Saturday, August 12th, 2006 - Tineretului Park

This is a huge park, south of the city centre. Before the park, the area was slum land inhabited by 700,00 people. Ceausescu decided he wanted a park, and so nearly three quarters of a million people were kicked out of their homes and replaced with one of the cities most unremarkable, vacuous spaces.

I think it was created in the late 70's/early 80's and it's very eastern bloc. Loads of metal rockets that look like rejects from Flash Gordon and some of the lamest robot creations ever seen. I mean if you're going to design a robot from the future don't make it look like you made it from an egg box head and washing up bottle arms. Ironically, to see these creations is probably the only reason to go there now. When I was there it was virtually empty, it's huge centrepiece lake void of activity and the communist blocks looming up over the trees.