The ‘Little Paris’ - More Than Meets the Eye!, Bucharest, Romania

My worst travel experience ever (apart from having practically everything stolen off me in Liverpool) was the first 12 hours of my trip to Romania. It all began when I arrived at Bucharest Airport as my flight’s luggage was placed on SIX different carousels on TWO different floors and I had to go rushing up and down stairs to try and find my suitcase.

Once found and my rental car settled, my next issue was trying to find the Airbnb apartment I was booked at. According to Google Maps, I was at the right location but it was only after an extremely frustrating time of walking up and down, shaking my head and finally sharing my location with the owner did I realise that I was at the back entrance of the apartment block instead of at the front! Oh, and I forgot to mention that before this, I had to go and collect the keys to the apartment from a hair salon. Obviously, since this was my worst travel nightmare ever, I had been given the wrong name of the salon by the apartment owner! Go figure!

My last traumatic episode was when I was rudely woken up in the middle of the night by an urgent need to go to the bathroom, something that never really happens to me! When done, I felt extremely nauseous and dizzy. As fate would have it, I never made it back to the bedroom and ended up fainting in the landing. I never knew I had lost consciousness, but I when I came to, I found myself sprawled on the landing floor with a broken watch and several bruises to various parts of my body! Thank God, the floor was made of wood and not tiles! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).