By bluemoon on Skatehive
When I want to see foreign tourists, I go downtown. I mean Bucharest, the city where I live, and the capital of Romania. The question that may arise after this statement is: Why do I want to see foreign tourists? If there is a question, there must be an answer... Bucharest is the former capital of a closed, isolated, and little-visited communist country, and foreign tourists are increasingly seeking it out. When I say I go downtown to see the tourists, I exaggerate a bit. The truth is that I went there out of necessity, and I met a lot of tourists in a place called Old Center. It is an unhealthy old neighborhood, where old and abandoned houses have been transformed into restaurants, terraces, cafes, and nightclubs. It is a real attraction for those who want to have fun. Of course, there are special places to visit, such as museums, and my presence in that place was precisely to visit several exhibitions gathered under the name Art Safari, hosted by a nearby palace. Just across the stre