Well… here we are! the 5 of us 
We spent a nice time together and saw so many wonderful things. It was a great weekend and Alex, my wife Marlies, and myself, Nahunte, would very much like to thank the aborigines, Brendi and Markus the Romanian (alias Matei Romanu’), for their hospitality. Kisses to you, guys!
“The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple sources, in an eclectic neoclassical architectural style. It measures 270 m by 240 m, 86 m high, and 92 m under ground. It has 1,100 rooms and is 12 stories tall, with four additional underground levels currently available and in use, with another four in different stages of completion. The building is constructed entirely of materials of Romanian origin. Estimates of the materials used include one million cubic meters of marble from Transylvania, most from Ruşchiţa; 3,500 tonnes of crystal – 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured; 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals; 900,000 m³ of wood for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore maple; 200,000 m² of woolen carpets of various dimensions (machines had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets); velvet and brocade curtains adorned with embroideries and passementeries in silver and gold. Constructing the Palace and Centrul Civic required demolishing much of Bucharest’s historic districts, including two neighborhoods with 19 Orthodox Christian churches, 6 synagogues and Jewish temples, 3 Protestant churches (plus eight relocated churches), and 30,000 homes. “
It was Alex’ wish to go there the first day. We visited “it” and fainted. It is amazingly big and sort of strange, but in the positive sense of the word. For Brendi and for me, it means more than the world’s second largest building… but we could not figure out how much more.
