Goodbye, hello!

Bucharest will be waiting for you all in May. Since you will see, discover and learn everything first hand, it seems pointless describing it here.
Welcome and goodbye.

Outside

Right outside the town, a wild peaceful spot. Seeing the tall buildings and stacks enhances the escape feeling.
No more smog, noise, rush or worries. Just grass, a puddle, a tree, the sky and the silence.
What else do we need to be happy?

The Fountain and the Villa

When you enter the town coming from the Otopeni Airport, Bucharest greets you with some of its representative buildings and monuments, aligned along the Kiseleff Avenue. The first of them are the Miorita Fountain and, across the street, the Nicolae Minovici Art Museum, also called „The Crystal Bells Villa”.

The fountain is made of Dobruja granite and it was designed by the architect Octav Doicescu.It was inaugurated with other monuments in the year 1936, during the „Bucharest Month”. It took its name after the best known ballad in our folklore, „Miorita”, because its sides were adorned with black-and-white mosaic scenes from the poem by the sculptor Milita Patrascu. According the specialists, the fountain and the villa are in a perfect harmony. The fountain was recenlty renovated.

The Nicolae Minovici house, also called “The Crystal Bells Villa”, because of the 40 bells that were tinkling in its balcony, was built in 1905. The villa has rich carved stone decorations and a plaque with its owner’s favorite motto:”Improbus Labor Omnia Vincit” (Tenacious work conquers all). It is considered an architectural monument and its model was shown as a representative illustration at many international exhibitions. The collections it shelters consist of traditional costumes, rugs, furniture, pottery, musical instruments, every day objects, icons painted on wood or glass. There are more than 4000 objects. The villa also used to have a very nice garden, with rich stone ornaments in the 19^th century manner.

Details

There are a lot of nice details on the old buildings in Bucharest. Most of them belong to the buildings from the time it was called "Little Paris".
They give it a special atmosphere, as if taking a walk through time.
Unfortunately, our tight schedule leaves almost no time for such a thing. We always hurry, looking around from unexpected cars, under our feet for steps or puddles,or into ourselves for our worries, but seldom up, to the high buildings or the (sometimes blue) sky.
We should enjoy these things more.

A quiet place

The melancholy of a misty autumn morning invites nobody to go for a walk in the park, sit down to breath the cool air and listen to the silent sounds around. The bench is just there, waiting for somebody to share the cold breeze coming down from the mountains.
Walkers are lazy, children at school but, later in the year the place may become a rock to climb, a castle to take shelter.
Simply, a bench

Where we live

This is Ávila in snow. The places we live in change a lot. They are not always the same, but you can always find something attractive to watch.
Mos the times we walk the same streets, see the same people and enter the same places.
From time to time we discover new places, corners and lights that were hidden before.
Why don't we look for these spots in our towns.
Valentina