Many problems put together at the same time can change even the strongest habits. When I say many, I mean old and unresolved issues as well as new issues that can only prove to me that the way I approach my existence now is not the right way. I meant, in fact, that I have only managed to leave home for unpleasant destinations that cannot be called a walk at all.
So for this week, I will show a short walk very close to home, in the park that always saves me in such situations.
The park I will tell you about, more in pictures is called Bazilescu.
Bazilescu Park (formerly Nicolae Bălcescu Park) is a park located in the north-western part of Bucharest, in the district of Bucureștii Noi, currently covering an area of 13.5 hectares. At the time of its creation (1954), the park covered an area of 120 ha. It is currently registered with 125,400 m². The land on which the park was built was donated to the Romanian state by lawyer and university professor Nicolae Bazilescu. In 2004, the City Hall of Sector 1 invested more than 1 million euros in the park's development and there are also some old trees in the park, remains of the Codrilor Vlăsiei.
Inside the park is the Summer Theatre, built-in 1953 and inaugurated on the occasion of the World Festival of Youth and Students, with a capacity of 2000 seats. Today the theatre, under the administration of the Ministry of Culture, is in an advanced state of decay.
In Bazilescu Park there is also the Children's Club Sector 1 - Bazilescu, where schoolchildren can go to different educational circles: music, theatre, rhythmic gymnastics, English, civic education, rugby.
After letting Wikipedia tell what it knows, I'm going to tell you my story as it blends with that of the park. The street on which I live spills onto this street that borders the park.
Three minutes and I'm in the park. It's wonderful, even though I often forget that when I think all good things are mine...
This is a neighborhood park. Surrounded by fencing and bordered by streets and an avenue. It looks like a bigger garden and I don't like that, it doesn't give me the feeling of free nature. Maybe because it doesn't have a lake. Many don't notice these shortcomings or are not as carny as me and are content to walk their dogs, children, wives, or rest on their favorite bench, drinking coffee by the bottle (with a little alcohol, of course) and feeding the pigeons.
In the middle of the park, instead of a small lake or pond, they built a summer theatre about 70 years ago. Now it's a ruin. The authorities promise a renovation, but it has been postponed for twenty years.
The park is small and from any point, from any alley, this building is visible. Built-in neoclassical style, I like the way it looks, especially the columns, which are more visible now that the trees are leafless.
I don't usually see much sky from the park. I'm glad I can see it now because the trees are still leafless. In summer I'm glad there are leaves and shade and coolness.
Dogs also have their own exclusive area, a bit too big, in my opinion.
Unlike dogs, birds are the absolute masters of the park. Pigeons and crows.
It was an extremely beautiful day with a maximum temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. That's bizarre because it should be full-on winter by now. For the first time in my life, I have not seen snow until this moment and I have no hope for the future. Traditionally winter ends in March.
Instead of snow, we got tree shadows.
Most of the trees are those that lose their leaves in autumn. Only a few pines save the honor of the evergreens.
On one side of the park, there is a building that will be demolished because small blocks will be built. I like the old building, especially the pottery roof and a chimney made of brick. I would have liked at least the chimney to remain, as a reminder of the past.
I could show you more of this park but I think it's too much and I don't want to bore you. I want because at the beginning I showed the fence of the park facing the street where I live, towards the neighborhood of houses, that now I show you the edge of the park from the boulevard. The boulevard is called Bucurestii Noi. I forgot to say that this park is in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
I took the photos on the fly, without much attention to quality, I wanted it to be more like reportage, with photos taken instantly. At the same time I know that this challenge or contest, this community puts a premium on the quality of the photos, in fact, it is @tattodjay's wish. At the end I put some photos I took for the sake of photography, not the subject of the post.
I'll say it again and again, I've found that my main activity lately is... walking. Like all of you, I love to walk, but only now I have realized that walking has become my main mode of relaxation. Slowly, slowly overtaking the other pleasures I still have.
For #WednesdayWalk by @tattoodjay
I do like you feel a park is better if it has a pond/Lake or river, some water feature, that theathe would add to the park if it was ever restored but if it twenty years nothing has happened i guess no one has hopes that it will be restored
Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)
I have a nostalgia for water..., lakes, rivers but especially the sea. There are some lakes nearby but now they are hard to access because there are so many properties around them and I don't have access.
I think we are in tune that way I love walks bu the water but especially by the sea
There are a couple of lakes I have headed to bear here to check out but they were surrounded by private properties with no across
Have a great weekend which was frustrating
I'm sure we are similar in our enjoyment of walking, especially by the sea.
Have a great day
Thank you, the same for you!
Cheers
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This is a small park? I am so used in Athens where parks are really small and rare to find, endangered species... So, this one looks pretty nice to me! Great luck to have one so close to your house, only 3 minutes walk, amazing!
I know Markos would like it, but he would think that the dog area is too small, haha!
I hope that things will get better very soon! And you will be going out of the house for the best reasons!
I didn't know that there weren't enough parks in Athens. I wonder what it was like to go from living in such a crowded city to living in the small village on the island.
Markos certainly wouldn't be happy with the park, there would probably be too many confusing smells...
Almost no parks at all! Athens is a very inhuman capital city. Of course it has other beauties and a chaotic charming character! The city center luckily has two big gardens and two wonderful hills, but what about all the other neighborhoods? You would be surprised how intense the lack of green is in Athens... Adn you would consider yourself very lucky and this park huge and beautiful, haha!
It felt surprisingly natural to be here. I guess the timing is important. A few years before we actually moved I wouldn't have thought of living here! Crazy how things change and how we move on in life sometimes!
Markos is always excited to be in a city park, although it is indeed overwhelming :)
The sins of big cities, big crowds of people... For various reasons, I have not traveled abroad at an age when travel is easy and curiosity is high. I would have liked to visit London, Paris, Rome, Athens... Now I don't. It's probably somewhat similar to you leaving the city. I like it in Thassos, in Limenaria where we are going, because I see people's life, simple and small as ours is but we have to learn from the Greek way of life, which suits me. Since high school, my favorite song was Deep Purple's Lazy. I don't mean in any way that Greeks, from what I have seen, are lazy. But I like that there is a kind of respect for rest, for meditation (the great philosophers...).
Me, when I wondered about your move I thought how it was in the first days, weeks until you got used to the change.
I'm so glad you're enjoying your stay in the village and I must say your olive orchard looks wonderful!
I have also changed the way I (dream to) travel! Not Paris, but some small villages and the vineyards at the South etc...
This is one of my favorite stories! I was very cool with moving, not anxious at all, and the last two days I freaked out! What am I going to do, I will get bored, there's nothing there, I don't have friends... So I started dowloading movies and organising my books like crazy!
6 months after, I had read no book and we had seen half of a movie because we fell asleep :) We were so tired physically, since from the beginning we started working on an abandoned field (a great failure and a great lesson!) and so excited at the same time, that we had no time to get bored, not even to think!
Yes, exactly. That's where I'd like to go.
Very nice story about moving to the island. I would have been stressed from day one. It was good for you, and I can see it's even better now. Obviously, there were mistakes, best to learn from mistakes, even if it is painful.
There are always mistakes! Another important lesson in those first attempts was that when it comes to nature, a mistake can take a whole year to be fixed. Patience!
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