighbourhood with dogs, old
cars, fathers and sons repairing cars. I’ve seen some new apartments blocks
built among the houses, but they aren’t that many.
According to Wikipedia, “At the end of the 19th century the
area was known as Măicănești
or Grefoaicele and was owned by Nicolae Bazilescu. The domain stretched
on 295 hectares from which 155 hectares were put out for sale and the rest was
donated to the public domain for the construction of streets and parks. In the
past the area was a part of Băneasa commune, then it became a part of the city
of Grivița Bucharest
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