Photos from Bucharest

I ran the first day of the Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclass in Bucharest today, we had around twenty delegates who were a mix of Oracle staff, partners and customers.

After the seminar finished, I took a walk down from the venue to the historic part of Bucharest. I can see why Bucharest is called the "Paris of the East" - it's got some fantastic architecture and at least, where I was walking through, some beautifully preserved old churches and historic buildings.

This one was just around the corner from the venue.

A bit further down the road, towards the city centre.

Some lovely old churches as well.

This looked like a rather important-looking miltary building.

There was also a fair bit of monumental-size big civic buildings, such as this one.

The building I was most interested in seeing though, was the famous "Palace of the Parliament". In actual fact, it turned out to be a bit smaller than I expected, if only because I was sort of expecting an absolutely huge building, in the end it was just very very large - I'd been walking at this point for just over an hour (with my laptop in my bag, clever move) so I didn't venture around it, but I got a few photos of the palace and the surrounding area, which was all pretty impressive.

Anyway, I've uploaded the photos to Flickr, take a look if you're interested. I have to say I was pretty impressed with my short stroll around the city, it's got some lovely historic old buildings and so far, it's managed to hold on to a lot of its history. Very nice.