Sinaia snippets

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

   Greetings from Sinaia, Romania.
   I'm staying at the Palace Hotel--mentioned by Agatha Christie in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (I'm told).  At dinner, the lights flickered for a second.  Fortunately, no one was murdered.
   Tomorrow I go to Bran Castle ("Dracula" castle)...I'm roomming with Romanian female gymnasts, but this rating system is killing me...Nah, I made that last part up.

--------------------------------------------------------
HELLO, BUDAPEST!

   This is a Romanian famous quotation that Fred Shapiro should be able to find easily on NEXIS.
   The People's Palace in Bucharest (which I saw two days ago) is an impressive structure, supposedly the second-largest building after the Pentagon.  The new government wanted to show it off Romanian pride to a famous man-of-the-world.
   Michael Jackson addressed the Bucharest masses with the greeting:
   "HELLO, BUDAPEST!"

--------------------------------------------------------
RESTAURANT PALACE SINAIA

   The hotel restaurant offers:

Bulgarian Salad
Serbian Chicken with Rice
Beef Steak "Cazino"
Poolchicken
Romanian Sour Soup with Beef
Sausages "Cabanos"
Roes from Manciuria (caviar rouge)