Bucharest - Sunday 7th October

Well a month today is the official "return" date, so time to start checking on the details at work.

Today started with the Grand Prix, and a disappointing result for Lewis Hamilton but at least that means an interesting finish to the season.

Outside it was another gloomy looking day and I set off for a further tour of Herastrau Park with fingers crossed and "Plan B" being to head for the Metro if it started raining.

It was a little cool but the park was still fairly busy and I had my first sighting of the Red Squirrel. Probably not much smaller in length terms than the Grey that is so familiar in my garden back home but decidedly slighter in build, and with fantastic "tufty" ears!

I exited the park at the North end of the Herastrau Lake next to the "Free Press Palace", which not surprisingly is home to most of the newspapers and also used to house the state television service. From here I had a walk around the outside of the RomExpo site and back towards home via the athletics stadium and the national rugby stadium. Both "stadiums" are very small and easily missed from the main road.

Home for tea and to prepare for a trip to an Ursus hostelry for the rugby/football in the evening.

Four more weekends to plan, four and a bit weeks to complete at least six months of work!