Bucharest

You could eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here and still want to come back for more after you've been clubbing downstairs at Control (and indeed you can: it stays open late at the weekend to serve pizza to the post-club crowd). The English breakfast omelette, French onion soup and Chupacabra (ideal for sharing) are our regular picks of the menu, but there is so much more to choose from you really will need to come more than once. And we have yet to mention the meringue cake with berries, or the ...

Construction of Bucharest and Romania’s most famous building, Palatul Parlamentului ie the Palace of Parliament (known locally as Casa Poporului ie the People's House) began in 1984, and continued through what were the darkest days of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime. Standing 84m above ground level on 12 floors, the building has long been shrouded in mystery, rumour and hyperbole. Exterior of the famous Parliament Palace or Casa Poporului in Bucharest, Romania © Dennis Jarvis / CC-2.0 Originall...