Saturday, November 14, 2009

Inside Ceauşescu's palace of the people


I have always been to scared to visit this building - it is so so big (second only to the Pentagon) and intimidating. It is a bit Dr Who. But, with a little help from my friend Marcel at the Romanian land registry office, I braved both the building and the security to go on a tour of the building. It is big - big rooms, big halls, big everything. The one hour tour showed us 7% of it (according to our guide). Lots of marble, gold, wood and carpets.