Primavara

I hardly dare write this in fear I'm going to jinx something, but I think spring might actually be settling in here in Bucharest!

So yes, it did snow last Friday (which I missed due to a flight to Rome!), but it's gone and the sun is out and we have highs of 50 degrees forecasted this week. So I'm operating under the assumption that it's going to stay this way for a while.

I've been doing a bit of traveling the past few weekends. I went to Cluj, a long night-train ride northwest of Bucharest, and spent a nice weekend watching Hungarian opera with Romanian supertitles and eating sushi. The trip to Rome probably deserves an entry all its own, so sit tight on that.

I don't have any plans for more traveling until Melissa gets here in three weeks. Until then I plan to do all the things in Bucharest that I've been meaning to do for five months but haven't gotten around to, including going to the opera and the Peasant Museum, eating a burger at the American Sports Bar in the Marriott, and going ice skating in Cismigiu Park (if Spring allows).